Events

2022 May 10

Gallery Talk: Anna Atkins’s Botanical Cyanotypes—Camera-less Photography and Scientific Discovery in the 19th Century

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

This talk will highlight the work and artistic process of Anna Atkins (1799–1871), creator of the first photographically illustrated book. It will also explore the importance of Atkins's photograms to scientific research and documentation in the 19th century.

This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view at the Harvard Art Museums through July 31,...

2022 May 07

Harvard Art Museums: Student Guide Tour

2:00pm to 2:50pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

These tours, designed and led by Harvard undergraduates from a range of academic disciplines, focus on objects chosen by each student guide and provide visitors a unique, thematic view into collections.

Tours are limited to 18 people, and it is required that you reserve your place. At 10am the day of the event, reservations will open and may be arranged online through this form. The Student Guide Tour reservation will also serve as your...

2022 May 05

Ceramics Program Spring Show and Sale 2022

Repeats every day until Sun May 08 2022 .

10:00am to 7:00pm

Location:

Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave., Allston

Twice a year in May and December, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard hosts an exhibition and sale featuring thousands of pieces of original ceramic artwork by participants in Ceramics Program classes. From pottery to sculpture, ceramic jewelry, planters, and more, this popular exhibition has something for everyone!

Learn more.

2022 May 01

Art Exhibit | Stoneroot Epistle: Collage and Words in Conversation

Repeats every week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sat Jun 25 2022 .

12:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Arnold Arboretum (Hunnewell Visitor Center), 125 Arborway, Boston

Visit the Arnold Arboretum's newly reopened Hunnewell Visitor Center and immerse yourself in this truly unique exhibition. The book, Stoneroot Epistle, was born out of Joyce Swagerty (Harvard class of '78) and Daina Swagerty's desire to understand the connection between themselves, the natural world, and the universal journey inspired by the African diaspora. The project by this mother and daughter was a spiritual adventure.

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2022 Apr 29

Harvard Public Art Tours: Allston

Fri Apr 29 (All day) to Sun Apr 30 (All day)

Location:

Multiple locations along Western Avenue, Allston

Named after Washington Allston—a visionary painter and 1800 Harvard graduate—the town of Allston features vibrant, eclectic art that reflects the neighborhood's creativity and diversity. On this self-guided tour, you'll discover "can't-miss" public art installations along Western Avenue and learn the stories behind them and their artists. Follow along to explore hand-painted murals, sky-high sculptures, 25-cent art prints, and more!

Tour Stops: 27
Tour Length: 1 hour (shorter routes included)
Tour Distance: Up to 2 miles...

2022 Apr 28

Harvard Art Museums at Night

5:00pm to 9:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

This evening marks the launch of Harvard Art Museums at Night, which will take place the last Thursday of every month, from 5 to 9pm. Each night will feature a new mix of local talent and community partners to make this a festive occasion for all.

Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, 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.

Check out our special exhibitions...

2022 Apr 27

In-Person Gallery Talk: Ella Hurd’s Botanical Cyanotypes—Camera-less Photography and Scientific Discovery in the 19th Century

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The talk will highlight amateur botanist Ella Hurd and the process she used to make her cyanotypes. It will also explore the importance of camera-less photography to scientific research and documentation in the 19th century.

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2022 Apr 27

The Descendants (A Novel)

12:00pm

Location:

Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

Ladee Hubbard is a writer whose most recent novel is “The Rib King” (Amistad, 2021). In this lecture, she will discuss her current project, a novel that examines the implications of the ways in which Black people in the United States have historically been represented as an internal threat to both public health and safety, placing the 1980s War on Drugs in dialogue with the larger history of African Americans being used in drug trials and medical experiments.

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2022 Apr 22

Mayors Imagining the Just City

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

Concluding the second annual Mayors Institute on City Design (MICD) Just City Mayoral Fellowship–a collaboration between the MICD and Harvard GSD’s Just City Lab–the Fellows discuss strategies for using planning and design interventions to address racial injustice in each of their cities.

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2022 Apr 22

In-Person Exhibition Tour: White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph

12:00pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join curator Lynette Roth and conservator Penley Knipe for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph, on view through July 31, 2022.

Anneliese Hager (1904–1997) made significant contributions to the medium of camera-less photography and to the wider surrealist movement in Europe. The camera-less photograph, or photogram, is an image made by placing objects directly on (or in close proximity to)...

2022 Apr 21

John Portman Lecture: Bruther // Stéphanie Bru et Alexandre Thériot

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot founded Bruther in Paris in 2007. They belong to the generation of architects who started their careers at the beginning of the recession, a condition likely to be reflected in the way they define architecture: as a Swiss Army knife, a tool to be used in the most disparate circumstances, an aid that reconciles all fields of knowledge.

