Rembrandt and the Aesthetics of Technique
This exhibition marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn’s birth. With more than 30 artworks drawn from the collections of the Art Museums and Harvard’s Houghton Library and enhanced...
This exhibition marks the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn’s birth. With more than 30 artworks drawn from the collections of the Art Museums and Harvard’s Houghton Library and enhanced...
Imagine a stroll through ancient Athens among colorful statues and brightly decorated temples—in contrast with the colorless stone ruins that survive today. This exhibition presents full-size copies of Greek and...
Between 1912 and 1914, Fernand Léger executed a large cycle of works known as Contrasts of Forms. The series embraces the genres of landscape, still life, and figure, but at...
This exhibition will showcase the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s newly acquired replica of László Moholy-Nagy’s seminal kinetic sculpture Light Prop for an Electric Stage (1930). Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) was one of the great...
This exhibition presents a survey of over 50 works drawn predominantly from the Fogg's extraordinary collection of American art. The period 1875-1950 was a golden age in American watercolor, when...
Rebecca Horn (German, b. 1944) is an internationally recognized contemporary artist, best known for her multimedia approach to art making. Her art can be understood as a “work in progress,”...
Sharon Lockhart is internationally recognized for films and photographs that frame quiet moments of everyday life while also exploring the subtle relationship between the two media. Pine Flat, her newest...
Questioning the modern Western intellectual categories that distinguish art from artifact, specimen from tool, and the historical from the anthropological, Tangible Things brings together materials from Harvard's museum and archival...
This installation highlights the coin collection of the German archaeologist and art historian Margarete Bieber in the context of her life and career. Born in Germany, Bieber overcame discrimination against...
The hybrid Indo-European style known as Company painting developed in India beginning in the late 18th century, when agents of the British East India Company emerged as important patrons of...
Curatorial fellow Katherine Mintie shares works from the Harvard Art Museums collections that address the struggle for full and equal voting rights, from Emancipation to the Civil Rights Movement.
Examine beautifully preserved Japanese manuscripts in the Harvard Art Museums through a free online course.
While the museums have been undergoing renovation, our staff have been working hard to strengthen connections between students and the Harvard Art Museums, developing programs that will more fully integrate the museums into intellectual life on campus.
The student guide program is back in full swing, offering tours on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays through December 1.
Merchandise in the Harvard Art Museums’ shop includes one-of-a-kind gifts by small, independent, and local producers. Many of the carefully curated selections reflect the objects and materials in and around the building, such as paper, wood, metals, and textiles.
After successfully rebuilding the Harvard Art Museums, and more than a decade at the helm, Director Thomas W. Lentz will step down on July 1.
Sculptor and artist Liz Glynn talks to us about the works she created while a visiting artist at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts: full-scale replicas of Le Corbusier’s iconic furniture using recycled concrete from the Harvard Art Museums renovation project
The opening campaign of the Harvard Art Museums is in full swing, counting down to November 16, the day we open our new facility to the public.
Thanks to a team of conservators and engineers, the Harvard Art Museums’ mural Hunger March (1933), by Lewis Rubenstein and Rico Lebrun, has successfully returned to the museums after a complicated move from its original location at the Fogg Museum to its space in the new facility.
It’s been a terrific year full of productivity and excitement for us, not only in preparation for opening our new facility, but also because of the launch of Index. Our team of writers and photographers has really enjoyed researching stories and capturing events. Even though deadlines were always lo...