Exhibition Tour: Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin chief curator Soyoung Lee for a tour of the exhibition Future Minded: New Works in the Collection (March 1–July 21, 2024). Future Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that exemplify the Harvard Art Museums’ collecting vision and strategies. Nearly all are on display for the first time. Led by: Soyoung Lee, Landon and Lavinia […]
27th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for the premiere screening of Community Art Center’s 27th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival, the longest-running youth film festival in the country. A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers and a short reception in the Calderwood Courtyard will follow the screening. Community Art Center has served residents of the Port […]
Gallery Talk: A Mughal Portrait in the Hands of a Dutch Master
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn the 1650s, Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn created several copies of Mughal portraits. Twenty-three of these survive today, including one at the Harvard Art Museums. In this talk, graduate student Khushi Choudhary will explore Rembrandt’s “creative copies,” by considering his portrait of the Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb in contrast to one made in a Mughal […]
Pursuing Knowledge of Artists’ Materials Production and Conservation Expertise as War Booty
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn this lecture, Morwenna Blewett, paintings conservator and associate member of Worcester College at the University of Oxford, will explore the role of representatives of British color manufacturers Winsor & Newton, Ltd., and George Rowney & Company, who spent nearly a month in Germany attempting to gain knowledge of German art materials in order to […]
Gallery Talk: Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin chief curator Soyoung Lee for a closer look at artworks in the exhibition Future Minded: New Works in the Collection (March 1–July 21, 2024). Lee will share insights into a group of recently acquired drawings by the artist Toyin Ojih Odutola. Future Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that exemplify the Harvard Art […]