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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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 Mar 03
2021 Arnold Arboretum Tournament of Trees
Wed Mar 3 (All day) to Tue Mar 30 (All day)
Location: 
Arnold Arboretum—Online
Participate in the Arnold Arboretum’s 2021 Tournament of Trees! Get to know this year’s Sweet Sixteen contenders (March 3–9) and cast your votes in this fun bracket style tournament. Let the March Tree Madness games begin.
The tournament schedule is:
• Sweet Sixteen Round: March 3-9
• Elite Eight Round: March 10-16
• Final Four Round: March 17-23
• Championship Round: March 24-30
• Winner Announcement: April 1
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2021 Mar 01
Virtual Self-Guided Tour: Nature as Artist
Mon Mar 1 (All day) to Fri Apr 30 (All day)
Location: 
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online
Nature has long inspired we humans to imagine and create art. Dancers, designers, musicians, painters, and sculptors—they are all found in the natural world. Take this virtual journey through the exhibit galleries of the Harvard Museum of Natural History, where we will reveal intriguing, and often surprising, sources of creativity and connection between the realms of nature and art.
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2021 Feb 27
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Design by Decay, with Mei Tercek
11:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Mei Tercek ’21 explores 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 ...
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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
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, ...
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2020 Dec 03
Student Guide Tour: The Bind of Beauty—Nature, Art, and Femininity, with Sophia Mautz
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Online Event
Join us 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 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 19
Student Guide Tour: The Art of Pleasure
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Felipe Muñoz ’22 explores how an Archaic Greek bowl attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, a Symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau, and a Bauhaus chess set by Josef Hartwig concern themselves with different kinds of pleasure.
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2020 Nov 14
Student Guide Tour: Seeing the Light
11:00am to 11:30am
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Alexis Boo ’22 explores works of art that incorporate and manipulate light, rendering it as their medium. This interactive tour features Light Prop for an Electric Stage by László Moholy-Nagy, Gare Saint-Lazare by Claude Monet, and Fish and Turtles by Maruyama Ōkyo.
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2020 Nov 12
Student Guide Tour: Intimacy in Art
8:00pm to 8:30pm
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Maeve Miller ’22 will investigate forms of intimacy across the history of art and the tensions between them by looking closely at Summer Scene [Bathers] by Jean Frédéric Bazille, the sculpture Prince Shotoku at Age Two, and The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream by Charles Bird King.
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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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2020 Oct 03
Creature Feature: Merpeople!
10:00am to 10:30am
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums—Online
Creature Feature, a new online series from the Harvard Art Museums, offers a chance for families with children ages 6 and up to explore magical creatures across the collections through close-looking and curious exploration with museum staff. In this talk, take a (virtual) trip to the sea! Join curatorial assistants Casey Monahan and Heather Linton on Zoom to discover sirens and merpeople in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s "A Sea-Spell" and Edward Farrell’s "Pair of Rutland Tazzas."
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2020 Sep 25
Art Study Center Seminar at Home: Plastics in the Collections
11:00am to 12:00pm
Location: 
Online—Harvard Art Museums
Since the early 20th century, plastic has been a popular material for many artists due to its ability to be transformed—bent, shaped, molded, stretched. However, when works made with plastic enter a museum collection, they bring numerous challenges. Join conservation scientist Georgina Rayner and conservator Susan Costello to learn more about the materials, condition and treatment issues, and the demands this material poses for storage and display.
Led by:
Susan Costello, Associate Conservator of Objects and Sculpture, Straus Center for Conservation and...
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