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Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.
Midday Organ Recital: Ethan Haman
Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall
29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.
Photo courtesy of Mass Poetry
Intercollegiate Poetry Showcase with Mass Poetry
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Join Mass Poetry and the Harvard Art Museums in celebrating National Poetry Month with a showcase of local undergraduate poets!
Edvard Munch, Angst, 1896. Woodcut printed in black ink with hand coloring in blue, green, orange, and yellow crayons and blue and red watercolor on off-white China paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.586.
Art Study Center Seminar: Edvard Munch and German Expressionism [AT CAPACITY]
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This seminar will explore ties between Munch and German expressionism, examining works by Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and others.
Unidentified artist, Two Owls at Sunset, 1860. Oil on canvas. Terra Foundation for American Art Study Collection, Gift of Steven Michaan, TL42458.3.
Gallery Talk: Gray Area—More than Flesh and Bone: Symbology in Two Owls at Sunset, 1860
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Explore the unique aspects of a landscape painting created during a time of turmoil and conflict in the United States.
Spotlight Tour: Materializing Experience, with Milen Negasi ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Milen Negasi will explore the critical role that materials can play in communicating an artist’s experiences and emotions.
Spotlight Tour: Floribunda Stories, with Jieyan Wang ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Jieyan Wang ’25 will explore representations of flowers in the history of art and related issues of symbolism, materiality, and abstraction.
One of the works Emily Feng will spotlight is this tetradrachm of Athens (449 BCE–420 BCE), a Greek coin featuring an owl.
Spotlight Tour: Birdwatching in the Museums, with Emily Feng ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Emily Feng will invite you to search for images of birds in the museums’ galleries.
One of the works Aidan Scully and Isabelle Halsey will spotlight is this ritual bell made in China during the Zhou dynasty (475–221 BCE).
Spotlight Tour: The Art of Touch, with Isabelle Halsey ’25 and Aidan Scully ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Isabelle Halsey and Aidan Scully will explore the relationship between physical touch and ritual.
Maarten van Heemskerck, Giving Drink to the Thirsty, 1552. Brown ink over touches of black chalk and incidental white opaque watercolor, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink over black chalk. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor, 1994.155.
Gallery Talk: Italy in the North—Maarten van Heemskerck, A Revolutionary Printmaker
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Come discover the work of Maarten van Heemskerck, the Haarlem painter who represented the Italian Renaissance in the Northern Netherlands.
Repair and Restore: Embracing Change, Preserving Memory, and Building Community through the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Architectural conservator Jeanne Marie Teutonico will share how conserving heritage objects involves collaboration and community.
Joana Choumali, Female Equals Future, 2023, from the series Yougou-Yougou. Inkjet print on fabric with applied textiles, embroidery thread, and batting. © Joana Choumali.
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces/Conférence en galerie: Joana Choumali: Les langues des marchés ouest-africains
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Peabody Museum curator Ilisa Barbash for a close look at photographic textiles by Joana Choumali featured in our special exhibition.
1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.
Midday Organ Recital: Heinrich Christensen
Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall
29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall.
Polymnia, c. 1744–45, a Meissen porcelain figurine from the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum beside Arlene Shechet’s Sexy Baby Eyes, 2012; © Arlene Shechet. Image courtesy of the artist.
Gallery Talk: Disrupt the View
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Lynette Roth for a closer look at Arlene Shechet’s one-of-a-kind installation Disrupt the View at the Harvard Art Museums.
Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!
Keshav Das (painter), Mir ‘Ali Haravi (calligrapher), Album page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, album: early 17th century; painting: c. 1590–1600; calligraphy: c. 1535–45. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Adrienne Rubel Mohrig, 2023.503.
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.
One of the works Aidan Scully and Isabelle Halsey will spotlight is this ritual bell made in China during the Zhou dynasty (475–221 BCE).
Spotlight Tour: The Art of Touch, with Isabelle Halsey ’25 and Aidan Scully ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Isabelle Halsey and Aidan Scully will explore the relationship between physical touch and ritual.
One work Sophia Scott will spotlight is Otto van Meurs’s richly symbolic longcase musical clock (Dutch, c. 1750–75), which keeps accurate time to this day.
Spotlight Tour: Making Time, with Sophia Scott ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sophia Scott will explore how historical objects embody and enforce conceptions of time, with examples from ancient Egypt to 19th-century Paris.
One of the works Hannah Gadway will spotlight is Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863) by Albert Bierstadt.
