Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MADiscover a story of cross-cultural artistic connection over 300 years between the Dutch, the Flemish, and the Islamic world. Imagine Me and You unveils the vibrancy of multicultural exchange between the Low Countries (roughly modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), then part of the Habsburg empire, and the Islamic world, in particular the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal […]
Summer Spotlight Tour
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MACreated and led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, Graduate Student Teacher Program, and Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP), Summer Spotlight Tours explore the Harvard Art Museums collections through a theme developed by each student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop at […]
Gallery Talk: A Sea of Tulips
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curatorial research associate Susan Anderson, for a deep dive into the wondrous world of tulips, the tulip trade, and Tulipomania. Why are there so many Dutch tulip drawings? What prompted the Dutch tulip craze in the 1630s? What are “broken tulips”? And what role did the tulip—a symbol of the Netherlands—play in Habsburg-Ottoman diplomacy? […]
Gallery Talk: Feminist Photography East of the Iron Curtain
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curator Lynette Roth for a close look at recent additions to the Busch-Reisinger Museum collection. In the 1970s and 1980s, the body-based photographic practices of East German artist Gabriele Stötzer and Polish artist Natalia LL challenged officially sanctioned art making and gender disparities in socialist states during the Cold War. This gallery talk is […]
Exhibition Tour: Through the Eyes of an Artist: Pieter Coecke’s 1533 Journey to Istanbul
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn 1533, Netherlandish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst (1502–1550) traveled to Istanbul, presumably accompanying Habsburg ambassador Cornelis de Schepper on his first diplomatic mission. Twenty years later, Coecke’s widow, Mayken Verhulst, printed a monumental woodcut frieze by Coecke chronicling his journey to the Ottoman city. We now invite you to follow in Coecke’s footsteps and […]