2022 Apr 21

The Power of Antiquity in the Making of Modern Egypt

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Ancient Egypt conjures images of pharaonic temples, tombs, and pyramids, and perhaps, even the familiar illustrations from children’s books and magazines showing kilted workers on the Nile toiling away on their kings’ great monuments. But what is the relationship between these images—along with the deep history they evoke and the processes of discovery that made them visible—and the history of modern Egypt?

In this talk, Wendy Doyon will discuss the relationship between state, archaeology, and labor in Mehmed (or Muhammad) Ali’s Egypt—an autonomous khedival, or viceregal,...

2022 Apr 21

In-Person Gallery Talk: Washington and the Power of Clothes

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Join curator Horace D. Ballard for fresh perspective on two of the museums’ iconic portraits of George Washington through the meaning of gesture and the materialities of fashion. Inspired by Ballard’s recent research on Washington and his rewriting of the portraits’ gallery labels, the talk will explore the important role artists played in shaping the nation’s sense of self after the partisan politics of the Revolutionary War.

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2022 Apr 20

Mexican Red: The Perfect Color that Changed the World

6:00pm to 7:00pm

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) is a small insect that produces a brilliant red pigment. Found in textiles, paintings, cosmetics, and many other objects that span the globe, cochineal is an integral part of world history. Cochineal pigment was used by Mesoamerican peoples long before the Spanish arrived in the sixteenth century. After being introduced to Europe, it quickly became a precious commodity and control over its global trade was a source of conflict and competition for over three centuries. In this lecture, Gabriela Soto Laveaga will trace the fascinating history of cochineal...

2022 Apr 20

Making Race: Policy, Sex, and Social Order in the French Atlantic and Indian Oceans, 1608–1756

12:00pm

Location:

Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

Mélanie Lamotte is an assistant professor of French at Tulane University. After completing her first book, under contract with Harvard University Press, she is undertaking a research project that examines the material life of the enslaved across the early modern French empire, thereby reconstructing the cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of slave communities. Join her to learn more about her work.

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2022 Jul 08

Cochineal: How Mexico Made the World See Red

(All day)

Location:

Harvard Museums of Science & Culture—Online

Cochineal, a tiny insect found on certain species of Oaxacan cacti, was harvested for millennia by Indigenous peoples to dye fabrics a vibrant red color. But following the European invasion of the Americas in the sixteenth century, it became a widely coveted, globally traded commodity that transformed textiles and art, and made Mexico a center for technological innovation. Cochineal: How Mexico Made the World See Red explores how this Indigenous technology changed the world, becoming an international symbol of power, while simultaneously disenfranchising its discoverers.

2022 Apr 19

Inclusions: Imagining Justice on Harvard's Campus

5:00pm to 6:00pm

Location:

Office for the Arts at Harvard—Online

Inclusions, an art installation created by Kiana Rawji '23, Cecilia Zhou '23, and Luke Reeve MDE '23, affirms that just as Harvard has shaped its students, so too have the students shaped Harvard; the student bricks will serve as records of formative contact between entities, expressions of individual identity, presence, and power in public space. During the month of April 2022, the bricks will be used to create a cohesive installation in Harvard Yard near Thayer Hall.

Join Kiana and Cecilia, with special guest commentator Professor Tracy K. Smith and moderator...

2022 Apr 19

Harvard Design Magazine #50 Issue Launch and Conversation

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Harvard Graduate School of Design—Online

“Today is global” is a rather banal truism, but what really is today’s globalism? In a conversation with contributors from across the globe, Harvard Design Magazine introduces issue #50: Today’s Global, guest-edited by Sarah M. Whiting and Rahul Mehrotra.

Today’s world has entered a phase of critical backlash against globalization, which is for some a critique of...

2022 Apr 19

Art Talk Live: Yasuo Kuniyoshi’s Last Act

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location:

Harvard Art Museums—Online

Yasuo Kuniyoshi once proclaimed that “an artist’s drawings are his first words.” Having emigrated from Japan to the United States at the age of 16, Kuniyoshi relied upon drawing as his most expressive medium. Through drawing, he translated the anxiety, disillusionment, and alienation faced by Japanese émigrés in the aftermath of World War II into a uniquely personal and dynamic American modernist style.

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2022 Apr 16

Yvonne Andersen and the Yellow Ball Workshop: Films By Kids

3:00pm to 4:10pm

Location:

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

An influential and acclaimed animator, teacher and author, Yvonne Andersen started the pioneering Yellow Ball Workshop in her home, teaching children every aspect of film animation so they could make their own films from start to finish. Yellow Ball distributed compilations of short films and gained international fame. This program features many entertaining examples of the workshop's unique output.

Cost: $10 for general public; $8 for non-Harvard students & seniors; free for Harvard ID holders

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