Repeats every week on Thursday, Friday, Saturday until Sat Dec 10 2022 .
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Harvard University's Smith Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge
Visit Cambridge Arts' Holiday Art Market at Harvard University's Smith Center Arcade, 1350 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, from December 1-3 and December 8-10, from 11:00am to 6:00pm each day. Find gifts by local creators for your loved ones: paintings, papercuts, photography, prints, books, cards, calendars, ceramics, jewelry, knitted goods, mosaics, scarves, sculptures, soaps, and women’s clothing.
Presented in partnership with Harvard Common Spaces.
Online or at Knafel Center, 10 Garden St., Cambridge
Harvard Radcliffe Institute will hold a major public conference January 26–27, 2023, to probe the complex and unpredictable ways that Roe v. Wade and its aftermath shaped the United States and the world beyond it for nearly half a century. The existential issue of abortion—and the galvanizing impact of Roe in particular—transformed the nation’s politics and public policy and its social movement energies, as well as the operations of the courtroom and the clinic.
This opening session of the conference features speakers with a range of perspectives from the front lines of...
A presentation from 2022–2023 Hilles Bush Fellow Roberto Zariquiey.
Zariquiey is a linguist specializing in Amazonian linguistic diversity, especially indigenous Peruvian languages. His fellowship project focuses on the grammar of Iskonawa, an Amazonian language with only five elderly speakers, assessing from a broad theoretical and methodological perspective the challenges that obsolescence poses for grammatical description and language documentation—and critically investigating the belief that obsolescing languages lose complexity, exhibit defective grammars, and do not...
Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!
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. After you’ve browsed the galleries, circle back to see what’s happening in the courtyard. Harvard Art Museums at Night features a new mix of local talent and community partners to make this a festive occasion for all.
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century, wielding the power to visually articulate, reinforce, or contradict beliefs as well as biases.
Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forwardis a team-curated exhibition that brings together art history, Egyptology, and conservation science to illuminate artists’ processes and the life stories of the people depicted in funerary portraits. Join two exhibition curators as they describe what can be learned when close looking, scientific analysis, and community collaboration combine.
Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century, wielding the power to visually articulate, reinforce, or contradict beliefs as well as biases.
In this family-friendly talk, Erica Lawton will explore works featuring a variety of species, including mammals, birds, and fish. Meet the creatures of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023.
Explore the our current exhibitions, enjoy entertainment from DJ C-Zone in the courtyard, create art inspired by our collections in the Materials Lab, and kick back with friends. Sip on local craft beer from Night Shift Brewing and find the perfect gift for your loved ones (or yourself) with 10% off the Museum shop just in time for the holidays!
Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford St., Cambridge
Did you know that many of the birds in the Northeastern United States spend the winter in Latin America socializing and eating among tropical trees and flowers? Explore the lives and behaviors of these birds in our Birds of the World gallery and learn about flowers from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Mexico in the Blaschka Glass Flowers gallery. Try some hands-on activities led by Hear Me Out/Escúchame teens, see their newest mini exhibit, decorate a bird or flower mask, and brighten the dark season!
Learn how to make beautiful seasonal cards and prints using the alternative photography method known as Cyanotype. Participants will collect leaves and seeds in the landscape and arrange them on special paper to create a deep blue print with bright, ghost-white silhouettes. This historic photography method, otherwise known as blueprints (sunprints), is one of the earliest forms of photography, and offers participants the ability to perform something that seems like magic.
