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The Harvard Art Museums, among the world’s leading art institutions, comprise three museums (Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, the Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, the Harvard Art Museums Archives, and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis). The Harvard Art Museums are distinguished by the range and depth of their collections, their groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of their staff. The collections include approximately 250,000 objects in all media, ranging in date from antiquity to the present and originating in Europe, North America, North Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Integral to Harvard University and the wider community, the art museums and research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and other visitors. For more than a century they have been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and are renowned for their seminal role in developing the discipline of art history in this country.

 

In June 2008 the building at 32 Quincy Street, formerly the home of the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger museums, closed for a major renovation. During this renovation, the Sackler Museum at 485 Broadway remains open and has been reinstalled with some of the finest works representing the collections of all three museums. When complete, the renovated historic building on Quincy Street will unite the three museums in a single state-of-the-art facility designed by architect Renzo Piano.

 

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    Harvard Art Museums

    485 Broadway
    Cambridge, MA 02138

    Phone: 617-495-9400   |   Official Website

  • Current Events

    09/13/08- Ongoing

    Re-View Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Re-View Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum September 13, 2008 - Ongoing This survey features a selection of over 600 objects drawn from the collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums that reflects the diversity and richness of the Harvard Art Museums' holdings. Well-known objects are included alongside rarely displayed works in thematic gallery spaces: European and American art since 1900 is on the first floor, Islamic and Asian art is on the second floor, and the fourth floor features Western art from antiquity to the turn of the...

