Harvard Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard, 224 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134
Join us to celebrate the opening of Raise a Glass—A Contemporary Response to Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World, an exhibition at the Harvard Ceramics Program that is inspired by the Harvard Art Museums’ current special exhibition, Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.
On view from October 13 through November 26, 2018, Raise a Glass features contemporary ceramic artists responding to the elaborate vessels featured in the Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition. Fourteen internationally recognized...
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Enrich your museum visit by listening to an evocative playlist of contemporary poems by Native American authors. Wander freely across the first-floor galleries to see where the poems take you and expand your understanding of Native arts and cultures. The poems, drawn from a powerful new anthology, New Poets of Native Nations (edited by Heid E. Erdrich; Graywolf Press) celebrate Native poets first published in the twenty-first century. Join this experiment to hear the...
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138
In the 1950s, the Cambridge-based Marshall family launched a groundbreaking effort to document the rapidly changing lives of Kalahari hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa. Explore the complex photographic history and the power of images to create and break stereotypes.
Free for Massachusetts residents every Sunday morning (year-round) from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm and on Wednesdays from 3:00 pm...
Come to Harvard Yard for hands-on art-making activities, games, and other family fun to celebrate artist Teresita Fernández’s sculptural installation Autumn (…Nothing Personal). Explore the sculpture and create your own work of public art, then head across Quincy Street to the Harvard Art Museums, which are offering free admission to all visitors throughout the day. All are welcome at this free, family-friendly event.
Commissioned by the Harvard University Committee on the Arts specifically for Harvard Yard’s...
Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery of Byerly Hall, 8 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lead, Line, and Plummet features more than 40 intriguing objects, including artifacts, tools, images, and videos. Contributed by the incoming class of 2018–2019 Radcliffe fellows, this constellation of items introduces viewers to many of the projects and perspectives that animate the Institute’s vibrant multidisciplinary community of scholars, scientists, and artists.
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Knafel Center, 10 Garden Street, Cambridge
Lead, Line, and Plummet features more than 40 intriguing objects, including unique artifacts, tools, images, and videos. Contributed by the incoming class of 2018–2019 Radcliffe fellows, this constellation of items introduces viewers to an array of projects and perspectives that animate the Institute’s vibrant multidisciplinary community of scholars, scientists, and artists.
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
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
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
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
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