Exhibitions

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Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation


University Research Gallery, Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Discover an array of artworks that transcend borders and spotlight the complexities of modern German identity. Made in Germany? Art and Identity in a Global Nation takes an unprecedented look at German art since 1980. Featuring artists from different generations and diverse backgrounds, the exhibition complicates notions of...

Upcoming Exhibitions

Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces Poster Image

Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces


University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Explore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana...
Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking Poster Image

Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking


Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. A dynamic collaboration between cu...

Past Exhibitions

Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750 Poster Image

Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750


University Study Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Discover a story of cross-cultural artistic connection over 300 years between the Dutch, the Flemish, and the Islamic world. Imagine Me and You unve...
Future Minded: New Works in the Collection Poster Image

Future Minded: New Works in the Collection


Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Examine the museums’ recent acquisitions, spanning centuries and media. Future Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that...
LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time Poster Image

LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time


Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Immerse yourself in a day in the life of a contemporary artist through a tour de force of monumental printmaking. LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time present...
Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution Poster Image

Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution


University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica was commissioned by the Spanish government for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. It was exhibited in Josep Lluís Sert’s S...
Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life Poster Image

Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life


University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

See how Wolf Vostell created art, as well as an expansive aesthetic philosophy, that challenged human complacency toward war, genocide, and other cata...
Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade Poster Image

Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade


Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

How did the sale of opium in China by Massachusetts merchants in the 19th century contribute to a growing appetite for Chinese art at Harvard at the s...
A Colloquium in the Visual Arts Poster Image

A Colloquium in the Visual Arts


University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

The Harvard course A Colloquium in the Visual Arts (Humanities 20) is an introduction to the study of the humanities through major works of art and ar...
Seeing in Art and Medicine Poster Image

Seeing in Art and Medicine


University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Try your hand at close-looking activities in this interactive exhibition, which examines objects from across the collections through the lens of the m...
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light Poster Image

American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light


University Study Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create ma...
Bosco Sodi: Origen Poster Image

Bosco Sodi: Origen


Buddhist Sculpture, Early Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museums

A new site-specific installation by Mexican artist Bosco Sodi creates a space for contemplation and reflection, marking the first outdoor public art d...