Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking (March 7–July 27, 2025), led by an exhibition curator. A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts at the Harvard Art Museums, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, […]
Gallery Talk: Gray Area—More than Flesh and Bone: Symbology in Two Owls at Sunset, 1860
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThis talk will explore the unique aspects of Two Owls at Sunset, an American landscape painting that was made during a time of turmoil in the mid-19th century. Created by an unidentified artist, the work was painted at a time of deep partisan conflict in our national history, and amid the burgeoning development of environmental conservationalism. […]
Gallery Talk: Italy in the North—Maarten van Heemskerck, A Revolutionary Printmaker
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MACome 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 […]
Repair and Restore: Embracing Change, Preserving Memory, and Building Community through the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThough often understood as a purely technical or aesthetic pursuit that focuses on restoring historical objects to their former splendor, the conservation of cultural heritage is a profoundly human and complex endeavor. Objects and places gain significance from the people who make, value, and care for them. Change is inevitable and becomes part of the […]
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin exhibition co-curator Ilisa Barbash, curator of visual anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, for a close look at Joana Choumali’s photographic textiles in Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). Choumali created the textiles during her time as a 2020 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum […]