Events

2022 Apr 12

In-Person Exhibition Tour: White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join curator Lynette Roth and artist T. Deutch for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.

German artist Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close...

2022 Apr 10

Screening: Maidan

7:00pm to 9:10pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

As the unjust war against Ukraine rages, the Harvard Film Archive offers Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa’s powerful portrait of popular resistance as a means to reflect on the deeper history of the war, and as a tribute to the courage of a nation that has long been in the geopolitical crosshairs.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders

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In-Person Gallery Talk: Art and Human Health—An Evolutionary Perspective

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join Ben Sibson, a graduate student at Harvard in human evolutionary biology, for a conversation about how art can enhance our understanding of the evolution of human health. Looking at works of art installed in the University Study Gallery this semester for the undergraduate course Human Evolution and Human Health, Sibson will show how the objects provide useful information about the physical activities performed by people across time and space, as well as the foods they ate, the clothes they wore, and the spaces where they lived.

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2022 Apr 04

Thursday Till Sunday

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Sotomayor's celebrated debut feature follows a young family on a road trip, of which the final destination remains ambiguous. Told largely from the point of view of ten-year-old Lucia as she observes the world unfolding before her and intuits her parents’ fraying relationship, Thursday Till Sunday avoids over-narrativization by focusing upon those in-between spaces and non-events noticed by the young girl.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders

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Screening: The Blue Eyes of Yonta

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Gomes' second film is a bold follow-up to Mortu Nega that extends its critical scrutiny of post-liberation Guinea-Bissau through a poignantly nuanced story of ardent dreams fractured across different generations. The eponymous heroine of The Blue Eyes of Yonta is a spirited young woman smitten with an old family friend, a hero of the revolution falling on hard times as he struggles to keep his business afloat and stay true to his ideals despite the corrosive pressures of the black market.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors...

2022 Apr 02

Screening: The Children's Republic

3:00pm to 4:20pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

In a post-war civilization run by children, director Flora Gomes explores concepts of symbolism and magical realism to tell the tale of a utopian society and its young inhabitants. The Children’s Republic sheds light on an era of national liberation and harmony, where only children—aside from Dubem the advisor, played by Danny Glover—are left to seek peace and redemption from the death and destruction of their nation's lingering past.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders

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2022 Apr 01

Hale County This Morning, This Evening with RaMell Ross in Person

7:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

Evolving from his large-format photographs—the same medium of Walker Evans and William Christenberry who also famously focused their lenses on rural Hale County, Alabama—Ross walks a multi-dimensional path both alongside and away from these artistic predecessors. As suns set and moons rise and eclipse, Ross’ camera moves fluidly in and out of invisibility and interaction, capturing moments miniscule and monumental, quotidian and otherworldly, with the same curious, clear eye.

Cost: $15 (free for Harvard ID holders)

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2022 Mar 27

Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave. & Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Special In-Person Family Event! Free with Museum Admission; Admissions Reservation Required.

Experience an epic day of archaeological events with the family! Activities are scattered across two museums so explore Native North American, Central American, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Mediterranean archaeology. Throw a spear with a spear thrower. Talk to student archaeologists who excavate in locations around the world.

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2022 Mar 03

500 Years of Women Authors, Authorizing Themselves

Repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday until Fri Mar 11 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Amy Lowell Room (2nd Floor), Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Let us introduce you to some of the most infamous female authors you’ve never heard of who carved out cultural spaces for themselves. Our challenge to you: Remember their names. Share their stories. Rewrite history.

Highlights include:

A copy of Phillis Wheatley's collection of poems autographed by the author
A mysterious ownership inscription by a medieval woman named "Johanna" in a copy of Jerome's Vitas Patrum
Mary Wroth's copy of Xenophon's Cyropaedia, bearing her cryptic monogram...

2022 Feb 26

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra Concert 3 (Season 214)

8:00pm to 10:00pm

Location:

Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 45 Quincy St., Cambridge

In the third concert of our 214th season, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will be premiering the third movement of Hannah Lash’s Forestallings in celebration of our conductor Federico Cortese’s 10th anniversary with the orchestra.

Dr. Lash is a 2010 PhD alumnus of Harvard who is now a faculty member and conductor at the Yale School of Music. We will also be playing Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, featuring concerto competition winner Kevin Miura ‘25, and Kodaly’s Peacock Variations, featuring assistant conductor Camden Archambeau ‘23. Kevin was the junior 2nd place winner of the...

2022 Feb 01

Clay—Modeling African Design

Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Sun Nov 13 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

On View:
November 17, 2018–November 13, 2022
University Collections Gallery, African Art, Harvard Art Museums

This exhibition highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. Countering the assumption that African arts and societies are largely unchanging and bound to traditions and customs, the remarkable diversity of objects and styles on display here tells a different story. A selection of more than 50 works on loan from the...

