Events

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 04

Virtual Student Guide Tour: This Land Is Whose Land?, with Jacqueline Zoeller

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

On this tour commemorating Native American Heritage Month, Jacqueline Zoeller ’23 will contrast colonial visions of the Western U.S. landscape, such as Albert Bierstadt’s Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863), with the realities lived and portrayed by Native American artists. Stops on the tour will include Diné artist Will Wilson’s Mexican Hat Disposal Cell (2020), a landscape photograph of Halchita, Utah, the Navajo...

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 05

Artist Panel: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this virtual panel discussion, curator Makeda Best will be in conversation with photographers Terry Evans, Ashley Gilbertson, and Will Wilson, each of whom has works in our latest special exhibition, Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970.

Learn more about and RSVP for this...

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 22

Muchos Méxicos: Virtual Exhibition Preview and Conversation

6:00pm to 7:15pm

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online

Join us for a virtual preview and conversation about the Muchos Méxicos exhibition! Three scholars who contributed to the making of the show will discuss their favorite objects, and how they each tell stories of exchange and innovation—as well as loss and perseverance—across time and space.

Live interpretation available in English and Spanish.

Learn more about and RSVP for this virtual event.

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...

2021 Aug 02

Sharks: Streamlined Swimmers (Virtual Exhibit)

Mon Aug 2 (All day) to Fri Dec 31 (All day)

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Sharks are some of the oldest and, from an evolutionary perspective, some of the most successful marine vertebrates ever to have lived. They have spent their entire evolutionary history in the aquatic environment, and the body design in many species has been honed over hundreds of millions of years to increase swimming performance. Learn how body form, fins and even the skin, work in concert, enabling sharks to slice through water and execute complex maneuvers with startling speed and precision.

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2021 Feb 03

Virtual Harvard Staff Art Show Launch Party

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard—Online

Join us for the launch of the Virtual Harvard Staff Art Show! This show spotlights the creative endeavors of staff across the University, with over 280 artworks by artists from almost every Harvard School and unit.

Although our new virtual work environments have kept us physically separated this last year, they have also made it possible to showcase these talents in a new way. Sculpture, paintings, musical performances, fashion design, and more all await you at the Virtual Harvard Staff Art Show. Attend the Launch Party and celebrate the artistic side of Harvard staff,...

2020 Dec 05

Student Guide Tour: Transcendence—A Guide on How to Escape Your Current Reality, with Franklin Hang

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Online Event

Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!

Franklin Hang ’21 explores how artistic periods and traditions have had an impact on the world in ways that exceed bodily limitations. He will lead an interactive discussion of a portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, Emperor Napoleon I by Jacques-Louis David, ...

2020 Dec 01

Painting Edo at the Arnold Arboretum: Japanese Black Pine

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Painting Edo at the Arnold Arboretum is a collaboration between the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and the Harvard Art Museums, inspired by the exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection. Observing artworks from the exhibition alongside the living collections of the Arnold Arboretum, we invite you to marvel at the remarkable accuracy and spirit with which artists of the Edo period (1615–1868) rendered their botanical...

2020 Nov 20

HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women

Fri Nov 20 (All day) to Thu Dec 31 (All day)

Location:

Online Event

Virtual experiences connect the collections of the four Harvard Museums of Science & Culture. In HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women, go behind the scenes with women in academia while listening to the HMSC Connects! Podcast, discovering women’s work, Story Time videos, and coloring pages.

Learn more about HMSC Connects! Celebrating Women

2020 Oct 31

Visit An Artist: En Iwamura

10:00am to 11:00am

Location:

Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online

We are off to Japan to visit with the incredibly prolific sculptor En Iwamura!

En Iwamura's current research investigates how he can influence and alter the experience of viewers who occupy space with his installation artworks. When Iwamura describes the space and scale in his works, he references the Japanese philosophy of Ma. Ma implies meanings of distance, moment, space, relationship, and more. People constantly read and measure different Ma between themselves, and finding the proper or comfortable Ma between people or places can provide a specific relationship at a...

2020 Oct 30

Visit an Artist: Brad Schwieger

4:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online

We're off to Ohio to visit the studio of master potter and sculptor Brad Schwieger. During this one-hour studio visit, Brad will discuss his...

2020 Oct 16

Visit an Artist and Demonstration: Mac McCusker

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online

During this visit we travel to Durham, North Carolina to visit with figurative sculptor Mac McCusker and view a demonstration of his work. Mac McCusker’s figurative work and narrative vessels document personal experiences and struggles as a transgender artist. McCusker addresses preconceptions and prejudices about transgender and gender non-binary individuals as well as about the larger LGBTQIA community by sharing personal narratives through self-portrait busts, small-scale figures, and sculptural vessels.

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2020 Oct 12

Listening to Wampanoag Voices: Beyond 1620

Mon Oct 12 (All day) to Sat Oct 31 (All day)

Location:

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology—Online

Four hundred years have passed since the Wampanoag Nation encountered English immigrants who settled on the shores of their land at Patuxet—now called Plymouth. Harvard University has had a relationship with the Wampanoag and other local tribal communities for nearly as long, establishing the Harvard Indian College on campus in 1655. In acknowledgment of this early history, the Peabody Museum has asked Wampanoag tribal members to reflect on collections spanning...

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