Art Museums
Communist Symbols and a Black Abyss at the MFA
“Those are Communist symbols!” the husband says of the butterflies floating in the scenery. “Those are lemons!” claims his wife.
Everywhen at Harvard Art Museums
Viewers fill the galleries at Harvard Art Museums’ opening celebration of “Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia” on Thursday evening.
Pneuma(tic) Bodies at the Carpenter Center
“Pneuma(tic) Bodies,” an installation which focused upon the relationality between the human body, objects, and architecture, opened at the Carpenter Center on Wednesday evening.
Indigenous Australian Art Exhibit Opens in Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums’ special exhibition on Indigenous Art from Australia opens on Friday, with an opening celebration on Thursday night.
Koerner Ventures Beyond Bosch at Harvard Art Museums
Harvard art historian Joseph Leo Koerner lectured on the art of Hieronymus Bosch and its reception in print at the Harvard Art Museums on Thursday.
Beyond Bosch Exhibit Goers
After History of Art and Architecture professor Joseph Leo Koerner’s lecture at the Harvard Art Museums last Thursday evening, viewers were allowed after-hours access to "Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print,” featuring work by artists from the 16th century to the present who were inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s style and subject matter.
Beyond Bosch in the Galleries
After Prof. Koerner’s lecture at the Harvard Art Museums on Thursday evening, the audience was allowed after-hours access to "Beyond Bosch: The Afterlife of a Renaissance Master in Print,” featuring work by artists from the 16th century to the present who were inspired by Bosch’s style.
Beyond Bosch? Lecture
Art History professor Joseph L. Koerner explored themes in Hieronymus Bosch’s artwork during a lecture at the Harvard Art Museums on Thursday evening.
The Silkscreening Process
An attendee works on her silkscreening print at a Harvard Art Museums Materials Lab workshop. Visitors pressed ink through screens to create stenciled designs.
Study Center Open Hours
Harvard Art Museums curatorial fellow Robert E. Wiesenberger discusses museum archives during the Art Study Center Open Hours on Dec. 15. The open hours featured art from collections not currently on public view, including selected works from Corita Kent.
Silkscreening at Harvard Art Museums
Research curator Francesca Brewer demonstrates the silkscreening process during a Harvard Art Museums Materials Lab workshop on Dec. 15. Visitors pressed ink through screens to create stenciled designs.
NYU Professor Discusses Black Lives Matter, Mizzou
Nicholas Mirzoeff spoke about how an increase in internet access and higher populations in urban areas have changed the outlook and methods of modern social movements.
Open Hours
Jordan E. Troeller, graduate student in the History of Art and Architecture, studies a work of art during the Arts Study Center’s open hours. Starting this past summer, the Arts Study Center in the Harvard Art Museum has been hosting open hours every Monday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Gallery Talk
Busch-Reisinger Museum curator Lynette Roth presents an intervention by contemporary artist Shahryar Nashat at the Harvard Art Museums Thursday. She said, “Every gallery in the museum is really an argument.”
Corita Kent Pop Exhibit
A museum visitor examines a piece in the exhibit “Corita Kent and the Language of Pop,” on display at the Harvard Art Museums through May 2016.