2022 Feb 01

Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World

Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Wed Feb 1 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Mediterranean Marketplaces: Connecting the Ancient World explores how the movement of goods, peoples, and ideas around the ancient Mediterranean transformed the lives and livelihoods of people at all levels of society, driving innovations that had lasting impacts—even on the modern world.

Make an advance reservation to visit the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

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2022 Feb 01

Muchos Méxicos: Crossroads of the Americas

Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Thu Feb 2 (All day)

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 1 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Muchos Méxicos explores Mexico’s rich history as a site of human innovation, creativity and cultural diversity. Featuring Mexican objects from the Peabody Museum collections, this bilingual exhibit tells the story of Mexico as a multicultural and geographic crossroads—one where the exchange of resources, products, and ideas among Indigenous peoples throughout the Americas before the Spanish invasion, and then with cultures around the globe—have all created a vibrant nation.

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2022 Feb 01

From the Hands of the Makers

Tue Feb 1 (All day) to Thu Feb 2 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

Over their fifty years creating the Glass Flowers, Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, father and son, continually experimented with materials and methods that pushed the boundaries of glassworking. Years later, their complex and varied practices presented unique challenges for the conservators preserving and protecting the models, which led to a suite of conservation processes nearly as varied as the Blaschka’s techniques. From the Hands of the Makers explores what it takes to both make and conserve a model and investigates the lingering mysteries surrounding the making of the glass...

2022 Jan 22

Himalayan Art: Art of the Divine Abode

Sat Jan 22 (All day) to Sun May 8 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

On View:
January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022
University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Drawn from the museums’ rich Asian art collections, this installation complements a Harvard undergraduate course that explores the art of the Himalayan region, focusing on the major cultural centers such as the Kathmandu Valley and Buddhist sites across the Tibetan plateau, while examining the history of reception and imagination of the Himalayas in the west. The course is taught by Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art. In...

2022 Jan 22

Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs

Sat Jan 22 (All day) to Sun May 8 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

On View:
January 22, 2022–May 8, 2022
University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

From swaddling newborns to enshrouding the deceased, woven fabrics touch nearly every aspect of human existence. The textiles in this exhibition are particularly meaningful, for they tell a bigger story about political and social power, class, trade, and concerns for the afterlife during a transformative period in Egyptian history. In the medieval era, control of the region shifted repeatedly, as Egypt was subsumed under a sequence of empires—Byzantine,...

2021 Nov 07

Handel's Italy

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Harvard Memorial Church, 1 Harvard Yard, Cambridge

A selection of works celebrating Handel's time in Italy! We’re thrilled to return to the Memorial Church Sanctuary with this joyful program on the other side of the pandemic year. Featuring Benjamin P. Wenzelberg and Phoebe Carrai.

Handel: Selections from Rodrigo
Handel: Selected arias
Porpora: Cello concerto
Dall' Abaco: Concerto Grosso in D Major
Porpora: Selected arias

Free and open to the public. All attendees must be masked and will be asked to present either their Harvard ID at the door, or to show proof of vaccination, or to show a proof of...

Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead Commemoration (at the Peabody Museum)

5:15pm to 7:15pm

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 1 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Stop by the Peabody Museum for a short moment of personal reflection on the past year which brought losses to so many. The front steps of the museum will be set up as a simple outdoor altar and staff will distribute lighted candles to visitors in observance of those we have lost. Pause and remember as you place your candle in our community display. Post a Message of Love to our online Virtual Altar before attending. And join us next year when our annual fiesta returns to the Peabody galleries! Rain or...

2021 Oct 14

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Portrait

Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Apr 17 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, Modern and Contemporary Art, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Explore the state of democracy today through a commissioned artwork by internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, presented at the Harvard Art Museums in partnership with the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Pre-recorded video interviews capturing voices and opinions from across the political spectrum will activate the Harvard Art Museums’ iconic portrait of George Washington (c. 1795) by Gilbert Stuart, fostering an exchange of views and responses at this time of heightened political division.

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2021 Oct 08

Bach Society Orchestra Presents: 2021-2022 Season Premiere

8:00pm to 9:30pm

Location:

Paine Hall (Harvard Music Building), 3 Oxford St., Cambridge

The Bach Society Orchestra, Harvard's premiere undergraduate chamber orchestra, kicks off its 2021-2022 Season with our first concert of the fall on Friday, October 8th, 2021. Reserve your free tickets now for this wonderful musical celebration!

Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major
Manuel de Falla's El Sombrero de Tres Picos, Suite 1
Gabriel Faure's Pélleas et Mélisande Suite.

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