Harvard Art Museums
Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer. Led by: Peter Murphy, Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join […]
Film Screening and Panel Discussion: Ancient Beacons Long for Notice
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for a screening of artist Dario Robleto’s film Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, followed by a conversation between Robleto and collaborator Jennifer Roberts. In 1977, NASA launched two interstellar probes containing “Golden Records” that represented Earth’s life and cultures, intentionally edited to put humanity’s “best face forward.” Robleto’s film revisits the daunting task of representing all […]
Annual Henri Zerner Lecture: Dutch Art and Rewilding Art History
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThis program is sponsored by Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Harvard Art Museums and through the generosity of alumni and friends in establishing the Henri Zerner Lecture Fund. How does one write a history of Dutch art from the perspective of Albany, New York, a region known as Beverwijck and […]
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin 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 […]
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, […]