Join curatorial fellow Madeline Murphy Turner, the Emily Rauh Pulitzer Curatorial Fellow in Contemporary Drawing, for a discussion on Ralston Crawford’s drawing Maitland Bridge (1938) and his related sketchbook. Both reveal the artist’s fascination with landscapes of industrial architecture. We will also delve into Crawford’s artistic practice as it relates to works by other artists […]

Suzanne Chamlin, Associate Professor of Studio Art and an artist whose own practice focuses on landscape, leads a soothing workshop using watercolors, inspired by the landscape paintings on view in Dusk & Dawn: Tonalism in Connecticut. The free workshop will take place in the Museum Classroom on Thursday, February 27 from 5-6:30 p.m. Due to […]

In this seminar, you will get a behind-the-scenes view of recent and ongoing projects undertaken in the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Staff members from the Straus Center will share some works in progress and details about the numerous techniques and materials available to them in the care of objects and advancement of […]

In 1971, photographer Susan Meiselas created a series of portraits as part of her master’s degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Meiselas’s project involved creating portraits of the diverse group of people who rented rooms in the boarding house where she lived and then asking them to respond to the way they saw […]

Saturday March 1, 3-6pm Pamela Berkeley makes paintings from close and direct observation. She combines still life objects (some arranged as magical altars), landscape, portraiture of people and animals. Her main preoccupation in painting is the tension between the still objects close to the picture plane and the distant imagery that is farthest away. Foreground […]

Join us for an in-depth discussion featuring artist Yoshida Ayomi in conversation with curatorial fellow Lillian Wies. Yoshida’s work deals with themes of legacy, transience, and the environment, and she is known for her large-scale, intricate installations that incorporate traditional Japanese printmaking techniques while also pushing the boundaries of the medium. Yoshida is the fourth […]

Come discover the work of the leading Haarlem painter who represented the Italian Renaissance in the Northern Netherlands in the mid-16th century. Maarten van Heemskerck’s artistic style was profoundly shaped by his extended stay in Italy (1532–36/37), where he drew copies of ancient sculpture and architecture and studied the works of Michelangelo and other significant […]

Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about a few of the 19th-century American women whose portraits are displayed in our galleries. This talk by graduate curatorial intern Saffron Hooper Sener will explore Portrait of a Young Woman in White by Julien Hudson, Woman with Spectacles by William Matthew Prior, Portrait of a Young Woman by Joshua Johnson, and Harriet Leavens by Ammi Phillips. […]

In anticipation of International Women’s Day on March 8, curatorial fellow Janet O’Brien will examine how the image of the Virgin Mary, already the most represented woman in western painting, grew in popularity as a subject in Mughal India and Safavid Iran from the late 16th century onward. Mary is venerated by Muslims as well […]

Join us for the film screening of Art for Everybody and a conversation with filmmakers Miranda Yousef and Tim Rummel. We’re thrilled to welcome Yousef back to the Cambridge area; she not only grew up in Boston but she also graduated from Harvard. The conversation will be moderated by Mike Shum, award-winning documentary filmmaker and current fellow […]

Join Dutch painter Nard Kwast for a daylong hands-on workshop in which you’ll learn how to paint with the methods and in the style of Vermeer, Rembrandt, and other 17th-century Dutch artists. A celebrated participant (and finalist) in the popular Dutch TV programs Project Rembrandt, The New Vermeer, and The Secret of the Master, Kwast will share stories […]

Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer. Led by: Peter Murphy, Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join […]

Join Liz Lerman and Paloma McGregor for a screening of short films documenting aspects of their work-in-progress dance-based public art project My Body is a Library. The project centers libraries as places of refuge, research, and medicine, and wonders how our bodies also hold knowledge, stories, and even the law. This iteration, in partnership with the […]

Join Marie Prunières, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures at Harvard, to learn more about the photographic tapestries of Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor […]

Join multimedia artist Millicent Young and musician Timothy Hill for a live performance of the installation Sutra for Belonging, part of the exhibition Cusp at The Hyde Collection. This transdisciplinary, choreographed experience features singing and spoken word by Young with Hill playing instruments including guitar, lyre, and tanpura. The performance is part of the Art After Hours and Monthly Mixer series at The […]

Join us for an intimate conversation in our studio with Tandem Press artist-in-residence Marie Lorenz. Come early for a seat. Space is limited. Marie Lorenz (b. 1973, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) roots her work in exploration and narrative. Since 2002, Lorenz has been traveling various urban waterways in boats she designs and builds, […]

Katharina Sieverding’s Transformer (1973–74) is a monumental slide projection that cycles through images that combine the artist’s face with that of her collaborator, Klaus Mettig. Curatorial fellow Peter Murphy will discuss the history of this work—including a more recent iteration, Transformer Cyan Solarisation 1973/74 (2023), that is also on view—and its exploration of gender as an evolving and expansive […]

In this lecture, Frédérique Duyrat, keeper of the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, will look at how coins were used in daily transactions on the Athenian agora during the 5th century BCE. Drawing on material culture, iconography, and textual evidence to reconstruct daily monetary practices in classical Athens, Duyrat will […]