Harvard Art Museums
Gallery Talk: Funerary Portraits of Roman Egypt
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAFunerary Portraits of 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 […]
“Mummy Portraits” of Roman Egypt: Status, Ethnicity, and Magic
Geological Lecture Hall, 24 Oxford Street Cambridge MA 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn ancient Egypt, one of the final steps in the mummification process was to equip the body with a permanent face covering that helped protect the head and also ritually transform the deceased into a god. The earliest examples of these were stylized masks, later replaced by more realistically rendered painted portraits. Using evidence from […]
Disrupt the View: A Conversation with Arlene Shechet
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn her installation Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums, contemporary sculptor Arlene Shechet presents her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese porcelain objects from the Harvard Art Museums. Join curator Lynette Roth as she talks with Shechet about her artistic process, her past collaborations with German porcelain manufactory workers, and […]
Materials Lab Workshop: Modeling Material Culture in Paper
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThis 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 […]
Screens for Teens: Sublime and The One You Never Forget
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 […]