Spotlight Tour: Visions of America, with Hannah Gadway ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Hannah Gadway will explore how works of art have envisioned the past, present, and future of the United States.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
One of the works Milen Negasi and Hanna Carney will spotlight is this storage jar (1840) made by Black American artist David Drake in antebellum South Carolina.
Spotlight Tour: A Noble Churn, with Milen Negasi ’25 and Hanna Carney ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Milen Negasi and Hanna Carney will explore the theme of glory through the works of three Black American artists.
Joana Choumali, I Scored, 2023, from the series Yougou-Yougou. Inkjet print on fabric with applied textiles, embroidery thread, and batting. © Joana Choumali.
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces/Conférence en galerie: Joana Choumali: Les langues des marchés ouest-africains
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Madison Brown to learn more about the photographic tapestries of Ivorian artist Joana Choumali featured in our special exhibition.
Anonymous, Polychrome Dutch floral tiles, c. 1625. Earthenware, tin-glazed with polychrome enamel decoration. Albany Institute for the History of Art, Albany, New York.
Annual Henri Zerner Lecture: Dutch Art and Rewilding Art History
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Caroline Fowler of the Clark Art Institute will present this year’s Henri Zerner Lecture.
© Neon
Film Screening: Robot Dreams
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Take a break from studying to watch the animated film Robot Dreams!
Dario Robleto, Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. © Dario Robleto.
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
In 1977, NASA launched “Golden Records” that represented the best of Earth’s cultures. Dario Robleto’s film interrogates the project.
László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.
Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.
Arts Fest at the Harvard Art Museums: Performance Fair in the Calderwood Courtyard and Adolphus Busch Hall
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Enjoy an afternoon of music in the light-filled Calderwood Courtyard and the elegant atmosphere of Adolphus Busch Hall.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Photo: Henk Nieman. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM. Copyright of the artist.
Annual Student Lecture: Rosana Paulino
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Join Afro-Brazilian artist Rosana Paulino for a conversation on art, identity, and history.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
© Paranoid Pictures
Film Screening: Exit Through the Gift Shop
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Take a break from studying to watch an unconventional documentary, directed by Banksy.
Tetradrachm of Alexander the Great, Babylon, 325 BCE–323 BCE. Silver. Loan from the Trustees of the Arthur Stone Dewing Greek Numismatic Foundation, 1.1965.1176.
Gallery Talk: Experimenting with Divinity
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Hellenistic artisans experimented in drawing that thin line between humanity and divinity.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Joana Choumali, Touch Me and Your First Boxing Lesson Is Free, 2022, from the series Yougou-Yougou. Inkjet print on fabric with applied textiles, embroidery thread, and batting. © Joana Choumali.
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces/Conférence en galerie: Joana Choumali: Les langues des marchés ouest-africains
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Peabody Museum curator Ilisa Barbash for a close look at photographic textiles by Joana Choumali featured in our special exhibition.
Joana Choumali, I’d Hit That, 2023, from the series Yougou-Yougou. Inkjet print on fabric with applied textiles, embroidery thread, and batting. © Joana Choumali.
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces/Conférence en galerie: Joana Choumali: Les langues des marchés ouest-africains
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join curator Mitra Abbaspour for a close look at photographic textiles by Joana Choumali featured in our special exhibition.
Maarten van Heemskerck, Giving Drink to the Thirsty, 1552. Brown ink over touches of black chalk and incidental white opaque watercolor, incised, on cream antique laid paper, framing line in brown ink over black chalk. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of an anonymous donor, 1994.155.
Gallery Talk: Italy in the North—Maarten van Heemskerck, A Revolutionary Printmaker
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Come discover the work of Maarten van Heemskerck, the Haarlem painter who represented the Italian Renaissance in the Northern Netherlands.
Keshav Das (painter), Mir ‘Ali Haravi (calligrapher), Album page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, album: early 17th century; painting: c. 1590–1600; calligraphy: c. 1535–45. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Adrienne Rubel Mohrig, 2023.503.
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.
Photo: Alexis Karl
Materials Lab Workshop: The Poetry of Scent—Fragrance in Persian and Indian Gardens
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA
Join artist Alexis Karl to explore aromatics inspired by the gardens of Persia and India and to make your own incense.
Terran Last Gun, Reconstructing the West, 2022. Ink and colored pencil on antique “Journal Day Book Chicago, IL.” on ledgerpaper (dated 1903). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Christian A. Herter, Jr., by exchange, 2024.54.
