Harvard Art Museums
Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAExplore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces showcases 12 life-size hand-quilted and embroidered portraits created from combinations of photographs taken in the marketplaces of Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) and Ghana, where secondhand clothing discarded by […]
Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MADiscover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. 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, etchings, and combination prints. The Harvard Art […]
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin Madison Brown, the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, 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 Services desk […]
Gallery Talk: Wind as Energy, Wind as Line
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curatorial fellow Cambra Sklarz for a discussion of a new installation that surveys the theme of wind. With a focus on works on paper spanning from the 17th to the 20th century, this talk explores how artists have taken up the challenge of making wind visible in their art. Sklarz will consider the intersections […]
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, […]