Harvard Art Museums
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for a focused discussion about techniques and materials in our special exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking (March 7–July 27, 2025), led by a conservator from the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts, the exhibition offers rare insight into Munch’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across […]
Gallery Talk: Investigating Color at Ancient Dura-Europos
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAWhat can we learn from humble fragments of painted plaster walls? A lot, as it turns out! Paintings conservator Kate Smith and assistant research curator Caitlin Clerkin will discuss a display of wall painting fragments excavated at ancient Dura-Europos, Syria. The collaborative research into materials that underpins this display shows how some answers—and more questions—can […]
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond (May 24–August 17, 2025), led by one of the exhibition curators. The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond celebrates a significant recent bequest to the Harvard Art Museums from passionate collectors Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon. The […]
Opening Celebration: A Roundtable Discussion of The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAWe invite you to the opening event for the special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond (May 24–August 17, 2025), featuring a roundtable discussion between Boston-based artists Peter Lipsitt and Marjorie Minkin, whose works are on view in the exhibition, and New York–based art critic Karen Wilkin. Marina Kliger, curatorial fellow at the Harvard […]
Gallery Talk: Kenneth Noland and His Radical Geometry
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn 1964, Kenneth Noland created a series of geometric stained canvas paintings depicting rings and chevrons, which were then featured in the Venice Biennale presentation of contemporary American painting. Harvard Art Museums conservators have recently advanced understanding of how to treat these stained canvas paintings, which represent an innovative development in painting from this era. […]