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    2023 Sep 12

    Harvard Public Art & Culture Tour

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    Multiple locations in Harvard Square, Cambridge and along Western Avenue, Allston

    Discover a new world of public art in and around Allston and Cambridge! Choose a self-guided tour and learn the captivating stories behind a variety of artworks and their artists. You’ll explore big names in art and architecture, thought-provoking contemporary installations, longstanding cultural institutions—and be amazed as hidden gems reveal themselves in plain sight!

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    2023 Sep 10

    Spotlight Tour: Food for Thought, with Hannah Gadway ’25

    2:00pm to 2:50pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Hannah Gadway ’25 will explore food-inspired works of art from the past to reflect on our attitudes about food today. Among the works discussed will be a gourd-shaped ewer made in Korea in the 12th century, The Breakfast Table (1883–84), an oil painting made in Paris by John Singer Sargent, and Pear Tree (1903), an oil painting made in Austria by Gustav Klimt.

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    2023 Sep 10

    Spotlight Tour: Women’s Health and Art, with Eve Crompton ’24

    11:00am to 11:50am

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    In this tour, Eve Crompton ’24 will analyze historical social attitudes toward female health and illness as she examines a selection of representations of women in art. She will look at an Attic grave stele, Woman dying in childbirth (c. 330 BCE); the painting Mother and Child (c. 1901), which Pablo Picasso was inspired to make after visiting a French prison hospital; and Erich Heckel’s painting To the Convalescent Woman (Triptych) (1912–13).

    An integrative biology student, Crompton aims to address the health inequalities perpetuated by structural...

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    2023 Sep 09

    Spotlight Tour: Paths to Abstraction, with Isa Haro ’24

    2:00pm to 2:50pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Isa Haro ’24 will explore how abstraction in art has been practiced, viewed, and enjoyed over time, with three very different examples. She will look at a group of Ming dynasty garden rocks (16th–17th century), which served as focal elements in traditional gardens; Paul Cézanne’s Study of Trees (c. 1904), a radically austere painting that contributed to Cézanne’s renown as a pivotal figure in the history of abstraction; and Alberto Burri’s Legno e rosso 3 (1956), a painting made with lacquered bark and a blowtorch. An art, film, and visual studies student, Haro...

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    2023 Sep 09

    Spotlight Tour: Deconstructing Disorientation, with Emily Feng ’25

    11:00am to 11:50am

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    On this tour, Emily Feng ’25 will explore how certain works of art provoke a sense of disorientation. A student of philosophy and economics, Feng will look closely at three works: Saxon Motif (1964), an oil painting made in West Germany by Georg Baselitz; Zhan Wang’s Sculpture in the Form of a Nine-Hole Scholar’s Rock, made in China in 2001; and The End of the World (1936), a painting by David Alfaro Siqueiros, which he produced in New York City.

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    2023 Sep 08

    Where We Belong: Tree Chuangs Opening

    4:00pm to 4:30pm

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    Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Three site-specific textile sculptures, designed by artist Xinan Ran and collaboratively created with local communities, sway from tree branches and invite us to connect to experiences of belonging. Seventy-five individual pieces are combined into a traditional Chinese chuang—a cylindrical textile commonly used in Buddhism. The works encourage us to see all the different ways in which we belong and learn to connect to each other. Join us for iced tea, potluck desserts, and an open mic to share your own response.

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    2023 Sep 02

    Exhibition: Seeing in Art and Medicine

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    Harvard Art Museums, University Research Gallery, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Try your hand at close-looking activities in this interactive exhibition, which examines objects from across the collections through the lens of the medical humanities and the human questions that doctors face in their daily work.

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    2023 Sep 01

    Tour of Houghton Library

    Repeats every week every Friday until Fri Dec 15 2023 except Fri Sep 29 2023, Fri Nov 10 2023, Fri Nov 24 2023.
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    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    Join an introduction to Houghton Library, Harvard’s primary rare book and manuscript library. The tour includes visits to exhibition spaces and display rooms dedicated to the English writer Samuel Johnson and his circle, Romantic poet John Keats, American poets Emily Dickinson and Amy Lowell, as well as the library of Harvard collector William King Richardson. A history of the building and an overview of services available to library patrons will also be provided.

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    2023 Aug 31

    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, enjoy smooth sounds from DJ C-Zone, and chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe. Browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art.

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    2023 Aug 30

    Gallery Talk—Blue Women: To Draw or Not to Draw Dutch Female Nudes from Life?

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curatorial fellow Talitha Maria G. Schepers for an interactive talk that explores why 17th-century Dutch artists decided to draw female nudes from life, the conventions they broke while doing so, and why they used blue paper. The talk will focus on a recent installation of Dutch drawings in the 17th-Century Dutch and Flemish Art Gallery.

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    2023 Aug 24

    Her Luminous Distance: Legacies of Women Astronomical Computers at Harvard

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    The Great Refractor, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, 60 Garden St., Cambridge

    The Harvard Plate Stacks is presenting a special exhibition, Her Luminous Distance: The Legacies of Women Astronomical Computers at Harvard, in the rotunda and dome of the Great Refractor at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian. See Aura Satz's installation artwork installed in the historic telescope dome. Free and open to the public, the exhibition celebrates the legacy of the Women Astronomical Computers and will illuminate to audiences the various disciplines and fields of study that have been inspired by these women and the astronomical photographs that...

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    2023 Aug 13

    Exhibition Tour: American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curator Joachim Homann for an in-depth discussion about works in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Homann will share insights about the making of the exhibition, which seeks to inspire conversations and enrich today’s practitioners of watercolor.

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    2023 Aug 11

    Curatorial Chat: Royal Chicano Air Force Posters

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

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    Houghton Library, Harvard Yard, Cambridge

    Join exhibition curator and Houghton librarian Dale Stinchcomb for a 30-minute guided tour of the Royal Chicano Air Force posters currently on display in Houghton's lobby gallery. This will include discussion of the themes of the exhibition, highlights from the materials on display, and ample time for participant questions.

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    2023 Aug 10

    Gallery Talk: American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join frames conservator Allison Jackson and senior conservation technician Adam Baker for a closer look at a selection of artworks in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Jackson will share insights about the variety of frames she treated for the exhibition.

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    2023 Aug 06

    Exhibition Tour: American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join Elisa Germán, curator at Colby College Museum of Art, for an in-depth discussion about works in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Homann will share insights about the making of the exhibition, which seeks to inspire conversations and enrich today's practitioners of watercolor.

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    2023 Aug 05

    Gallery Talk: American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curator Elisa Germán for a closer look at a selection of artworks in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Germán will share insights about the museums' collection of American watercolors from the mid- to late 20th century, focusing on a selection of drawings that reveal how this practice evolved into a new contemporary American medium.

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    2023 Jul 27

    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, enjoy smooth sounds from DJ C-Zone, and chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe. Night Shift Brewing is the featured local vendor. Browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art.

    Explore the exhibitions From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire and American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light on Level 3.

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    2023 Jul 27

    Gallery Talk: American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    12:30pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Conservator Penley Knipe and curator Miriam Stewart will lead an in-depth look at the materials and techniques used to create the varied works in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Learn about watercolor cakes, papers, and techniques, such as "wet-into-wet," "resist," and "scraping."

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    2023 Jul 23

    Exhibition Tour: American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

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    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Join curator Joachim Homann for an in-depth discussion about works in the exhibition American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, on view from May 20 to August 13, 2023. Homann will share insights about the making of the exhibition, which seeks to inspire conversations and enrich today’s practitioners of watercolor.

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