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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 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: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

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
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 made with bright green acrylic paint, which appears to have been pulled up and down the paper.

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
Gallery Talk
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.

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 young woman in a gallery of paintings and sculptures speaks to an audience.

Photo: Rebecca Leopoldina Torres


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A brown piece of wood with a jagged brown edge is covered with attached tags and labels featuring text in many languages.

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
Gallery Talk
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.

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 young man in a gallery of colorful paintings speaks to an audience.

Photo: Rebecca Leopoldina Torres


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A young woman in a gallery full of silver objects and artworks speaks in front of an audience.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

This sepia-toned engraving shows Mary and baby Jesus walking in front of a stone structure with arches. They are preceded by angels scattering flowers and playing music.

Jacques de Gheyn II, Dutch, The Return from the Flight into Egypt, c. 1592. Engraving on off-white antique laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.286.


Gallery Talk: Print Perfect—Dutch Printmaking in the 1590s
Gallery Talk
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join curatorial fellow Susanne Bartels for a close look at Dutch prints in the exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond.

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: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

A young woman in a gallery full of elaborately framed paintings speaks in front of a small audience.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A young woman in a gallery of paintings and sculptures speaks to an audience.

Photo: Rebecca Leopoldina Torres


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our 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.

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 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
Gallery Talk
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.

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 young woman looks up at a large contemporary painting and begins to address a group of visitors in front of her.

Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A group of young people look intently at a large ceramic jar in the middle of an art gallery while a young woman wearing a lanyard talks to them.

Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

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: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

Two people happily chat on a bench with a large, black abstract sculpture behind them on a gallery wall.

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 abstract painting features three oblique chevron shapes, each painted in a shade of blue: aqua, medium blue, and periwinkle.

Kenneth Noland, Karma, 1964. PVA paint on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Kenneth Noland, 1965.22. © Kenneth Noland Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.


Gallery Talk: Conserving Karma
Gallery Talk
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join paintings conservator Ellen Davis for a talk about the history and conservation of Kenneth Noland’s Karma (1964), which is now on view.

A young woman in a gallery of paintings and sculptures speaks to an audience.

Photo: Rebecca Leopoldina Torres


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A smiling young woman with a clipboard looks at an abstract sculpture in the foreground while a few museumgoers look at her or the art.

Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

Painted plaster bust of a Black woman, with ropes around her chest; she is looking up and to her left.

After Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born Enslaved!, original 1868, cast before 1972. Painted plaster. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.224.


Gallery Talk: Beneath the Surface of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!
Gallery Talk
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for a conversation about the restoration of a painted plaster version of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculpture Why Born Enslaved!

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 young man in a gallery of colorful paintings speaks to an audience.

Photo: Rebecca Leopoldina Torres


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A young woman in a gallery full of elaborately framed paintings speaks in front of a small audience.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham


Summer Spotlight Tour
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program on a thematic tour of a few works on view in our galleries.

A brown piece of wood with a jagged brown edge is covered with attached tags and labels featuring text in many languages.

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
Gallery Talk
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.

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 line of people on a stone staircase waiting to enter a large brick building with a brightly lit, ornate entry doorway.

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!

A large crowd of students socialize in an interior courtyard at a museum. Tables with food, a DJ booth, and a hanging sculpture are visible.

© Susan Young Photography


Harvard Student After Hours
Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Harvard students! Head to the museums to kick off the school year with art, fun, food, friends, and more.

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 group of people enjoying a coloring activity with bright orange posters in the background.

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!

A black and white photograph shows a large building complex, with several old-fashioned vehicles on the street out front.

Exterior view, Adolphus Busch Hall, Busch-Reisinger Museum, undated. Photographs of the Harvard Art Museums (HC 22), folder 3.125. Harvard Art Museums, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.


A Stroll through History at the Harvard Art Museums
Special Event
Harvard Art Museums
29 Kirkland Street and 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Curious about our historical spaces and hidden gems? Join us for a walking tour that includes three historical spaces at the museums.

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!

Drawing of the side profile of a girl with her hair over her shoulder and her head turned to the right.

William Michael Harnett, Profile Portrait of a Girl, 1881. Charcoal with touches of white chalk on buff wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs, 1965.120.


Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

Drawing of a woman wearing a feathered hat, with an open book in her lap, sitting before an easel.

Georges Pierre Seurat, Woman Seated by an Easel, c. 1884–88. Conté crayon on beige wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906, 1951.70.


Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

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!

Drawing of a woman seated with her left hand shielding her face and her right palm held up against her chest, facing outward.

Max Beckmann, Seated Woman Shading Her Face, 1949. Charcoal and black chalk on off-white modern laid paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Perry Rathbone, 1998.10.


Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

A drawing of a dark-colored head floating above a barren landscape; the face is gazing down, and a tendril is protruding from the head’s left side.

Odilon Redon, Chimera, 1880–95. Charcoal on buff wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Richard B. Sisson and through the generosity of Anthony and Celeste Meier, 2005.131.


Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

A drawing featuring a mass of intersecting black lines that resemble pipes. Some of the lines form objects: a barrel, a hanging lamp, and a bathtub. A figure can be seen bending down.

Erwin Spuler, Untitled (As the Fire Fell from the Sky), c. 1945/6. Black chalk on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Busch-Reisinger Acquisition Fund, 2017.50.


Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

A drawing of a dark-skinned woman wearing glasses, with her arms crossed, looking down; she wears a white jersey.

John Wilson, Violet, 1971. Charcoal and black and white crayon on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2024.151. © Estate of John Wilson.


Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Tour
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026.

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!

June 2025