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2019 Apr 30

The “Peculiar Problems” of Preservation: Life, Death, and the Afterlife in the Museum

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

In 1933, Rutherford John Gettens, conservation scientist at the Fogg Art Museum, wrote a letter to his colleague Dr. S. Paramasivan to ask about the “peculiar problems” he faced in the conservation of archaeological objects at the Madras Government Museum, in India. Who, he wondered, has the right to preserve museum collections, and why? Whose histories are preserved and whose are erased or omitted through the preservation process?

Though nearly 90 years have passed since this correspondence, some of these same issues continue to trouble museums around the world. In this...

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2019 Apr 27

Members Celebrate the Bauhaus

9:00am to 10:30am

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Members and their non-member guests are invited to a special morning celebration of our latest special exhibition, The Bauhaus and Harvard. You’ll enjoy coffee and light refreshments before attending a lecture by Laura Muir about the Bauhaus.
 
Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, and closed just 14 years later, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. Harvard University played host to the first Bauhaus exhibition in...

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2019 Apr 24

Gallery Talk: Kara Walker’s U.S.A. Idioms

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Chassidy Winestock, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard and a graduate student intern in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, will give this gallery talk.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Free...

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2019 Apr 23

Gallery Talk: Recline to Dine

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Frances Gallart Marques, the Frederick Randolph Grace Curatorial Fellow in Ancient Art, will give this gallery talk.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required....

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2019 Apr 22

Film by Design at HFA—Light Plays, Form Plays: Film Experiments after the Bauhaus

7:00pm to 9:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Film Archive, 24 Quincy Street

In conjunction with the Bauhaus centennial, this film series will reconstruct how members of the Bauhaus—one of the most progressive art, architecture, and design schools in the early 20th century—actively engaged with moving images between the years 1919 and 1933. It explores a vibrant field of experimentation with a medium that has long remained marginal in the accounts of the Bauhaus by tracing how artists, architects, designers, weavers, typographers, and photographers turned to film both as a new mode of artistic expression and as a tool of design: film sketches, abstract animations...

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2019 Apr 18

Gallery Talk: Sylvia Plimack Mangold—Taking Measure

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Marina Isgro, Nam June Paik Research Fellow in the Division of Modern and American Art, will give this gallery talk.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required....

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2019 Apr 18

Midday Organ Recital: Members of the Harvard Organ Society

12:15pm to 12:45pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA

Members of the Harvard Organ Society will perform.

Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.

Free admission

Presented by the Harvard Organ Society in collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums and Memorial Church.

2019 Apr 16

Materials Lab Workshop: Drawn to Art Reproduction

1:00pm to 4:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

For 19th-century artists, the evolution of reproductive technologies was never far from their minds, or hands, when making illustrations for the mass press. For much of the century, artists relied on professional wood engravers to translate their working drawings into the network of discrete black marks required for the printing of images on a typographic press. After the advent of photography in 1839, the industry experienced a flourishing of technological and material workarounds to this reliance on the reproductive engraver. The ability to produce printing plates from a photographic...

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2019 Apr 16

Gallery Talk: Chinese Jades—“The Fairest of Stones”

12:30pm to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Melissa Moy, consultative curator for Chinese ceramics, will give this gallery talk.

Our galleries are full of stories—this series of drop-in talks gives visitors a chance to hear the best ones! The talks highlight new works on view, take a fresh look at old favorites, investigate artists’ materials and techniques, and reveal the latest discoveries by curators, conservators, fellows, visiting artists, technologists, and other contributors.

Free with museums admission. Gallery talks are limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before each talk,...

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2019 May 29

Tour: The Bauhaus and Harvard

3:30pm to 4:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

Join us for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition The Bauhaus and Harvard, on view from February 8 to July 28, 2019.

The Bauhaus and Harvard exhibition—mounted in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany—presents nearly 200 works by more than 70 artists, drawn almost entirely from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s extensive Bauhaus collection. Founded in 1919 and closed just 14 years later, the Bauhaus was...

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2019 May 18

Free Admission Day for Art Museum Day and International Museum Day

10:00am to 5:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street

The Harvard Art Museums will offer free admission to all visitors today, in celebration of Art Museum Day and International Museum Day, organized by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and the International Council of Museums (ICOM).

Get up close with masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Georgia O’Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and more, and visit works by internationally recognized contemporary artists such as Kara Walker, Ai Weiwei, and Kerry James Marshall. Also, check out the ...

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2019 Apr 25

Secure and Sustainable Electronics Recycling Collection

8:00am to 3:00pm

Location: 

Courtyard Café; Harvard Medical School

Safely recycle your personal and University electronics for free

Bring your personal or Harvard University devices that are no longer in use and in need of safe, secure recycling to one of the events happening across campus. As part of Harvard's commitment to responsibly disposing of electronic waste, Harvard University Information Technology and the Office for Sustainability have teamed up for this community offering.

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2019 Apr 24

Secure and Sustainable Electronics Recycling Collection

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Kresge Building Atrium; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Safely recycle your personal and University electronics for free

Bring your personal or Harvard University devices that are no longer in use and in need of safe, secure recycling to one of the events happening across campus. As part of Harvard's commitment to responsibly disposing of electronic waste, Harvard University Information Technology and the Office for Sustainability have teamed up for this community offering.

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2019 Apr 25

Secure and Sustainable Electronics Recycling Collection

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Kresge Building Atrium; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Safely recycle your personal and University electronics for free

Bring your personal or Harvard University devices that are no longer in use and in need of safe, secure recycling to one of the events happening across campus. As part of Harvard's commitment to responsibly disposing of electronic waste, Harvard University Information Technology and the Office for Sustainability have teamed up for this community offering.

FIND MORE INFORMATION HERE

2019 Apr 24

Secure and Sustainable Electronics Recycling Collection

11:00am to 2:00pm

Location: 

Courtyard Café; Harvard Medical School

Safely recycle your personal and University electronics for free

Bring your personal or Harvard University devices that are no longer in use and in need of safe, secure recycling to one of the events happening across campus. As part of Harvard's commitment to responsibly disposing of electronic waste, Harvard University Information Technology and the Office for Sustainability have teamed up for this community offering.

FIND MORE INFORMATION HERE

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