Gallery Talk: Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Madeline Murphy Turner will discuss a new installation of contemporary drawings that address ecological crises.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.
Photos: Kate Smith and Caitlin Clerkin
Gallery Talk: Investigating Color at Ancient Dura-Europos
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a conservator and curator to learn about recent research into the color and craft of wall painting at ancient Dura-Europos, Syria.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking [CANCELED]
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.
Garden carpet, Iran, 18th century. Cotton warp, wool weft, and pile. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1957.137.
Gallery Talk for Fellows, Friends, and Partners of the Museums: Gardens in the Galleries
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Fellows, Friends, and Partners of the museums are invited to a special gallery talk exploring the Islamic and South Asian art collections.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Opening Celebration: A Roundtable Discussion of The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
To celebrate our new exhibition, join us for a discussion between artists Peter Lipsitt and Marjorie Minkin and art critic Karen Wilkin.
Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!
Kenneth Noland, Ring, 1964. Acrylic on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.201.
Gallery Talk: Kenneth Noland and His Radical Geometry
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A conservator and a curator will discuss their respective approaches to Noland’s stained canvas paintings of chevrons and concentric circles.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.
Carmelo Arden Quin, Lignes Noires, 1952. Alkyd paint on wood. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Modern and Contemporary Acquisition Fund, 2011.497.
Art Study Center Seminar: Experiment and Disruption in Mid-Century Argentine Art
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Madeline Murphy Turner to explore mid-20th-century Argentine experimental art, featuring works recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums.
28th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall
32 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Join us for the premiere of the longest-running youth film festival in the country! A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers will follow.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Matte opaque paint on white paperboard. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Partners Event: Reception and Exhibition Tour of The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
We invite our Partners to a reception and a special curator-led tour of the exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Keshav Das (painter), Mir ‘Ali Haravi (calligrapher), Album page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, album: early 17th century; painting: c. 1590–1600; calligraphy: c. 1535–45. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Adrienne Rubel Mohrig, 2023.503.
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Marjorie Minkin, Kenai II, 1983. Acrylic on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.197. © Marjorie Minkin.
Gallery Talk: The Artist’s Toolbox—Experiments with Color in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Learn about the unusual tools artists used to make some of the colorful abstract works in our exhibition showcasing the Solomon Collection.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Jacob Lawrence, American, The 1920s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974. Screenprint. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lorillard, Division of Loews Theatres, Inc., Transfer from Student Print Rental Program, M26664. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on Thursday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.
Polymnia, c. 1744–45, a Meissen porcelain figurine from the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum beside Arlene Shechet’s Sexy Baby Eyes, 2012; © Arlene Shechet. Image courtesy of the artist.
Gallery Talk: Disrupt the View
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Lynette Roth for a closer look at Arlene Shechet’s one-of-a-kind installation Disrupt the View at the Harvard Art Museums.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.
Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.
Marjorie Minkin, Kenai II, 1983. Acrylic on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.197. © Marjorie Minkin.
Gallery Talk: The Artist’s Toolbox—Experiments with Color in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Learn about the unusual tools artists used to make some of the colorful abstract works in our exhibition showcasing the Solomon Collection.
Elaine Mayes, American, 4th of July N.Y.C., 1978. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, P2002.1.6. © Elaine Mayes.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed for Independence Day.
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Reverse side of Two Lawyers, c. 1865. Oil on panel. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.186.
Gallery Talk: Marks, Stamps, and Tags—Visible Traces of Provenance in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition curator Casey Monahan will discuss the visible traces of ownership seen on works from the Solomon Collection, currently on view.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Keshav Das (painter), Mir ‘Ali Haravi (calligrapher), Album page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, album: early 17th century; painting: c. 1590–1600; calligraphy: c. 1535–45. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Adrienne Rubel Mohrig, 2023.503.
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavyweight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Gallery Talk: “With Love, Jules”—The Paintings of Jules Olitski in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover the work of abstract painter Jules Olitski and learn about his friendship with museum benefactors Arthur and Marny Solomon.
Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.
Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Reverse side of Two Lawyers, c. 1865. Oil on panel. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.186.
Gallery Talk: Marks, Stamps, and Tags—Visible Traces of Provenance in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition curator Casey Monahan will discuss the visible traces of ownership seen on works from the Solomon Collection, currently on view.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch as a Pilgrim, c. 1730. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.123.
Gallery Talk: Gray Area—Compassion and Companionship
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Dig deeper into the timeless tale of Saint Roch and his faithful dog.
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
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