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Year in Review: 2022

Take a moment to look back with us as we celebrate 2022!

December 20, 2022

Hands are holding a cell phone that is displaying an image of the Harvard Art Museums' website homepage.

Harvard Art Museums from Home

Everything you need for a virtual visit to the museums—online events, audio and video offerings, activity books to download, and more.

May 13, 2022

Two paintings appear next to each other in a gallery. On the left, positioned on a gray flat pillar in front of a gallery wall, is a multicolored abstract painting that shows a group of people surrounded by various patterns; on the right is an abstract painting hanging on the wall that depicts a close-up of a gathering of human-like shapes. Label text is to the right of the painting on the wall.

Building Community through Art

Francesca Bewer, from the Harvard Art Museums, and Erin Muirhead McCarty, from Community Art Center, discuss their collaboration on a youth program last summer in Cambridge.

By Andres Mendoza

May 11, 2022

In an art gallery, the left and right walls have built-in glass cases featuring various objects, such as decorative pieces and weapons. There is a pedestal in the middle of the room that has a large bronze vase in a glass case. Three words describing the materials represented in the gallery—

Getting Schooled by Kids: What We Learned in the Age of Remote Teaching

Three museum staff members who specialize in ancient art share the lessons they learned from teaching remotely.

By Jen Thum, Frances Gallart Marqués, Yan Yang

January 27, 2022

Open Doors

Take a moment to look back with us as we celebrate our reopening in 2021.

December 16, 2021

This installation shot shows part of a gallery with light gray walls and a brown wood floor. On the two visible walls hang eleven framed paintings. In the center of the floor stands a square-shaped wooden table; atop it are three porcelain objects within a vitrine.

Reflecting on Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade

How can museums—themselves so often enmeshed with histories of slavery, colonization, and white supremacy—be mobilized for racial justice?

By Sarah Mallory, Kéla Jackson, Rachel Burke, Joanna Sheers Seidenstein

October 22, 2021

This composite image shows three horses grazing in the rolling hills of an open pasture. The left half of the image, which shows a horse in the foreground and part of another horse, is a full-color painting. The horses are reddish in color, and the surrounding landscape includes greens, reds, and blues. The image continues on the right side in black and white outline and shows the rest of one horse and another one leaning down to eat grass.

August 6, 2021

There are two images side by side. The image on the right is a painted fan. It features two white magnolia flowers, one facing downward and one facing more upward, and several large green leaves set against a smoky gray background. The image on the right is a composite image of three photographs of a living magnolia plant, which has white petals, bright green leaves, and a magenta pink center.

Painting Edo and the Arnold Arboretum

Painted plants come to life through an ongoing collaboration with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University inspired by the exhibition Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection.

April 15, 2021

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