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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 ...

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    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 ...

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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 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 06

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: The Bind of Beauty, with Sophia Mautz

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Examine the tension between nature and artifice in constructions of feminine beauty. She will lead an interactive discussion of Under the Cherry Blossoms, an early 16th-century illustration for The Tale of Genji by Tosa Mitsunobu, and two sculptures by women: Daphne (1930) by Renée Sintenis and Nature Study (1986) by Louise Bourgeois.

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    2021 Feb 13

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

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    To quote artist Mel Bochner, “Color is what color does.” In this tour, Adam Sella ’22 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...

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    2021 Feb 11

    Virtual Student Guide Tour: Seeing the Light, with Alexis Boo

    8:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Alexis Boo ’22 explores how works of art incorporate and manipulate light. Moving backward through time, this interactive tour features the Bauhaus sculpture Light Prop for an Electric Stage [Light-Space Modulator] by László Moholy-Nagy; the early Impressionist painting Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train by Claude Monet; and Fish and Turtles, a...

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    2020 Dec 05

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

    11:00am to 11:30am

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    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, ...

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    2020 Nov 21

    Student Guide Tour: Art in Exile

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Vlad Batagui ’21 explores 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 mural painting Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha (from Mogao Cave 323, in Dunhuang, China), the sculpture Torso of a Young Girl by Constantin Brancusi, and...

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    2020 Nov 07

    Student Guide Tour: The Bind of Beauty—Nature, Art, and Femininity

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Join the Harvard Art Museums live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!

    Sophia Mautz ’21 examines the tensions between nature and artifice in the construction of feminine beauty. She will lead an interactive discussion of the sculptures Nature Study by Louise Bourgeois and Daphne by Renée Sintenis as well as the painting Under the Cherry Blossoms (an illustration for the Tale of Genji) by Tosa Mitsunobu.

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    2020 Nov 05

    Student Guide Tour: The Blue Tour

    8:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Join the Harvard Art Museums live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour!

    Adam Sella ’22 explores the color blue in three works of art: Utagawa Hiroshige’s print Yamato Province: Yoshino, a Thousand Cherry Trees at One Glance, Pablo Picasso’s Mother and Child from his Blue Period, and Josef Albers’s painting Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue. Taking the Museums' Forbes Pigment Collection as a springboard, the tour considers blue’s...

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    2020 Oct 03

    Student Guide Tour: Art in Exile, with Vlad Batagui

    11:00am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Vlad Batagui ’21 explores the relationship between art and the origins of creation, looking at different ways in which art objects and artists get removed from their original cultural contexts. This free tour will take place online via Zoom.

    To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/94341342869 (no pre-registration required).

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