Events

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 Sep 23

Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History

12:00pm

Location:

Online—Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard

As the Beatrice Shepherd Blane Fellow, Leslie M. Harris is completing “Leaving New Orleans: A Personal Urban History.” She uses memoir and family, urban, and environmental histories to explore the multiple meanings of New Orleans in the nation, from its founding through its uncertain future amid climate change.

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2020 May 30

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

11:00am to 11:30am

Location:

Online Event

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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2020 Mar 07

Weekend Matinee: The Place Promised in Our Early Days

4:00pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Makoto Shinkai's remarkable feature film debut is set in a futuristic Japan on the verge of war. Takuya, a physicist, is drawn into a complex world of dreams, revolutionary fronts, government conspiracies and multiple realities. After many years, he reunites with his high school pal in their shared grief over their missing friend Sayuri, upon whose mysterious fate the whole world may depend.

Admission: $5 Weekend Matinee Admission or Free with Cambridge Public Library Card or current Harvard Student ID

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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 Mar 05

The Khufu Boat

6:00pm

Location:

Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge

In 1954, Egyptian archaeologist Kamal el-Mallakh discovered a 144-foot ship buried next to the Great Pyramid of Giza. The Khufu boat—one of the oldest-known planked vessels from antiquity—was interred in honor of Khufu, the pharaoh who built the Great Pyramid. Bob Brier will discuss what is known about the design, propulsion, and function of this 4,600-year- old ship, based on recent tank tests conducted on a model. He will also highlight plans to build a full-scale replica of the vessel and to place it on the Nile.

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International Womxn’s Day Lecture: Dr. Vandana Shiva

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Dr. Vandana Shiva is trained as a Physicist and did her Ph.D. on the subject “Hidden Variables and Non-locality in Quantum Theory” from the University of Western Ontario in Canada. She later shifted to inter-disciplinary research in science, technology and environmental policy, which she carried out at the Indian Institute of Science and the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. In 1982, she founded an independent institute, the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology in Dehra Dun dedicated to high quality and independent research to address the most...

2020 Mar 03

Women, Contemporary Art, and Business Panel Discussion

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

Klarman Hall, Harvard Business School, Batten Way, Boston

Organized in conjunction with the 2019–2020 exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection at Harvard Business School, the panel discussion "Women, Contemporary Art, and Business" will feature:

Bharti Kher, Artist
Ina Johannesen Dibley, CEO Ekebergparken/C. Ludens Ringnes Foundation, Oslo, Norway
Nora Lawrence, Senior Curator Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY

The panel discussion will explore a range of topics including public art and sculpture; the role of women artists, curators, and directors...

2020 Mar 02

Lecture: Seed Sovereignty and ‘Our Living Relatives’ in Native American Community Farming and Gardening

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Stubbins Room 112, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Native heirloom seed varieties, many of which have been passed down through generations of Indigenous gardeners or re-acquired from seed banks or ally seed savers, are often discussed by Indigenous farmers as the foundation of the food sovereignty movement, and as helpful tools for education and reclaiming health. This presentation explores how Native American community-based farming and gardening projects are defining heirloom or heritage seeds; why maintaining and growing out these seeds is seen as so important, and how terms like seed sovereignty should be defined and enacted. Many of...

2020 Mar 01

Concert: Parker Quartet

3:00pm

Location:

John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, 3 Oxford St., Cambridge

As part of the Blodgett Chamber Music Series, the Parker Quartet will perform the following: Esa-Pekka Salonen Homunculus for String Quartet (2007); Szymanowski String Quartet #2, Opus 56; Beethoven String Quartet in A minor, Opus 132.

Please note: This event is free but tickets are required, available February 16 at Harvard Box Office, Smith Campus Center. Box Office is open Tuesday—Sunday, 12:00pm–6:00pm. Tickets are also available by phone 617-496-2222 or online. There is a small service charge for online and phone orders.

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Concert: Pedro Memelsdorff

11:00am

Location:

Memorial Church, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

Pedro Memelsdorff directs the University Choir in Messe en cantiques, a reconstruction of a mass as it would have been sung by freed and enslaved Africans in colonial Haiti.

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2020 Feb 29

Harvard/Yale Battle of the Big Bands

8:00pm

Location:

Scullers Jazz Club, 400 Soldiers Field Rd., Boston

Join Scullers Jazz Club for the Third Annual "Battle of the Big Bands" with the Harvard and Yale Jazz Orchestras with Special Guests, Saxophonists Wayne Escoffery and Yosvani Terry!

Harvard's Jazz Band has performed worldwide, including 2017 performances in Cuba, and past concerts have included tributes to Herbie Hancock, Benny Golson, and many other important jazz artists. Performers in these concerts have included Terri Lyne Carrington, Lionel Loueke, Harold Mabern, George Coleman, Don Braden, and more.

The Yale Jazz Ensemble, a seventeen-piece big band...

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.

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Harvard Wind Ensemble Spring Concert

8:00pm

Location:

Lowell Lecture Hall, 17 Kirkland St., Cambridge

Join the Harvard Wind Ensemble for their spring concert on February 28.

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