Harvard Art Museums
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 […]
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an evening of art, fun, food, and more! This event is free and open to everyone. Gather with friends and mingle inside our Italian-inspired courtyard while taking in the smooth sounds from DJ C-Zone. Browse the museum shop and chat over a snack or drink for purchase from local vendors. And of […]
Gallery Talk: Disrupt the View
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn her installation Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums, on view through July 6, 2025, contemporary sculptor Arlene Shechet presents her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese porcelain objects from the Harvard Art Museums collections. Join curator Lynette Roth as she talks about Shechet’s artistic process, her collaborations with German […]
Gallery Talk: Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin exhibition co-curator Ilisa Barbash, curator of visual anthropology at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, for a close look at Joana Choumali’s photographic textiles in Joana Choumali: Languages of West African Marketplaces (January 25–May 11, 2025). Choumali created the textiles during her time as a 2020 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum […]
Repair and Restore: Embracing Change, Preserving Memory, and Building Community through the Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThough often understood as a purely technical or aesthetic pursuit that focuses on restoring historical objects to their former splendor, the conservation of cultural heritage is a profoundly human and complex endeavor. Objects and places gain significance from the people who make, value, and care for them. Change is inevitable and becomes part of the […]