Harvard Art Museums
Art Study Center Seminar: Gray Area—Family Photographs in the Museums
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAWhy are family photos in the Harvard Art Museums collections? What can we learn from them, and how did they get here in the first place? This seminar will explore the ethics of collecting and exhibiting anonymous family photos to ask what private pictures can teach us about the broader histories of this genre of […]
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, led by an exhibition curator. The exhibition will be on view from September 12, 2025 through January 18, 2026. Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black celebrates the act of drawing using familiar tools—charcoal, chalk, crayon, and […]
Sketching in the Galleries: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black (Beginner 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 […]
Encounters with Conservation
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAHave you ever wondered what happens in our conservation labs? Join members of our Straus Center staff for an informal conversation about their work treating objects in our collections. Taking place just outside the Straus Center in the Lightbox Gallery, this presentation will give you the chance to get up close and hands-on with a […]
Busch-Reisinger Museum Lecture with Olivier Lugon—Writing and Reading in the Age of Photography: László Moholy-Nagy, Typophoto, and Film
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAFree admission, but seating is limited and registration is encouraged. Register here. Renowned photo historian Olivier Lugon will speak about his recent research on artist László Moholy-Nagy. In 1925, László Moholy-Nagy introduced a term that would become central to modern graphic design and the practice of layout: “typophoto.” The word referred to a new combination of […]