LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAImmerse yourself in a day in the life of a contemporary artist through a tour de force of monumental printmaking. LaToya M. Hobbs: It’s Time presents the series Carving Out Time, a life-size suite of woodcuts by Arkansas-born and Baltimore-based artist LaToya M. Hobbs. Unfolding over five scenes, the work depicts one day in Hobbs’s life with her […]
Future Minded: New Works in the Collection
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAFuture Minded highlights a selection of works acquired in recent years that exemplify the Harvard Art Museums’ collecting vision and strategies. Nearly all are on display for the first time. The museums are committed to acquiring art that expands the range of artists and cultures represented in the collections; that moves museum practice toward more nuanced […]
Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MADiscover a story of cross-cultural artistic connection over 300 years between the Dutch, the Flemish, and the Islamic world. Imagine Me and You unveils the vibrancy of multicultural exchange between the Low Countries (roughly modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), then part of the Habsburg empire, and the Islamic world, in particular the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal […]
Summer Spotlight Tour
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MACreated and led by Harvard students in the Ho Family Student Guide Program, Graduate Student Teacher Program, and Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP), Summer Spotlight Tours explore the Harvard Art Museums collections through a theme developed by each student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop at […]
Gallery Talk: From Italian Chopines to Ottoman nalıns: High-Heeled Shoes in Art
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin Clara Guzman to explore high-heeled shoes of the 16th and 17th centuries, from Turkish nalıns to Italian chopines. She will take an in-depth look at depictions of these historical footwear in European drawings and prints. This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Imagine Me and You: Dutch and Flemish Encounters with the Islamic World, 1450–1750 (May […]