Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums, comprised of the the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums, are located on Quincy Street, right across from Harvard Yard.
Mothers of Opioid Victims Urge Harvard to Remove Sackler Name, Bacow Refuses
The mothers’ efforts to pressure the University come at a time when other prestigious institutions that have received donations from the Sacklers are grappling with similar entreaties from activists.
Harvard Art Museums Celebrate Bauhaus Centennial
The exhibit’s 200 works by 74 artists encapsulate the diversity of both the Bauhaus and of Harvard’s own collection, which is typically housed at the Busch-Reisinger Museum.
Activists Call on Harvard to Strip Art Museum of Sackler Name
Local activists and at least one public official are calling on Harvard to remove the Sackler family’s name from their buildings after a memorandum filed in federal court Tuesday alleged the family knowingly understated the risks of its company’s addictive opioid product.
Rhytons and Bowls
Rhytons and bowls are on display at the Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibit, “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings.”
Cadmium Yellow, Light
Cadmium yellow and other sunny shades populate a portion of the Forbes pigment collection.
Portrait of an Artist: Soyoung Lee
At the Harvard Art Museums, Lee will oversee three curatorial divisions: Asian and Mediterranean Art, European and American Art, and Modern and Contemporary Art.
Cameron Rowland: Inside an Artist’s Brain
On Nov. 14, the Harvard Art Museums welcomed contemporary artist Cameron Rowland to discuss some of the thoughts and history behind his work. Rowland is an American artist from Philadelphia currently living and working in Queens, New York. Rowland is known for his conceptual art, and given his use of found and readymade objects, some have come to consider him the 21st century version of the infamous artist Marcel Duchamp.
‘Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time’ Holds True to Its Name
“Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time,” which runs through Jan. 13 at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, features a diverse collection of textile-inspired artworks of different mediums, created by contemporary artists from around the world. The exhibit strives to “explore the ways in which the art of the past continues to inspire artists now” and executes this goal perfectly. Each piece is distinctive from the others, and ties together both old and new elements of textile art in a novel way.
‘Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time’ Holds True to Its Name
Even for non-contemporary art enthusiasts, this exhibit is a must-see. Though the exhibit itself is not large, it leaves a powerful impression on the viewer that will last well beyond the walls of the museum. “Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time” truly lives up to its name, beautifully demonstrating how art can break barriers and connect people across time and across cultures.
Speakers Emphasize Awareness At Humanitarian Action Summit
Students, faculty, and researchers from Harvard and elsewhere gathered Thursday at the Harvard Art Museums for the 2018 Humanitarian Action Summit's talks.
Winnie The Pooh MFA
Ernest Howard Shepard, ‘The bees are getting suspicious’, Winnie‑the‑Pooh chapter 1, p. 15, 1926. Pencil on paper.
An Invitation to Play: The MFA Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition
It’s loud, exciting, and stimulating, and this emphasis on interplay — and play itself — is no accident. Wall text abounds with descriptions of collaboration between the Milne-Shepard families, as well as the subtlety of “Winnie-the-Pooh’s” educational agenda.
Time is Now
Harvard's Sert Gallery will display the exhibit "Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America" from Sept. 13 until Dec. 30.
Propaganda Postcards Tell a Story of Societal Fragmentation and Unity
Located in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibit “The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars” transports viewers back to this time and invites them to perceive the energy, diversity, and gravity of this brusque, now-primitive form of media.
Propaganda Postcards
5th Camp Dux, Opera Balilla, 1935. Lithograph (divided back). Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Promised gift of Leonard A. Lauder.
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger and Piglet Too
Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic, an exhibition at the MFA now through January, includes stuffed animals of some of the classic characters from the Hundred Acre Wood including Pooh Bear, Tigger and Piglet.
False Narratives
“The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of the World Wars” is an exhibit at the MFA which looks at the way graphic art and design has been used as propaganda.
Capitalism Museum
Visitors can crank The Minimum Wage Machine by Blake Fall-Conroy to get one penny every 4 seconds, or $9/hour (minimum wage).
Museum of Capitalism Brings Intelligent, Approachable Exhibit to Tufts
Forget what you know about capitalism — it’s defined as something much broader than our country’s free-market principles at “Museum of Capitalism.”
Teresita Fernández
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses her work in connection to her art instillation Autumn (... Nothing Personal) during a lecture at the Harvard Art Museum on Thursday.