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2018 Jul 25

Gallery Talk: John Singer Sargent’s Ancient Models

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Susanne Ebbinghaus, the George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, and Miriam Stewart, curator of the collection in the Division of European and American Art, will give this gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

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2018 Jul 24

Gallery Talk: Cross-Cultural Exchange in Late Medieval and Renaissance Europe

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Jessie Park, the Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, will give this gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus on aspects of the installation...

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2018 Jul 21

Gallery Talk: Robot Operas and Human Cellos

10:30am to 11:00am

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Caitlin Schmid, a Ph.D. candidate in historical musicology at Harvard, will give this gallery talk. The related exhibition, Nam June Paik: Screen Play, is on view from June 30 to August 5, 2018.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and...

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2018 Jul 14

Gallery Talk: Ink Flowers

10:30am to 11:00am

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Seung Yeon Sang, the Henderson Curatorial Fellow in the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, will give this gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they focus...

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2018 Jul 12

Gallery Talk: Nam June Paik—Art on Television

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Marina Isgro, the Nam June Paik Research Fellow in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, will give this gallery talk. The exhibition Nam June Paik: Screen Play is on view from June 30 to August 5, 2018.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens...

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2018 Jul 11

Film: Tacita Dean’s Kodak

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Tacita Dean’s film Kodak (2006; 16 mm; 44 min.) is set within a closing Kodak motion-picture film factory in Chalon-sur-Saône, France. Vivid and luminous, Kodak uses the medium of film to explore its own manufacture and contemplate its precarious status in the 21st century, given the rise of digital production. While Kodak is typically exhibited as an installation, we have the unique opportunity to experience Dean’s investigation of cultural obsolescence in the cinema at Menschel Hall.

Jessica Bardsley, a Ph.D....

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2018 Jul 11

Gallery Talk: Gardens of the Mind

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Wai Yee Chiong, the Cunningham Curatorial Fellow in Japanese Art, and Seung Yeon Sang, the Henderson Curatorial Fellow in the Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, will give this gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

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2018 Jul 07

Gallery Talk: A.K. Burns’s Survivor’s Remorse

10:30am to 11:00am

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Jessica Bardsley, the Agnes Mongan Curatorial Fellow in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, will give this gallery talk.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.

Gallery talks are offered by curators, conservators, fellows, and other museums staff; they...

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2018 Sep 23

Ride for Hunger

7:00am

Location: 

Noble and Greenough School, 10 Campus Drive, Dedham, MA

Are you a cyclist? Would you consider riding and raising money for Harvard's food donation partner, Food For Free? The next Ride for Hunger takes place on Sunday, September 23, 2018. Your commitment: a $75 registration fee, and a request that you raise a minimum of $300 dollars in donations (but we aim for $1,000 per person).

The ride: Pick the 10- 25- or 50-mile course. It's an incredibly fun, community day (with snacks and music at the finish line, too!). Friends from around the University are riding on behalf of Food for Free. Want to join? Contact...

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2018 Jul 21

Reception for Artist-In-Residence Stuart Gair

4:00pm to 7:00pm

Location: 

Ceramics Program | Gallery 224, 224 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134

The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard is pleased to present the final exhibition of one of its two 2017-18 Artists-In-Residence, Stuart Gair. Quiescence In Proximity will be on view from July 14– August 12, 2018 in Gallery 224 at the Ceramics Program at 224 Western Ave, Allston, MA 02134. All are invited to attend a reception with the artist on Saturday, July 21, 2018 from 5 pm – 7 pm. From 4-5pm, prior to the reception, Gair will give a slide lecture about his work and influences. The exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public; the lecture is free...

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2018 Jul 19

MicroChefs: An Evening for Curious Adults

7:30pm to 10:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Museum of Natural History, 26 Oxford Street

Wine, beer, sake, coffee, kombucha, yogurt, cheese, chocolate—some of our favorite beverages and foods owe their existence to microscopic “chefs” that are rarely acknowledged or appreciated. Get to know some of these beneficial microorganisms while you sample their masterful creations at this one-of-a-kind evening exclusively for guests over 21. Stay tuned for the full program!

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2018 Jun 28

Helping Children with Special Needs Together

12:00pm

Location: 

Lyman Hall 330

Focus Group Opportunity

Your opinion is worth $100!

Opportunity to Participate in a Focus Group Regarding the Prevention and Treatment of Influenza in High-Risk Persons.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), with the assistance of Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education, is seeking participants for a focus group discussion in Boston.

Participants will be asked to share their opinions and practices regarding some health-related issues. Your answers can help efforts to...

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2018 Jun 29

Art Study Center Seminar: The Story of the Print—Photographs from the Schneider/Erdman Printer’s Proof Collection

11:00am to 12:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

In this seminar, artist and printer Gary Schneider will join Jennifer Quick, the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Associate Research Curator in Photography, to discuss photographs he printed for such artists as Robert Gober, John Schabel, and Peter Hujar. Schneider worked with these artists as co-owner of the lab Schneider/Erdman, Inc., founded with his partner John Erdman in 1981 and located in Manhattan’s East Village. Schneider and Quick will explore the stories behind these photographs, looking closely at the many technical and conceptual decisions involved in the making of each...

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2018 Jun 27

Transgressions: David Wojnarowicz, Post-Punk Cinema, and Queer Video Activism

6:00pm to 8:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

David Wojnarowicz (1954–1992) was an American AIDS activist and artist who worked in photography, painting, writing, music, and film. A selection of his works are included in the exhibition Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, on view from May 19 to August 12, 2018. In conjunction with the exhibition, we are offering a chance to see the artist’s rarely screened...

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