The Blue Tour

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Adam Sella ’22 explores the color blue in three works of art: Utagawa Hiroshige’s print Yamato Province: Yoshino, a Thousand Cherry Trees at One Glance, Pablo Picasso’s Mother and Child from his Blue Period, and Josef Albers’s painting Homage to the Square: Against Deep Blue. Taking our Forbes Pigment […]

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The Arts of the Everyday—Found Materials in Brazilian Art & Printmaking at Home

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Bits of fabric, metal scraps, trash—these are just some of the experimental materials artists have used to make political statements. From sculpture to the graphic arts, a vibrant tradition of found materials, assemblage, and collage exists in Brazil, where artists have deployed these techniques to illuminate economic, racial, and environmental issues. This talk will explore […]

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The Art of Pleasure

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Felipe Muñoz ’22 explores how an Archaic Greek bowl attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, a Symbolist painting by Gustave Moreau, and a Bauhaus chess set by Josef Hartwig concern themselves with different kinds of pleasure. This free tour will take place online via Zoom. To join, click the following link: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/99419064824 (no pre-registration […]

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Art Study Center Seminar at Home, with Larry Cook

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Since we are unable to welcome you into the museums at this time, we are bringing our experts to you in a new online series, Art Study Center Seminars at Home. Cook was recently awarded a grant from the Harvard University Committee on the Arts (HUCA) for his work exploring themes of racial justice. In this session, […]

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Visions of the Future, with Cecilia Zhou

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Join us live on Zoom for a Student Guide Tour! Cecilia Zhou ’22 examines how three works of art, spanning 700 years, position themselves vis-à-vis the future. She will lead an interactive discussion of the sculpture Prince Shotoku at Age Two and the paintings Mass by Franz Wilhelm Seiwert and Untitled by Kerry James Marshall. This free tour will take place […]