Our galleries are full of stories—this series of talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors. Gallery talks are […]

Join Ben Sibson, Ph.D. candidate in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, for an in-depth discussion about the depiction of the human body in selected works on view in the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment. He will share insights about artists’ representations of the human form, focusing on Jacques-Fabien […]

Note that this workshop takes place at an off-site location, Active Learning Labs. Location details are below. This workshop accompanies the exhibition Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward, which invites viewers to ask more about the complicated histories of these portraits and the people they depict. It also explores what can be learned about the […]

This workshop is inspired by the exhibition Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, which explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the so-called age of reason. It invites visitors to embrace the Enlightenment’s same spirit of inquiry—to investigate, to persuade, and to imagine. The […]

Join art historian Paris A. Spies-Gans, of the Harvard Society of Fellows, for an in-depth discussion about works of art made by women in Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, on view until January 15, 2023. Spies-Gans will examine objects by a range of artists, with particular attention given to Marguerite […]