Exhibitions
Upcoming Exhibitions
Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Explore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana...
The Art of Looking: 150 Years of Art History at Harvard
“Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think, but thousands think for one who can see.” —John Ruskin In 1874–75, the Harvard University course...
Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. A dynamic collaboration between cu...
Past Exhibitions
Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750
Discover a story of cross-cultural artistic connection over 300 years between the Dutch, the Flemish, and the Islamic world. Imagine Me and You unve...
Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Examine the museums’ recent acquisitions, spanning centuries and media. Future Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that...
LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time
Immerse yourself in a day in the life of a contemporary artist through a tour de force of monumental printmaking. LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time present...
Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution
Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica was commissioned by the Spanish government for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. It was exhibited in Josep Lluís Sert’s S...
Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life
See how Wolf Vostell created art, as well as an expansive aesthetic philosophy, that challenged human complacency toward war, genocide, and other cata...
Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade
How did the sale of opium in China by Massachusetts merchants in the 19th century contribute to a growing appetite for Chinese art at Harvard at the s...
A Colloquium in the Visual Arts
The Harvard course A Colloquium in the Visual Arts (Humanities 20) is an introduction to the study of the humanities through major works of art and ar...
Seeing in Art and Medicine
Try your hand at close-looking activities in this interactive exhibition, which examines objects from across the collections through the lens of the m...
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light
Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create ma...
Bosco Sodi: Origen
A new site-specific installation by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi creates a space for contemplation and reflection, marking the first outdoor public art d...