Events

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)

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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)

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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)

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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 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 Sep 28

States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte

Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Jan 02 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, University Research Gallery, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Immerse yourself in the world of printmaking, tracing how artists move step by step to painstakingly rework and refine their images. Spanning more than three centuries, the works in this exhibition—by artists such as Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Lee Krasner, Jacques Philippe Le Bas, and Louis Delsarte—unveil the layers of creative revision, correction, and adjustment behind finished prints.

Important: Advance...

2021 Sep 28

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970

Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Jan 16 2022 .

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, Special Exhibitions Gallery, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Explore the impacts of military activity on the American landscape—and the ways in which photography supports activism in response to these effects.

Important: Advance tickets are required to visit the exhibition in-person.

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2021 Sep 04

Reopening Day at the Harvard Art Museums

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Join us for the public reopening of the Harvard Art Museums on Saturday, September 4!

Begin in our Calderwood Courtyard before venturing into the galleries to enjoy three levels of art, spanning ancient to modern times. See the exhibitions “States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte” and “A Colloquium in the Visual Arts.” And don’t forget to stop by the museum shop, just off the courtyard, to round out your visit.

Our new ReFrame initiative, which reimagines the function, role, and future of the university art museum, introduces new artworks to many of our...

2020 May 30

Virtual Student Guide Tour: “The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro

11:00am to 11:30am

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Online Event

Paul Tamburro ’21 will explore distinctions between art and everyday objects and the relationship between art and mass production.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “The Art of the Everyday,” with Paul Tamburro

2020 May 28

Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek

12:00pm to 12:30pm

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Online Event

Mei Tercek ’21 will consider how decay can be a destructive and revitalizing force in art, focusing on several works from the collections.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Decay and Regeneration,” with Mei Tercek

2020 May 26

Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton

8:00pm to 8:30pm

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Online Event

Gavin Moulton ’20 will explore the theme of architecture as art in a discussion focused on several works in the collections spanning a thousand years of art history.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: “Architecture as Art,” with Gavin Moulton

2020 May 25

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Celebrating the Class of 2020

4:00pm to 5:00pm

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Online Event

Emilė Radytė, May Wan, Gavin Moulton, and Tommy Mahon, our Ho Family Student Guides from the Harvard Class of 2020, will share their favorite artworks from the Harvard Art Museums collections in this special, celebratory tour.

Learn more about Virtual Student Guide Tour: Celebrating the Class of 2020

2020 Mar 17

Exhibition: Everyday Encounters

Tue Mar 17 (All day) to Thu May 7 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Harvard’s Mittal Institute 2020 Visiting Artist Fellows Shah Numair Ahmed Abbasi and Suhasini Kejriwal present their exhibition, Everyday Encounters. Reflecting on their personal accounts of documenting and engaging with rapidly changing South Asian cities and their people, the artists’ work explores the deeply personal issues of identity and culture in this region.

Learn more about Exhibition: Everyday Encounters.

2020 Mar 07

Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Harvard’s Early Endeavors in Oceanic Anthropology

Sat Mar 7 (All day) to Sun Mar 7 (All day)

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

This exhibit explores how early Harvard scholars influenced the development of anthropology and archaeology in the Pacific region. Produced in collaboration with over thirty other museums around the world, Harvard’s contributing exhibit will feature historical images and objects from the Peabody collections, including intricately carved Fijian clubs, models of distinctive Pacific outriggers, and a striking example of Samoan bark cloth (siapo). Together they weave a compelling narrative about the ideas, people, and networks pivotal to both early understandings and ongoing studies...

2020 Feb 29

Dig into Dinner

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Explore the new Resetting the Table exhibition, starting at the dinner table set for a party. Family-friendly activities about what we eat will be set up throughout the gallery: drop in for smell stations, Play-Doh® desserts, games with prizes, and a raffle of dinner for two at a Harvard Square restaurant.

Learn more about Dig into Dinner.

Exhibition Reception: PARTLY CLOUDY

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Ed Portal, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Join the Harvard Ed Portal for an exhibition reception for PARTLY CLOUDY.

Chris Sageman’s artwork revolves around the overwhelming and the confusing. In assembling segments of text, images, and abstract graphics, Sageman creates large-scale paintings that reflect the volume of visual information we consume on a daily basis. In PARTLY CLOUDY, Sageman presents a series of paintings that diagram our current moment. By isolating fractions of imagery in each diagram, the paintings serve as disjointed road maps that try to make sense of all the bits and pieces and...

2020 Feb 14

Exhibition: Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection

Fri Feb 14 (All day) to Sun Jul 26 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Painting Edo—one of the largest exhibitions ever presented at the Harvard Art Museums—offers a window onto the supremely rich visual culture of Japan’s early modern era. Selected from the unparalleled collection of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, the more than 120 works in the exhibition connect visitors with a seminal moment in the history of Japan, as the country settled into an era of peace under the warrior government of the shoguns and opened its doors to greater engagement with the outside world. The dizzying array of artistic lineages and studios active during the Edo...

2020 Feb 13

Opening Lecture: Painting Edo

6:00pm to 7:15pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

As part of the Harvard Art Museums' opening celebration for Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection, SOAS University of London art history professor Timon Screech will present "Into the Kaleidoscope: Painting in Edo Japan."

Tickets are required for the lecture and may be acquired in person, by phone, or online for a small fee through the Harvard Box Office. Limit of two tickets per person.

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