Events

2021 Jun 24

Virtual Student Guide Tour: World in a Vessel

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Kaitlin Hao ’21 explores how three historical vessels bring us into the worlds that created them, along with their legacies and their sense of the world yet to come.

First, she will discuss a ritual food vessel made in China in the 11th or 10 century BCE. She will then turn to a stoneware storage jar by David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, an enslaved Black man in antebellum South Carolina. And finally, she will take a...

2021 Jun 19

Virtual Student Guide Tour: White/Hammons/Marshall

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Both David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall consider their time as students of Charles White at the Otis Art Institute in the 1960s and ’70s as an important experience for them as young Black men and artists.

On this tour coinciding with Juneteenth, Maeve Miller ’22 and Cecilia Zhou ’22 will talk about a work by each of these artists: White’s linocut print of blues icon Bessie Smith (1950); Hammons’s Untitled [Body Print] (1974), which he made partly by...

2021 Jun 19

In the Groves

5:30pm to 7:30pm

Location:

Arnold Arboretum, 125 Arborway, Boston

Immerse yourself in the deep beauty of trees in this story and music journey through the Arboretum. Led by Oracle award-winning storyteller Diane Edgecomb and Celtic harper Margot Chamberlain, this unfolding performance of ancient tales and songs from cultures around the world takes place in a variety of groves—birch, cherry, and evergreen—at some of the Arboretum’s loveliest spots.

This event is free, but registration is required and limited. Not designed for children under 12, and dogs are not allowed. COVID guidelines will be followed.

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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Staged, with Maeve Miller

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In her tour, Maeve Miller ’22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years after the heyday of his involvement with the Expressionist art movement; the painting Ventriloquist (1952), which Jacob Lawrence made in Harlem, New York, as part of his Performance Series; and a woodblock print...

2021 Jun 09

Virtual Glass Flowers Tour

6:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Join us for a virtual tour of the famous Glass Flowers! This docent-led tour will delve into the history, artistry, and significance of the collection and give participants the opportunity to explore the gallery online. These interactive tours are approximately one hour long, and offer time for questions and discussion with your tour guide.

Cost: $8 members, $10 nonmembers

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2021 Jun 02

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Making Faces, with Cecilia Zhou

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Student Guide Cecilia Zhou’s art-inspired makeup tutorials have appeared on the social media channels of the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this tour, she will spend time with three paintings that inspired her: the 20th-century Head of a Woman by Russian Expressionist Alexei von Jawlensky, the 3rd-century Egyptian ...

2021 May 22

Spring Bird Walk

8:00am to 9:30am

Location:

Peters Hill Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Boston

Join three experienced birders for a 90-minute walk suitable for beginners and experienced birders alike. Meet at the Peters Hill Gate for this walk in the landscape to see Arboretum birds. Space is limited to 30 and the group will be divided into three sections. COVID-19 guidelines of masks and social distancing will be required. Bring binoculars if you have them.

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Glass Flowers Tours – The Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass Models of Plants

6:00pm to 7:10pm

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online

Join us for a virtual tour of the famous Glass Flowers! This docent-led tour will delve into the history, artistry, and significance of the collection and give participants the opportunity to explore the gallery online. These interactive tours are approximately one-hour in length, and offer time for Q&A with your tour guide.

Cost: $8 for members, $10 for nonmembers.

2021 May 11

A Season of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum

1:00pm

Location:

Arnold Arboretum—Online

Lilacs come in a wide range of color, size, flower form, and leaf. Arnold Arboretum docent Chris McArdle will take you on a free, virtual tour of many of these varieties, by way of images from the actual plants in our landscape. From her long years of experience in the lilac collection, and as a docent, she will introduce you to many fascinating histories, anecdotes, as well as the people instrumental in bringing us these much-anticipated May bloomers. From their 17th century beginning in North America, up to some fabulous present-day cultivars, you will experience the breadth of our...

2021 Apr 17

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Climate Change, with Sophia Mautz

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Sophia Mautz ’21 illuminates our unfolding climate crisis in her tour focused on three works of art: a 14th-century handscroll painting from Japan, Earthquake from the Legendary History of the Jin’o-ji; a photograph from 1978 by American artist Ana Mendieta, Untitled [filueta grass mound burnt with a cast iron hand, Iowa]; and ...

