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A photographic print on fabric features a Black man wearing a red T-shirt  with text that reads “You talkin’ to me?.” Blue threads hang from the bottom of the work. Une impression photographique sur tissu représente un homme noir portant un T-shirt rouge avec le texte « You talkin’ to me? ». Des fils bleus pendent du bas de l’œuvre.

Joana Choumali, You Talkin’ To Me?, 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

Gallery Talk
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.

A sepia-toned etching of palm trees swaying in the wind along a coastline.

William H. Drury, Trade Winds, 20th century. Etching. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of E. Dudley James, M15140.


Gallery Talk: Wind as Energy, Wind as Line

Gallery Talk
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Cambra Sklarz for a talk about a new installation on the theme of wind, featuring works on paper from the 17th to the 20th century.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

A room with several arches and figural statues in the corners with an organ musical instrument in the center.

1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.


Midday Organ Recital: Ethan Haman

Performance
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.

A group of teens stand and pose on a stage.

Photo courtesy of Mass Poetry


Intercollegiate Poetry Showcase with Mass Poetry

Special Event
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!

This dark-hued woodcut print shows a crowd of people staring blankly at the viewer. The sky above them resembles waves.

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]

Seminar
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.

A painting depicts a sunset scene with two owls perched on a branch in a flat landscape.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A smiling young woman seated in a cafe terrace gestures toward a nearly abstract painting that appears to float beside her. It represents a close-up view of folding red and pink forms.

One work Jieyan Wang will spotlight is Red and Pink (1925) by Georgia O’Keeffe.


Spotlight Tour: Floribunda Stories, with Jieyan Wang ’25

Tour
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.

A monochrome drawing of one man given water to another man with one arm and a crutch.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A print on fabric features a Black woman in a white T-shirt with the words “Female equals future.” Blue, yellow, and green threads hang from the bottom of the work. Une impression sur tissu représente une femme noire portant un T-shirt blanc avec les mots « Female equals future ». Des fils bleus, jaunes et verts pendent du bas de l’œuvre.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A room with several arches and figural statues in the corners with an organ musical instrument in the center.

1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.


Midday Organ Recital: Heinrich Christensen

Performance
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.

A photograph of two porcelain sculptures, one a figural sculpture and the other an abstract sculpture.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A group of people stand and chat on steps leading to the entrance of a brick building with large windows and classical architectural details.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography


Harvard Art Museums at Night

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,

We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

This album page features a painting of a seated woman, framed by Persian calligraphy and an outer floral border.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A smiling young woman, wearing light-colored clothes, sits on a red bench before a window next to a floating image of a tall, ornately decorated old clock.

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

Tour
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

In this photomontage, two smiling young women stand indoors between tall windows, gesturing toward a mottled brown storage jar that appears to float between them.

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

Tour
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.

A print on fabric features the image of a Black man wearing a black shirt that reads “I scored in the 80s.” Teal and purple threads hang from the bottom of the work.  Une impression sur tissu représente un homme noir portant un T-shirt noir avec l'inscription « I scored in the 80s ». Des fils turquoise et violets pendent au bas de l’œuvre.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A grid of 16 tiles with blue ornament and tulip designs.

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

Lecture
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.

A movie poster shows a robot and a dog walking under a movie marquee in a city.

© Neon


Film Screening: Robot Dreams

Film
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Take a break from studying to watch the animated film Robot Dreams!

A black and white film still shows a clock with sculpted figures, with planets and bursts in the background.

Dario Robleto, Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, 2024. Courtesy of the artist. © Dario Robleto.


Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice

Film
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.

This black and white photograph shows a contemporary sculpture comprising several metal discs and rods of varying shapes.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

Against a dark background, a woman wearing a gray top and a beaded necklace holds a black and white skull illustration over her right eye.

Photo: Henk Nieman. Courtesy of the artist and Mendes Wood DM. Copyright of the artist.


Annual Student Lecture: Rosana Paulino

Lecture
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

Graffiti-style title in black text that reads “Exit through the Gift Shop”; below the text is an image of a rat wearing star-shaped sunglasses.

© Paranoid Pictures


Film Screening: Exit Through the Gift Shop

Film
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Take a break from studying to watch an unconventional documentary, directed by Banksy.

Two irregularly shaped silver-gray coins with relief decoration on each: the one at left is a profile of a man; the one at right is a man in a throne.

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

Gallery Talk
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Discover how Hellenistic artisans experimented in drawing that thin line between humanity and divinity.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

A print on fabric features a Black woman in a yellow T-shirt with the words “Touch me and your first boxing lesson is free.” Green, yellow, and pink threads hang from the bottom of the work. Une impression sur tissu représente une femme noire portant un T-shirt jaune avec l’inscription « Touch me and your first boxing lesson is free ». Des fils verts, jaunes et roses pendent au bas de l’œuvre.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A print on fabric features the image of a Black man wearing a black shirt that reads “I’d hit that.” Red threads hang from the bottom of the work. Un motif sur tissu représente l’image d’un homme noir portant un t-shirt noir avec l’inscription « I’d hit that ». Des fils rouges pendent du bas de l’œuvre.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A monochrome drawing of one man given water to another man with one arm and a crutch.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

This album page features a painting of a seated woman, framed by Persian calligraphy and an outer floral border.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

This woodcut print shows a well-dressed man and woman standing on a rocky shore, staring off into the sea beyond.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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]

Tour
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.

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Tour
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.

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Lecture
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.

A bustling event in a spacious indoor museum courtyard with high arches and three levels. The lower level is filled with people socializing, mingling, and enjoying drinks at tables covered with teal tablecloths.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography


Harvard Art Museums at Night

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,

We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

This woodcut print shows a well-dressed man and woman standing on a rocky shore, staring off into the sea beyond.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A group of teens is seated on a panel, and one teen in a striped shirt is speaking into a microphone. A screen behind them reads “DIYDS!! Do It Your Damn Self!! Film Festival.”

28th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival

Film
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.

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Tour
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.

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow, and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Supporter Event
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

This album page features a painting of a seated woman, framed by Persian calligraphy and an outer floral border.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

This screenprint shows a group of brown-skinned figures gathered in a large room with a wooden floor and blue walls. The figures have few facial features. The figures’ clothes are either black, red, yellow, blue, or beige or in combination of those colors.

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

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on Wednesday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.

A photograph of two porcelain sculptures, one a figural sculpture and the other an abstract sculpture.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

This woodcut print shows a well-dressed man and woman standing on a rocky shore, staring off into the sea beyond.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A group of people are gathered around a high table, holding drinks and smiling. The background is softly blurred.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography


Harvard Art Museums at Night

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,

We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Tour
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.

A black and white photograph of a city skyline at night, lit up by fireworks.

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

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Harvard Art Museums will be closed for Independence Day.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

This album page features a painting of a seated woman, framed by Persian calligraphy and an outer floral border.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

This woodcut print shows a well-dressed man and woman standing on a rocky shore, staring off into the sea beyond.

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

Gallery Talk
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.

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Tour
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

A painting of a man and a woman standing on a colorful rocky shore facing away from the viewer.

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

Tour
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.

Abstracted brushstrokes of a pink, yellow and red sky with a large black form on the left-hand side.

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

Tour
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.

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

A painting of a seated young man holding a long staff, with a dog at his feet.

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

Gallery Talk
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Dig deeper into the timeless tale of Saint Roch and his faithful dog.

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

A man reads a picture book to a group of families in a gallery.

Photo: Jarvis Subia


Second Saturdays Story Time

Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

April 2025