On this tour, Genesis Nam ’24 will put visitors in the shoes of the radiologists who have participated in the Seeing in Art and Medical Imaging program, which is offered by the Harvard Art Museums in partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The program promotes empathy, mindfulness, and tolerance for ambiguity in the medical community through conversations about works of art, focused on themes such as care, objectivity, and power. The stops on the tour are Shutter (c) (2006), a glazed stoneware sculpture by Rosemarie Trockel, and an Attic grave stele, Woman dying in childbirth (c. 330 BCE). Both of these works appear in the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine.

Either before or after the tour, be sure to visit the Seeing in Art and Medicine exhibition on Level 3, which examines objects from across the collections through the lens of the medical humanities and the human questions that doctors face in their daily work.

Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Drop in and join the conversation! And find out what the Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram @harvardarthappens.

Please check in with museum staff at the Admissions desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.