Harvard Art Museums
Gallery Talk: Sketching Sensation
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curator of American art Horace Ballard for a gallery rumination around ideas of abstraction, atmosphere, and emotion in Leon Dabo’s Beach Scene, a drawing made exactly 94 years ago today! This talk is offered in conjunction with the special exhibition Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black, on view from September 12, 2025 to January […]
Gallery Talk: Keep Flowering! Gardens in Islamic and South Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MALeaves are falling outside but the flowers are blooming in our galleries! Curatorial fellow Janet O’Brien will guide you on a stroll through the lush gardens evoked in Islamic and South Asian art featured in a temporary installation. Along the way, you’ll view a magnificent 18th-century Persian carpet of a four-part garden (chaharbagh) design, contemporary […]
Exhibition Tour: Sketch, Shade, Smudge: Drawing from Gray to Black
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin 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 […]
Wael Shawky in Conversation and Screening of I Am Hymns of the New Temples
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAFree admission, but seating is limited and registration is encouraged. Register here. Join multidisciplinary artist Wael Shawky for a screening of his film I Am Hymns of the New Temples, a theatrical play that explores the persistence of Greek mythology in cultures around the Mediterranean. Following the film, Shawky will be in conversation with Harvard professor Giuliana […]
Art Study Center Seminar: Gray Area—Family Photographs in the Museums
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAWhy are family photos in the Harvard Art Museums collections? What can we learn from them, and how did they get here in the first place? This seminar will explore the ethics of collecting and exhibiting anonymous family photos to ask what private pictures can teach us about the broader histories of this genre of […]