Our galleries are full of stories—this series of talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors. Offered by: Lynette […]

Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. This month’s gathering is extra special because we’ll be celebrating the opening of our exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment. The evening will feature exhibition-related activities. Tours will be available in […]

Join Sam Nehila, curatorial assistant in the Division of European and American Art, for an in-depth discussion about William Hogarth’s print series The Four Stages of Cruelty, on view in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment. Featuring approximately 150 works on paper and other related objects, Dare to Know explores how […]

Four poets will read selections of their work: Loralee Nolletti, Ana Silva, Ben Gantcher, and Rachel Eisler. This will be a closing event on the last day of Douglas Anderson's exhibition - New Work.

Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century, wielding the power to visually articulate, reinforce, or contradict beliefs as well […]

Funerary Portraits of Roman Egypt: Facing Forward is a team-curated exhibition that brings together art history, Egyptology, and conservation science to illuminate artists’ processes and the life stories of the people depicted in funerary portraits. Join two exhibition curators as they describe what can be learned when close looking, scientific analysis, and community collaboration combine. Our […]

Join Susannah Ray, guest curator of New York, New York: Photographs from the Collection, for a curator-led tour of the exhibition. She will share her insights and thoughts about the photographs she selected.   Admission is free. RSVP to 516.463.5672

Painter Jim Weidle will showcase some of his recent oil paintings at Blue Mountain Gallery this October. Jim's work spans the gamut of subject matter, ranging from sprawling landscapes to intimate interiors. Artist Statement:"Painting has the decency to hold still, as few dare or can, permitting one's eye a tiny but wild freedom: to travel […]

In her installation Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums, contemporary sculptor Arlene Shechet presents her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese porcelain objects from the Harvard Art Museums. Join curator Lynette Roth as she talks with Shechet about her artistic process, her past collaborations with German porcelain manufactory workers, and […]

This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason. It invites visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. The […]

This series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will […]

This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason. It invites visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. The […]

The Limner Gallery features a group exhibition of figurative work on view from October 13 - November 5, 2022 with a reception for the artists on Friday, Oct. 15, 3-5pm. Image: "Critical Family" © Lowell Miller 2018, ceramic, epoxy, oil paint More about Lowell Miller and his work: https://bit.ly/ccaplmiller Strange Figurations Limner Gallery 123 Warren Street Hudson, […]

This workshop accompanies the exhibition Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward, which invites viewers to ask more about the complicated histories of these portraits and the people they depict. The exhibition explores what can be learned about the artistic process and current condition of these works through scientific analysis and technical research conducted by staff […]

On Thursday, October 20, 2022, in conjunction with Museum After Hours, from 6 PM until 7:30 PM, Pike School of Art, in partnership with the Mississippi Museum of Art, will host a listening session of Charles Edward William’s work, FORWARD and a panel discussion about the works place in the history of the Civil Rights […]

Join exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy for an in-depth tour of Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view through January 15, 2023. She will share insights about how works on paper played a critical role in the 18th century, wielding the power to visually articulate, reinforce, or contradict beliefs as well […]

Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe, browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art. Explore […]

Join us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. Bring your friends to mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, chat over a snack or drink at Jenny’s Cafe, browse the shop, and of course, wander the galleries to take in our world-class collections of art. Explore […]

Mariette Pathy Allen has been photographing the transgender, genderfluid, and intersex communities for over 40 years. Her photography and multiple written works on the subject of gender consciousness have brought the topic to the forefront of institutions and people across the globe. Her work has been recognized and archived by Duke University’s Rare Book and Manuscripts Library and The Sallie Bingham […]

Since the '90s, Kaethe Kauffman has worked with the female body studying and documenting its movement and creating out of this performative process, a series of abstracted images. These artworks, inspired by the practice of yoga, investigate the theme of freedom by challenging the objectification by society of women's bodies. Using string dipped in paint, […]

This series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will […]

Want to know what goes on in the conservation lab? Join conservators Penley Knipe and Christina Taylor as they discuss different treatment approaches to two Dutch drawings currently on display, and what effects their treatment can have on the artwork and public reception. Led by: Penley Knipe, Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works […]

Join curator Horace Ballard for an exploration of the observation and documentation of astronomical events in the 18th century as exemplified in a drawing by British artist Paul Sandby. The work is featured in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view until January 15, 2023. Featuring approximately […]

Led by director and exhibition curator Karen T. Albert, learn about the evolution of printmaking methods including an explanation of different techniques of relief, intaglio, and the planographic methods of lithography and screenprinting. Each printmaking method produces a work on paper that has an individual and identifiable quality.   Admission is free. RSVP to 516.463.5672

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors. Gallery talks are […]

Join Ben Sibson, Ph.D. candidate in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, for an in-depth discussion about the depiction of the human body in selected works on view in the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment. He will share insights about artists’ representations of the human form, focusing on Jacques-Fabien […]

Note that this workshop takes place at an off-site location, Active Learning Labs. Location details are below. This workshop accompanies the exhibition Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward, which invites viewers to ask more about the complicated histories of these portraits and the people they depict. It also explores what can be learned about the […]

This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason. It invites visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. The […]

Join art historian Paris A. Spies-Gans, of the Harvard Society of Fellows, for an in-depth discussion about works of art made by women in Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view until January 15, 2023. Spies-Gans will examine objects by a range of artists, with particular attention given to Marguerite […]

This series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will […]