Harvard Art Museums
Student Board Annual Public Lecture: Pao Houa Her in Conversation with Makeda Best
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin the Harvard Art Museums Student Board for its annual public lecture, featuring Pao Houa Her in conversation with Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography. Pao Houa Her is a Hmong American artist whose practice engages primarily with legacies and potentials of landscape, portraiture, and documentary photographic traditions and aesthetics. Her works […]
Meet Me at the Museums: Medieval and Early Renaissance Crucifixion Images
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAWhile the image of Christ’s crucifixion is common in western artworks from the medieval and early Renaissance periods, interpreting these works can be complex. Join Clara Guzman in decoding several crucifixion scenes laden with symbolism. Guzman will also share how her research has been informed by her experience studying art history at Harvard and working […]
Film: Descendant
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin the Harvard Art Museums for a screening of the film Descendant. Documentary filmmaker Margaret Brown (The Order of Myths, The Great Invisible) returns to her hometown of Mobile, Alabama, to document the search for and historic discovery in 2019 of The Clotilda, the last known ship to arrive in the United States illegally carrying enslaved Africans, in […]
Gallery Talk: Hannah Höch’s Critical Photomontage
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn this talk, curator Lynette Roth examines a newly acquired photomontage by Berlin Dadaist Hannah Höch. In Ancient Runners Frieze (1930), Höch juxtaposes images of African, Egyptian, and European people and art objects culled from illustrated magazines and newspapers to call attention to gender stereotypes and the pervasiveness of racist and colonialist ideas in interwar Germany and […]
From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAVisit our galleries for FREE on Sundays. Check the visit page for all free admission opportunities at the Harvard Art Museums. Discover a more complete story of art from the Spanish Empire—and a broader definition of American art—through an unparalleled collection of Spanish colonial paintings. The Spanish empire and its patent mercantile companies were the dominant colonial force in […]