Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Explore the complex and multinational economy of secondhand T-shirts through the vibrant mixed-media photographs of award-winning Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces showcases 12 life-size hand-quilted and embroidered portraits created from combinations of photographs taken in the marketplaces of Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) and Ghana, where secondhand clothing discarded by […]

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Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Discover the experimental methods of Edvard Munch, who creatively explored materials and techniques across media. 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, etchings, and combination prints. The Harvard Art […]

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Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

European 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 […]

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Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join 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, […]

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Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces

Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA

Join Madison Brown, the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography, to learn more about the photographic tapestries of Ivorian artist Joana Choumali. This talk is offered in conjunction with the exhibition Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk […]

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