Join assistant paper conservator Abby Schleicher and assistant curator Yan Yang for a talk about a Chinese ink rubbing included in a recent installation in the East Asian art gallery. The object represents a unique type of rubbing—zhuta 朱拓, or red rubbing. Schleicher and Yang will introduce the object’s use and meaning and explain its materials […]

Join 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 […]

Join curatorial fellow Janet O’Brien for an exploration of the diverse range of animal representations in a recent installation in our Islamic and South Asian art galleries, including their symbolic meanings and cultural significance. On view in the Islamic art gallery (2550) are a 16th-century Persian carpet, a selection of ceramic and metal sculptural objects […]

You’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 […]

Join 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 […]