  • Upcoming Events

    02/04/12	Selections for Review: A New Installation of Western Art at the Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Selections for Review: A New Installation of Western Art at the Harvard Art Museums Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 4, 2012 Stephan Wolohojian, Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator, Head, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums Looking at painting, sculpture, and other objects, the speaker will consider juxtapositions and dialogues among the newly installed works in the exhibition Re-View. The discussion will feature new and familiar artworks, such as the 5th-century BC Attic Red-Figure Neck-Amphora, attributed to the Berlin Painter, and Claude Monet’s...
    02/15/12	In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Doris Salcedo Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Doris Salcedo Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 15, 2012 Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art Doris Salcedo’s chair, Untitled (2004–5), is a sculpture that at once plays with Duchamp’s concept of the “readymade” and stands as enduring witness to the violence that ravages many societies in the world today. This lecture will examine the evolution of Salcedo’s oeuvre since the 1980s, placing this piece...
    02/25/12	Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 25, 2012 Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums This gallery talk will highlight a selection of recent acquisitions that illustrates the breadth of approaches to contemporary photographic practice. In addition to work by major...
    02/28/12	ArtisTalk: Vera Lutter Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum ArtisTalk: Vera Lutter Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 28, 2012 In the 1990s, Vera Lutter began to transform rooms into large pinhole cameras in order to create wall-size negative images of architectural subjects. Her ambitious and innovative engagement with this process resonates with Lyonel Feininger’s exploration of the stark contrasts and otherworldly effects of the negative print, which he began to explore at the Bauhaus in the late 1920s. ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of...
    03/10/12	The Bronze Age: Bronze as a Material from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Bronze Age: Bronze as a Material from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 10, 2012 Lisa Anderson, Frederick Randolph Grace Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art An alloy of copper and tin, stronger and more malleable than either element alone, bronze is an essential, intrinsically valuable material. For over 5,000 years it has been used to create artistic and practical objects, from sculpture to weapons, jewelry, coins, and vessels. This talk will focus on aspects of bronze manufacture, its survival, and its use in...
    03/14/12	Revealing Histories: Multiple Perspectives on Islamic Metalwork Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Revealing Histories: Multiple Perspectives on Islamic Metalwork Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 14, 2012 Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums; Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums Among the decorative arts of Islam, metalwork offers a uniquely promising focus for art-historical and scientific investigation. Numerous copper-alloy objects survive, from utilitarian vessels...
    03/20/12	ArtisTalk: Laurie Simmons Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum ArtisTalk: Laurie Simmons Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 20, 2012 Laurie Simmons has been staging scenes for the camera that feature dolls, dollhouses, and other toy objects since the 1970s. Simmons’ interest in creating and photographing small self-contained worlds that often touch on themes of nostalgia and memory echoes Feininger’s practice of recording miniature wooden villages, model yachts, and mannequins in shop windows. ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most...
    03/22/12	Elusive Originals: Greek Bronze Statues and Roman Marble Copies Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Elusive Originals: Greek Bronze Statues and Roman Marble Copies Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 22, 2012 Carol Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History, George Mason University When we speak of Greek bronze originals and Roman marble copies, we may not be taking into consideration the importance of ancient technologies and the ancient marketplace. What is a true Greek bronze "original," and was there a market for copies in Greece as well as in Rome? This lecture will explore the relationships between technology and market demand in the classical world, and address...
    03/23/12	Ancient Bronzes Workshop Ancient Bronzes Workshop Presented by Harvard Art Museums March 23, 2012 Lisa Anderson, Frederick Randolph Grace Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museums; Francesca Bewer, Research Curator, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums; Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museums; Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for...
    03/28/12	Treating History in Adolphus Busch Hall Adolphus Busch Hall Treating History in Adolphus Busch Hall Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Adolphus Busch Hall March 28, 2012 Louise Orsini, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts; Lynette Roth, Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums In light of an ongoing revitalization of Adolphus Busch Hall (home to the Busch-Reisinger Museum from 1921 to 1991), Orsini and Roth will examine the unique history of the building and the collections still housed within it. Special emphasis...
    04/04/12	Winslow Homer’s Pitching Quoits Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Winslow Homer’s Pitching Quoits Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 4, 2012 Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums; Judy Murray, Senior Museum Educator, Harvard Art Museums This talk will place Winslow Homer’s 1865 painting Pitching Quoits in the context of the American Civil War and will explore its relevance to viewers today. Renn will review Homer's career as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly during the Civil War, and will look at how that...
    04/07/12	Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 7, 2012 Joanna Wendel, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University This gallery talk will address a selection of drawings and watercolors by Lyonel Feininger from the recent William S. Lieberman bequest to the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Although Feininger is best known as a painter of prismatic seascapes and medieval architecture, he also produced a vast body of drawings that showcase his ceaseless experimentation with technique, subject matter, and...
    04/10/12	ArtisTalk: Todd Hido Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum ArtisTalk: Todd Hido Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 10, 2012 With a tripod, Todd Hido makes night photographs of suburban neighborhoods, using long exposures to capture the effects of fog, and light from streetlamps and windows. Hido’s project relates closely to Feininger’s atmospheric night photographs of the Bauhaus building and the surrounding neighborhood. ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most thought-provoking artists. Artistic practice is an essential form of...
    04/18/12	Feininger in the Darkroom Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Feininger in the Darkroom Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 18, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Penley Knipe, Philip and Lynn Straus Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums In 1928 the painter and Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger took up the camera and began to explore a range of avant-garde photographic techniques with stunning results. This gallery talk, given in...
    04/26/12	New Views on Roman Gold Coins Found in Britain Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum New Views on Roman Gold Coins Found in Britain Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 26, 2012 Roger Bland, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, The British Museum This talk draws from a recent project to catalogue all finds of Roman and early Byzantine gold coins from Britain. The study reveals that Britain was not the poor province on the edge of the Roman Empire it was once thought to be. The speaker will highlight some of the most spectacular finds and new discoveries. Free admission. Reception to follow lecture. Limited...
    05/02/12	In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Lyonel Feininger: Photographs Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Lyonel Feininger: Photographs Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 2, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art American-born modernist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is most closely identified with his luminous prismatic paintings of medieval German towns and churches, but he was also a gifted and surprisingly innovative photographer. This lecture will explore Harvard’s extensive holdings of the artist’s little-known photographic work. This popular...
    05/17/12	Day Trip: American Art, Glass, and Gardens on Cape Cod Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Day Trip: American Art, Glass, and Gardens on Cape Cod Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 17, 2012 Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums Join us for a daylong journey to Cape Cod as we visit three sites dedicated to American art, design, and culture. We begin our program in the charming town of Cotuit with a visit to the Cahoon Museum of American Art, notable for its impressive collection of folk paintings created by husband and wife artists Ralph and Martha Cahoon. Our next stop will be the...

