Calendar
Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Partners Event: Forbes Pigment Collection Tour and Materials Lab Workshop
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
We invite our Partners to a special tour of the Forbes Pigment Collection, followed by a pigment-focused workshop in the Materials Lab.
1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.
Midday Organ Recital: Erica Johnson
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 Marcella Haden
HUNAP Annual Lecture: Angeline Boulley
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
The Harvard University Native American Program (HUNAP) and the Harvard Art Museums present a conversation with author Angeline Boulley.
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.
Hannah Gadway with works by John Singer Sargent in the Art Study Center. Photo: Camran Mani.
Art Study Center Seminar for Harvard Students: John Singer Sargent and Harvard, with Hannah Gadway ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
In this examination of Sargent’s paintings, sketchbooks, and more, Hannah Gadway ’25 will explore the artist’s deep relationship with Harvard.
Jin Wenjin (Jin Jin) 金文璡 (金璡), Ten Thousand Bamboo in Mist and Rain, 1438. Handscroll; ink on paper; with artist inscription and signature reading “Jin Jin Yanhui Xie”; multiple colophons. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Edward B. Bruce Collection of Chinese Paintings; Gift of Galen L. Stone, 1923.156.
First/Hand Fridays for Harvard Students—Ten Thousand Bamboo in Mist and Rain: A Poetic Journey
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Calling all Harvard students! In this First/Hand Fridays session, you’ll get a rare opportunity to view a 15th-century Chinese handscroll.
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.
Coffee with Curators for Friends, Fellows, and Partners of the Museums
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Friends, Fellows, and Partners are invited to enjoy a special presentation about our exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking.
One work Isabelle Halsey will spotlight is Calyx krater: Return of Hephaistos to Olympos (c. 500 BCE), attributed to the Kleophrades Painter.
Spotlight Tour: Good Taste, with Isabelle Halsey ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Isabelle Halsey ’25 will discuss a variety of works that shed light on the ongoing history of what constitutes “good taste.”
Katharina Sieverding, Transformer (gallery installation shot), 1973–74. Digital slide projection. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2024.3. © Katharina Sieverding.
Gallery Talk: Katharina Sieverding: Transformer
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join curatorial fellow Peter Murphy for an in-depth discussion of Katharina Sieverding’s Transformer.
Photo: Katherine Santos
Materials Lab Workshop: Indigenous Weaving Workshop, with Katherine Santos
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA
Katherine Santos, a member of the Choctaw-Apache Tribe, will lead this workshop exploring the intersection of weaving and storytelling.
Spotlight Tour: The Art of Becoming, with Varya Lyapneva ’26
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Varya Lyapneva will explore how artists create identities for themselves and their subjects—and the limits of their control.
Spotlight Tour: Sightseeing, with Soleil Saint-Cyr ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Soleil Saint-Cyr will explore urban landscapes and how interactions between public and private spaces shape our experiences.
Sophia Scott ’25 and Edmonia Lewis’s Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871) meet eye to eye.
Spotlight Tour: Headspace, with Sophia Scott ‘25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Sophia Scott will explore bust-length sculpture as a form of visual biography.
A view of the Monumental Mudbrick Structure at Sardis, showcasing the newly installed covering, which was designed to protect the Lydian fortification wall and adjacent structures from the elements, with archaeologist Okan Emre Güney. This covering was made possible through the generous support of the William C. Kohler Bequest. © Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College.
Research and Excavations at Sardis
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Join us for the Sardis Biennial Lecture, with field director Nicholas D. Cahill sharing recent excavation results and discoveries.
Joana Choumali, in Kantamanto Market, Accra, Ghana, January 26, 2023. Photo: Maria Pia Bernardoni.
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 Ivorian artist Joana Choumali to discuss her photographic textiles featured in our special exhibition.
1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.
Midday Organ Recital: Dina Foster-Osbourne
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.
Gallery Talk: Grief Made Marble—Funerary Sculpture in Classical Athens
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Seth Estrin will examine the relationship between sculpture and emotion through an ancient grave stele for a young girl from Athens.
Joana Choumali, 2024. Photo: Seibou Traore.
Artist Talk with Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces/ Rencontre avec l’artiste Joana Choumali: Les langues des marchés ouest-africains
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs, Entrée par Broadway pour les programmes du soir
Join us for an artist talk with Joana Choumali and her conversation with curators Ilisa Barbash and Mitra Abbaspour.
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.
One of the works Jade Xiao will spotlight is Composite Portrait of a Man (Roman Egypt, early 2nd century CE).
Spotlight Tour: What’s Real?, with Jade Xiao ’27
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Jade Xiao will explore how art exists both within reality and makes its own realities.
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!
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.
Spotlight Tour: Contained, with Priya Allen ’27
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Priya Allen will explore the design and politics of historical drinking vessels and containers.
One of the works Hannah Gadway will spotlight is James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s painting Nocturne in Blue and Silver (c. 1871–72), which figured in the artist’s famous libel lawsuit against a critic.
Spotlight Tour: Art and Law, with Hannah Gadway ’25
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Hannah Gadway will explore the intersection of art and law, particularly how the law has served to protect artists, art, and collectors.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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!
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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