Harvard Art Museums
Gallery Talk: The Artist’s Toolbox—Experiments with Color in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin Erica Lawton to learn about the unusual tools artists used to make some of the colorful abstract works featured in the exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond (May 24–August 17, 2025). The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond celebrates a significant recent bequest to the Harvard Art Museums from passionate collectors Arthur K. […]
Gallery Talk: Marks, Stamps, and Tags—Visible Traces of Provenance in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin exhibition curator Casey Monahan as she discusses the visible traces of ownership, or provenance, seen in works in the exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond (May 24–August 17, 2025). 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 […]
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking (March 7–July 27, 2025), led by an exhibition curator. A dynamic collaboration between curatorial and conservation experts at the Harvard Art Museums, Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking offers rare insight into the Norwegian artist’s innovative techniques and the recurring themes across his paintings, woodcuts, lithographs, […]
Gallery Talk: Meaning Makers
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn East Asian art, nearly every aspect of an artwork’s design is encoded with meaning. Join associate curator Yan Yang for a talk about a new installation in the East Asian art gallery that investigates images—often drawn from the natural world and from literature—that convey rich information through allusion and wordplay. The installation includes paintings, […]
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAEuropean prints became a key source of inspiration for artists at the courts of Akbar (r. 1556–1605) and Jahangir (r. 1605–27) in northern India. Mughal painters adopted this foreign vocabulary but made it their own by incorporating local style and techniques and by adding iconographic elements that would be meaningful to a pluralistic audience. The […]