This exhibition conceives of passports as the ruins of a modern dream now in terminal crisis – the dream of a globalized world. Drawing on the collections of Harvard Library, Passports: Lives in Transit addresses this major contemporary issue through the lens of passports, visa applications, and other documents associated with noteworthy nineteenth- and twentieth-century travelers, émigrés and refugees. Also on view, items of personal significance to a Harvard student telling a story of Latino immigration to the U.S., as well as a site-specific multimedia art installation of...
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, 11 Divinity Ave.
Harvard archaeologists and students will bring history alive for families by presenting hands-on activities, sharing their research, and providing demonstrations of ancient and up-to-the-minute technologies...... Read more about Amazing Archaeology Fair at Harvard
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
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
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...
To complement the American Repertory Theater production of WARHOLCAPOTE (September 9–October 13, 2017), the Art Study Center will feature prints from Andy Warhol’s portfolio Marilyn Monroe, on September 11, 18, 25, and October 2.
This event coincides with our regular Art Study Center Open Hours; visitors may also request to see works of art not currently on view in the galleries.
The Art Study Center is located on Level 4. No appointment is necessary during open hours. Please be prepared to present a photo ID. Free with museums admission