Events

    Arctic Pandemics: Arctic Yearbook Special Issue Virtual Launch

    Location: 

    Harvard Kennedy School, Belfer Center—Online

    The COVID-19 pandemic was a global phenomenon, but its impacts in the Arctic, and the experiences of Arctic communities, were distinct.

    Join us for the official launch event of the Arctic Yearbook’s Special Volume on Arctic Pandemics: COVID-19 and Other Pandemic Experiences and Lessons Learned. The volume includes 15 peer reviewed articles and ten shorter contributions, and is available open access on the Arctic Yearbook's website.

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    2023 Oct 07

    Exhibition: Seeing in Art and Medicine

    Repeats every week on Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sat Dec 30 2023 except Fri Nov 10 2023, Thu Nov 23 2023, Sun Dec 24 2023.
    10:00am to 5:00pm

    Location: 

    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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    Tour of Houghton Library

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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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    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    Location: 

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

    Location: 

    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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    Art Study Center Seminar: Jean (Hans) Arp’s Sculptural Process—From Plaster Model to Bronze Cast

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge

    Plaster casts and models are often integral to an artist’s production of sculpture, but the ways Jean (Hans) Arp incorporated them into his process sheds light on his concept of art. Join curatorial fellow Clemens Ottenhausen to examine 11 plaster casts and a bronze by Arp to pinpoint how he developed and finished his three-dimensional works. These works are recent acquisitions to the museums’ collections.

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    2023 Oct 14

    Her Luminous Distance: Legacies of Women Astronomical Computers at Harvard

    Repeats every week on Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sun Oct 22 2023 .
    (All day)

    Location: 

    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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    Art Talk Live: Jean (Hans) Arp and Modern Sculpture (Online)

    Location: 

    Harvard Art Museums—Online

    Jean (Hans) Arp had a personal connection to Harvard University; he was commissioned in 1950 to create Constellations II (1950/58), which is now in the Busch-Reisinger Museum collection, and the Busch-Reisinger recently acquired 13 additional works by the artist. Given these connections, this presentation takes the opportunity to consider some aspects of Arp’s sculptural practice in the context of modern sculpture.

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    Book Talk with Katherine Turk

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    The final installment of the summer 2023 Virtual Harvard Radcliffe Book Talk series will feature Katherine Turk RI ’19, author of The Women of NOW: How Feminists Built an Organization that Transformed America (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023).

    Turk is an associate professor in the Department of History and adjunct associate professor of women’s and gender studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An award-winning scholar of modern America, Turk’s work explores histories of women, gender, and sexuality, as well as law, labor, and social movements....

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

    Location: 

    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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    Curatorial Chat: Royal Chicano Air Force Posters

    Location: 

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

    Location: 

    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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    Book Talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    Join a virtual Harvard Radcliffe Book Talk with V.V. Ganeshananthan RI ’15, author of the novel Brotherless Night (Random House, 2023). Ganeshananthan is a McKnight Presidential Fellow and associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota, where she teaches in the MFA program in creative writing.

    Brotherless Night, a New York Times Editors' Choice selection, follows a young Tamil woman in Jaffna as she navigates the beginning of the Sri Lankan civil war in the 1980s. While she pursues her ambition to be a doctor, she faces upheavals and...

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

    Location: 

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

    Location: 

    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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    Tunes @ Noon

    Location: 

    Science Center Plaza, 1 Oxford St., Cambridge

    Enjoy a live performance every Tuesday at 1pm at the Science Center Plaza during Harvard's Farmers' Market from June 20 - October 31.

    Performance schedule:

    • August 1: TBD
    • August 8: ...
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    Harvard Art Museums at Night

    Location: 

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

    Location: 

    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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    Book Talk with Jarvis R. Givens

    Location: 

    Harvard Radcliffe Institute—Online

    A virtual book talk with Jarvis R. Givens RI ’21, author of "School Clothes: A Collective Memoir of Black Student Witness."

    Givens is an associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a faculty affiliate of the Department of African and African American Studies in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. His research focuses on the history of American education, African American history, and the relationship between race and power in schools.

    Givens' reading will be followed by a discussion with Clint Smith, staff writer at The...

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