Join curator Sarah Laursen for a closer look at artworks in the exhibition Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade (September 15, 2023–January 14, 2024). The exhibition explores the entwined histories of the opium trade and the Chinese art market between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. Laursen will share how these two […]

Join us for a discussion with Bosco Sodi about his sculpture installation Origen, which marks the first outdoor public art display for the Harvard Art Museums. Mary Schneider Enriquez, former Houghton Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Harvard Art Museums, will talk with Bosco Sodi about his practice, the ideas central to Origen, and the […]

Deborah Varat, PhD, presents the lecture How Arthur Szyk's Cover Art for Collier's Magazine Helped Americans Visualize the Evil of Fascism. Varat is a Professor of Art History and Director of the Public Humanities Initiative at Southern New Hampshire University.    We invite you to join the conversation via the following options: In-person in the […]