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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.

A drawing on lined paper with cursive handwriting shows a triangular shape in colorful stripes intersecting a striped circle at the top of the paper.

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

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

Madeline Murphy Turner will discuss a new installation of contemporary drawings that address ecological crises.

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.

Two stacked photographs: the top image shows several painted plaster fragments organized by their colors (green, yellow, red, pink, and black); at bottom is a larger painted fragment, with green and red decoration and a black line.

Photos: Kate Smith and Caitlin Clerkin


Gallery Talk: Investigating Color at Ancient Dura-Europos

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

Join a conservator and curator to learn about recent research into the color and craft of wall painting at ancient Dura-Europos, Syria.

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!

A painting shows a series of concentric circles radiating outward in red, orange, and yellow, against a purple field.

Kenneth Noland, Ring, 1964. Acrylic on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.201.


Gallery Talk: Kenneth Noland and His Radical Geometry

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

A conservator and a curator will discuss their respective approaches to Noland’s stained canvas paintings of chevrons and concentric circles.

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 rectangular sculpture features bold black geometric lines on a white undulating surface.

Carmelo Arden Quin, Lignes Noires, 1952. Alkyd paint on wood. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Modern and Contemporary Acquisition Fund, 2011.497.


Art Study Center Seminar: Experiment and Disruption in Mid-Century Argentine Art

Seminar
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Madeline Murphy Turner to explore mid-20th-century Argentine experimental art, featuring works recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums.

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.

A dark bronze sculpture of a man’s upper body.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Head of a Thinker, 1918, cast 1925–26. Bronze. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.196.


Gallery Talk: Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s Head of a Thinker

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

Join curatorial fellow Peter Murphy for an in-depth discussion of Lehmbruck’s 1918 sculpture.

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 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 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 Thursday, 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 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 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!

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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