Harvard Art Museums
Gallery Talk: Italy in the North—Maarten van Heemskerck, A Revolutionary Printmaker
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MACome discover the work of the leading Haarlem painter who represented the Italian Renaissance in the Northern Netherlands in the mid-16th century. Maarten van Heemskerck’s artistic style was profoundly shaped by his extended stay in Italy (1532–36/37), where he drew copies of ancient sculpture and architecture and studied the works of Michelangelo and other significant […]
Gallery Talk: Gray Area—More than Flesh and Bone: Symbology in Two Owls at Sunset, 1860
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAThis talk will explore the unique aspects of Two Owls at Sunset, an American landscape painting that was made during a time of turmoil in the mid-19th century. Created by an unidentified artist, the work was painted at a time of deep partisan conflict in our national history, and amid the burgeoning development of environmental conservationalism. […]
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, […]
Gallery Talk: Wind as Energy, Wind as Line
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin curatorial fellow Cambra Sklarz for a discussion of a new installation that surveys the theme of wind. With a focus on works on paper spanning from the 17th to the 20th century, this talk explores how artists have taken up the challenge of making wind visible in their art. Sklarz will consider the intersections […]
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 […]