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Exhibition Tour: Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life

A magazine spread is obscured by a gray substance, rendering the images and text mostly illegible, except for an image of a soda glass, a soldier, and a headline.
Wolf Vostell, German, Coca Cola 2, 1964. Solvent on printed paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in memory of Eda K. Loeb, 2023.450. © The Wolf Vostell Estate.

Tour

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

This event requires registration; see further details below.

Join curator Kyle Stephan for a closer look at the objects and themes of the exhibition Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life (January 20–May 5, 2024). Stephan will share insights about how the Fluxus artist developed his expansive aesthetic philosophy of dé-coll/age to challenge human complacency toward war, genocide, and other catastrophic world events.

Led by:
Kyle Stephan, Exhibition Curator

Tours are limited to 18 people and registration is required. You can register by clicking on the event on this form, beginning at 10am the day of the tour.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk.

The Harvard Art Museums are now offering free admission every day, Tuesday through Sunday. Please see the museum visit page to learn about our general policies for visiting the museums.

Support for Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life is provided by the Ernst A. Teves Memorial Fund and the Care of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection Endowment. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. In addition, modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.

The Harvard Art Museums are committed to accessibility for all visitors. For anyone requiring accessibility accommodations for our programs, please contact us at am_register@harvard.edu at least 48 hours in advance.