Celebrate Byrdcliffe with music by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason honoring Kerrie Buitrago
31 Mercer Street, New York, NY, United StatesA special fundraiser for the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild is accompanied by cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a silent art auction, and live music by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason at the historic Byrdcliffe Barn in Woodstock, NY. This special annual fundraiser honors Kerrie Buitrago, recently retired from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, and her contributions to the Woodstock Byrdcliffe […]
Spotlight Tour: Women’s Health and Art, with Eve Crompton ’24
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn this tour, Eve Crompton ’24 will analyze historical social attitudes toward female health and illness as she examines a selection of representations of women in art. She will look at an Attic grave stele, Woman dying in childbirth (c. 330 BCE); the painting Mother and Child (c. 1901), which Pablo Picasso was inspired to make after visiting a French […]
Spotlight Tour: Food for Thought, with Hannah Gadway ’25
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAOn this tour, Hannah Gadway ’25 will explore food-inspired works of art from the past to reflect on our attitudes about food today. Among the works discussed will be a gourd-shaped ewer made in Korea in the 12th century, The Breakfast Table (1883–84), an oil painting made in Paris by John Singer Sargent, and Pear Tree (1903), an oil painting made […]
Gallery Talk: Seeing in Art and Medicine
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThis event requires registration; see further details below. Join curator Jen Thum for an exploration of works in the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023. Thum will share insights about the museums’ medical humanities program for radiologists—on which the exhibition is based—and what can be gleaned through […]
2023 Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series: Cauleen Smith
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesInterdisciplinary artist Cauleen Smith kicks off the annual Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series. Smith explores African American identity through her work, particularly in films such as Sojourner, featured in SAAM’s current exhibition Musical Thinking: New Video Art and Sonic Strategies. She describes her work as a reflection on “the everyday possibilities of the imagination,” drawing on poetry, Afrofuturism, science […]