Opening Celebration: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings

Location: 

Menschel Hall, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA 02138

Join us for a lecture and festive reception in celebration of our new special exhibition Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with... Read more about Opening Celebration: Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings

Urban Intermedia: City, Archive, Narrative

Location: 

Gund Hall, Piper Auditorium, Room 105, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Please join us for a conversation among the curators, Eve Blau and Robert Pietrusko, and invited media theorists, Laura Kurgan,...

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2018 Sep 02

Mutiny: Works by Géricault

Repeats every day until Sun Jan 06 2019 .

(All day)

Location: 

University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Mutiny: Works by Géricault explores compelling images by the Romantic period’s most influential artist, Théodore Géricault (1791–1824), whose... Read more about Mutiny: Works by Géricault

2018 Sep 02

Adam and Eve

Repeats every day until Sun Jan 06 2019 .

(All day)

Location: 

University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

For most of history, humans expressed ethical ideas through stories, and of all these the story of Adam and Eve has been perhaps the most powerful... Read more about Adam and Eve

Film: Tacita Dean’s Kodak

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

As part of our special programming related to the Analog Culture exhibition, the museums will present Tacita Dean’s film Kodak (2006; 16 mm; 44 min.).... Read more about Film: Tacita Dean’s Kodak

2018 Jul 08

Summer Sundays

Repeats every week every Sunday until Sun Aug 26 2018 .

11:00am to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge

Free, fun, family activities allow visitors to explore arts from the ancient Near East. Activities change daily: make Egyptian accessories, inscribe... Read more about Summer Sundays

2018 Jul 01

Nam June Paik: Screen Play

Repeats every day until Sun Aug 05 2018 .

(All day)

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Nam June Paik: Screen Play reveals the striking breadth of Paik’s oeuvre from the 1960s through early 2000s and draws attention to... Read more about Nam June Paik: Screen Play

Free Admission Day for Harvard Commencement

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors today, in celebration of Harvard Commencement.... Read more about Free Admission Day for Harvard Commencement

2018 May 20
Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001
Repeats every day until Sun Aug 12 2018 .
(All day)
Location: 
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
This exhibition takes an unprecedented look at the productive and dynamic collaboration between photographer and printer, through the... Read more about Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001
2018 May 20

A.K. Burns: Survivor’s Remorse

Repeats every day until Sun Aug 12 2018 .

(All day)

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

A newly commissioned video installation in the museums’ Lightbox Gallery (Level 5), A.K. Burns, Survivor’s Remorse, looks specifically at the life and... Read more about A.K. Burns: Survivor’s Remorse

Free Admission Day for Art Museum Day and International Museum Day

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors today, in celebration of Art Museum Day and International Museum Day, organized... Read more about Free Admission Day for Art Museum Day and International Museum Day

Art in the Yard: Students Make Art Public at Radcliffe

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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery, Byerly Hall, 8 Garden St., Cambridge

Art in the Yard showcases the remarkable student artwork generated in Radcliffe's biennial Public Art Competition by presenting past winning designs along... Read more about Art in the Yard: Students Make Art Public at Radcliffe

2018 Apr 28

Visual and Environmental Studies 2018 Senior Thesis: Interface

Repeats every day until Fri May 25 2018 .

(All day)

Location: 

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge

For many Visual and Environmental Studies students, the Senior Thesis is the capstone experience in the department. Students conceive... Read more about Visual and Environmental Studies 2018 Senior Thesis: Interface

Modern Humans’ Earliest Artwork and Music: New European Discoveries

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Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford St., Cambridge, MA

The earliest evidence of artwork made by modern humans, Aurignacian art, was created more than 35,000 years ago and has been found in French, German, and Romanian archaeological sites.... Read more about Modern Humans’ Earliest Artwork and Music: New European Discoveries

The Visibility of the Eiffel Tower

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA.

La Tour Eiffel—the 300-meter open-work iron pylon erected in Paris for the Exposition Universelle... Read more about The Visibility of the Eiffel Tower

Drawing History and the Image as Memory

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA

Peruvian-born artist Fernando Bryce will discuss his artistic practice...... Read more about Drawing History and the Image as Memory

2018 Feb 10

Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55

Repeats every day until Sun Jun 03 2018 .

(All day)

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

The first exhibition of its kind, Inventur examines the highly charged artistic landscape in Germany from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. The exhibition... Read more about Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55

2018 Jan 21

Fernando Bryce: The Book of Needs

Repeats every day until Sun May 06 2018 .

(All day)

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Fernando Bryce’s The Book of Needs is a multipart work comprised of 81 ink-on-paper drawings that explores issues of immigration, refugeeism,... Read more about Fernando Bryce: The Book of Needs

From Stone to Silicone

Location: 

Harvard Semitic Museum, 6 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge

The Harvard Semitic Museum is reimagining its grand third-floor atrium gallery, featuring the arts of ancient Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). This... Read more about From Stone to Silicone

Film and Discussion: Gazing through a Lens—ʿAli Khan Documents 19th-Century Iran

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

Preview Azadeh Tajpour’s film about a fascinating 19th-century album of photographs created by ʿAli Khan Vali, long-time governor of the province of Azerbaijan in northwestern Iran and an avid photographer. The album is currently on view in the museums’ Technologies of the Image exhibition. Tajpour, a multidisciplinary artist based in Cambridge, will discuss...

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