2021 Apr 16

Resetting the Table: A Virtual Talk and Tour with the Curators

2:00pm to 3:00pm

Location:

Food Literacy Project—Online

The "Resetting the Table: Food and Our Changing Tastes" exhibition at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology explores food choices and eating habits in the United States, including the sometimes hidden but always important ways in which our tables are shaped by cultural, historical, political, and technological influences.

Join us on this special virtual talk and tour at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology with Joyce Chapli, guest curator and Harvard University James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History; Janis Sacco, Director...

2021 Apr 15

Virtual Glass Flowers Tour

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online

Cost: $8 members/$10 nonmembers per registration.

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2021 Mar 23

Art Talk Live: The Art of Extinction in Early Modern Europe

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Climate change has brought renewed and urgent interest in the relationship between human behavior and the mass extinction of animal species and their habitats. Early modern Europeans, too, were preoccupied with extinction, and many works of art bear witness to their concerns. Focusing on Antonio Tempesta’s print A Wolf Hunt, with a Dead Ram as Bait, this talk will examine the period’s various notions of extinction, while also drawing connections with contemporary thinking on the subject in museums and elsewhere.

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2021 Mar 20

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Design by Decay, with Mei Tercek

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Explore works that are shaped by decay and generated through destruction. This interactive tour looks closely at the beauty that remains in the wake of decay in the Thai sculpture The Standing Buddha (7th–8th century), the bronze Daphne (1930) by sculptor Renée Sintenis, and the painting Legno e Rosso 3 (1956) by Alberto Burri.

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2021 Mar 18

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Red, Yellow, and Blue, with Adam Sella

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this tour, Harvard student, Adam Sella, explores the action of red, yellow, and blue in three works of art. For red, it’s a panel from Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals (1962); for yellow, the painting A Nayika and Her Lover (c. 1660–70) by an unknown artist from India; and for blue, Pablo Picasso’s Blue period painting Mother and Child (c. 1901). Taking our Forbes Pigment Collection as a springboard, the tour also looks at the material basis of these colors, their history, and their power to stir emotions.

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2021 Mar 15

Members: Not on Display! Treasures of the Mineralogical & Geological Museum

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museum of Natural History—Online

Visitors to the Harvard Museum of Natural History are dazzled by the Mineral Gallery’s beautiful specimens, yet the gallery displays only a fraction of the entire collection.

While each of the collection’s 300,000+ specimens has great scientific value, a subset also has significant commercial value. Join Curator Raquel Alonso-Perez for a virtual behind the-scenes visit to view specimens that, for security reasons, are not typically on display. You’ll see a rare opal in matrix from Mexico, tourmalines from the first pegmatitic discovery in the U.S., and crystalline gold, among...

2021 Mar 13

Virtual Student Guide Tour: The Museums, Revisited, with Kaitlin Hao

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Harvard’s Kaitlin Hao confronts the history of museum practice through a critical look at three works installed at the Harvard Art Museums: Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha (from Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, China), a Liberian (Mano) "chief’s mask," and Nature Study by Louise Bourgeois.

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2021 Mar 11

Virtual Student Guide Tour: Art in Exile, with Vlad Batagui

8:00pm to 8:30pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Explore the relationship between art and the origins of its creation, looking at different ways in which art objects and artists get removed from their original cultural contexts. This interactive tour looks closely at the seventh-century mural painting Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha (from Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, China), the sculpture Torso of a Young Girl (1922) by Constantin Brancusi, and the easel painting Jocular Sounds (1929) by Wassily Kandinsky.

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2021 Mar 09

Art Talk Live: Reframing Photographic Histories at the Harvard Art Museums

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

In this talk, photography curator Makeda Best will explore the history of photography collecting at Harvard and share her work to foreground new perspectives, contexts of interpretation, and historical connections.

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2021 Mar 06

A History of Path-Making at the Arnold Arboretum

2:00pm

Location:

Arnold Arboretum—Online

At the time of its founding in 1872, the land on which the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is sighted was a patchwork of farmland and forest. As the Arboretum was planted, pathways were developed to lead people through the picturesque landscape. As the landscape developed, economies shifted, wars took place, and directors changed. Each of these factors subtly influenced shifts in the park’s path system. Join the Arnold Arboretum on Zoom with Jared Rubinstein as he reveals the layers of change in this beloved landscape.

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