Harvard Art Museums
Screens for Teens: Ice Breakers and Olga
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThis series of contemporary and classic films is specially curated for teenagers in and around Cambridge. The selection, including both short and feature-length films, is meant to provide teens with an opportunity to watch work focused explicitly on their experiences. Covering a range of topics, emotions, and nuances, these free films—depending on length and scope—will […]
Gallery Talk: Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curatorial assistant Casey Monahan for an in-depth discussion about a dynamic display of ball invitations, advertisements, trade cards, and currency notes in the special exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view until January 15, 2023. Monahan will share insights about the acquisition of these small prints and the […]
Conversations around Funerary Portraits
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin conservator Haddon Dine and exhibition co-curator Georgina Rayner for a virtual conversation about the manufacturing processes of three-dimensional funerary portraits. Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward is a collaborative effort drawing from the expertise of staff across the museums and other members of our community. The exhibition invites visitors to reflect upon objects that […]
Gallery Talk: Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAFunerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward is a team-curated exhibition that brings together art history, Egyptology, and conservation science to illuminate artists’ processes and the life stories of the people depicted in funerary portraits. Join two exhibition curators as they describe what can be learned when close looking, scientific analysis, and community collaboration combine. Our […]
Art Talk Live: Eyeglasses and Other Luxuries in a Late Chosŏn Screen Painting
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin former fellow Yuhua Ding as she explores early 20th-century Korean paintings that include distinctly modern items and how those objects relate to knowledge and self-fashioning. Ch’aekkŏri is a unique Korean genre of still-life painting composed of assemblages of thread-bound books, antique vessels, writing implements, flowers, fruit, and other luxury items connoting refinement and auspiciousness. […]