Harvard Art Museums
Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MACelebrate a 20th-century artist whose innovative abstract drawings and paintings continue to inspire. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static offers a new look at the practice of acclaimed artist and educator Edna Andrade (1917–2008). Presenting a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role […]
ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2025
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAYou’re invited to ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2025, a movement installation created by Heidi Latsky Dance. It is part of ON DISPLAY GLOBAL, a worldwide social justice initiative in which communities across the globe annually perform the work in commemoration of the United Nation’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) on December 3. Harvard’s Office for the Arts (OFA) Dance Program has been an ambassador of the […]
Gallery Talk: Heinz Mack’s Light-Relief (1960)
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curator Lynette Roth for a close look at Heinz Mack’s Light-Relief (1960), one of the artist’s earliest experiments with light articulation. The hand-embossed aluminum sculpture serves as a cornerstone of Mack’s oeuvre and his material experimentation as a co-founder of the influential ZERO group (1957–66). Mack recently gifted the work to the Busch-Reisinger Museum. This gallery talk is part of […]
Art Study Center Seminar: Versos and Marks—Exploring the Past of Artworks
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curatorial assistant Casey Monahan to explore how investigating the verso (reverse side) of an artwork can sometimes help construct the history and provenance of a work. Monahan will share how details such as labels, numbers, and other elements that are normally “unseen” are essential for curators as they research and catalogue works in the […]
Sketching in the Galleries: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black (Advanced Level)
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for as long as you’d like to sketch a live model in the galleries of the exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black (September 12, 2025–January 18, 2026). Taking inspiration from the themed sections of the exhibition, Brooke Stewart, lecturer at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, will lead […]