• Current &
  Upcoming Events

  • Current Events

    09/13/08- Ongoing

    Re-View Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Re-View Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum September 13, 2008 - Ongoing This survey features a selection of over 600 objects drawn from the collections of the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums that reflects the diversity and richness of the Harvard Art Museums' holdings. Well-known objects are included alongside rarely displayed works in thematic gallery spaces: European and American art since 1900 is on the first floor, Islamic and Asian art is on the second floor, and the fourth floor features Western art from antiquity to the turn of the...

  • Upcoming Events

    02/04/12	Selections for Review: A New Installation of Western Art at the Harvard Art Museums Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Selections for Review: A New Installation of Western Art at the Harvard Art Museums Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 4, 2012 Stephan Wolohojian, Landon and Lavinia Clay Curator, Head, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums Looking at painting, sculpture, and other objects, the speaker will consider juxtapositions and dialogues among the newly installed works in the exhibition Re-View. The discussion will feature new and familiar artworks, such as the 5th-century BC Attic Red-Figure Neck-Amphora, attributed to the Berlin Painter, and Claude Monet’s...
    02/15/12	In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Doris Salcedo Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Doris Salcedo Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 15, 2012 Mary Schneider Enriquez, Houghton Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art Doris Salcedo’s chair, Untitled (2004–5), is a sculpture that at once plays with Duchamp’s concept of the “readymade” and stands as enduring witness to the violence that ravages many societies in the world today. This lecture will examine the evolution of Salcedo’s oeuvre since the 1980s, placing this piece...
    02/25/12	Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Photography Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 25, 2012 Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums This gallery talk will highlight a selection of recent acquisitions that illustrates the breadth of approaches to contemporary photographic practice. In addition to work by major...
    02/28/12	ArtisTalk: Vera Lutter Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum ArtisTalk: Vera Lutter Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 28, 2012 In the 1990s, Vera Lutter began to transform rooms into large pinhole cameras in order to create wall-size negative images of architectural subjects. Her ambitious and innovative engagement with this process resonates with Lyonel Feininger’s exploration of the stark contrasts and otherworldly effects of the negative print, which he began to explore at the Bauhaus in the late 1920s. ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of...
    03/10/12	The Bronze Age: Bronze as a Material from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Bronze Age: Bronze as a Material from Antiquity to the Early 20th Century Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 10, 2012 Lisa Anderson, Frederick Randolph Grace Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art An alloy of copper and tin, stronger and more malleable than either element alone, bronze is an essential, intrinsically valuable material. For over 5,000 years it has been used to create artistic and practical objects, from sculpture to weapons, jewelry, coins, and vessels. This talk will focus on aspects of bronze manufacture, its survival, and its use in...
    03/14/12	Revealing Histories: Multiple Perspectives on Islamic Metalwork Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Revealing Histories: Multiple Perspectives on Islamic Metalwork Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 14, 2012 Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums; Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums Among the decorative arts of Islam, metalwork offers a uniquely promising focus for art-historical and scientific investigation. Numerous copper-alloy objects survive, from utilitarian vessels...
    03/20/12	ArtisTalk: Laurie Simmons Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum ArtisTalk: Laurie Simmons Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 20, 2012 Laurie Simmons has been staging scenes for the camera that feature dolls, dollhouses, and other toy objects since the 1970s. Simmons’ interest in creating and photographing small self-contained worlds that often touch on themes of nostalgia and memory echoes Feininger’s practice of recording miniature wooden villages, model yachts, and mannequins in shop windows. ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most...
    03/22/12	Elusive Originals: Greek Bronze Statues and Roman Marble Copies Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Elusive Originals: Greek Bronze Statues and Roman Marble Copies Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 22, 2012 Carol Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History, George Mason University When we speak of Greek bronze originals and Roman marble copies, we may not be taking into consideration the importance of ancient technologies and the ancient marketplace. What is a true Greek bronze "original," and was there a market for copies in Greece as well as in Rome? This lecture will explore the relationships between technology and market demand in the classical world, and address...
    03/23/12	Ancient Bronzes Workshop Ancient Bronzes Workshop Presented by Harvard Art Museums March 23, 2012 Lisa Anderson, Frederick Randolph Grace Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museums; Francesca Bewer, Research Curator, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums; Ruth Bielfeldt, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museums; Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for...
    03/28/12	Treating History in Adolphus Busch Hall Adolphus Busch Hall Treating History in Adolphus Busch Hall Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Adolphus Busch Hall March 28, 2012 Louise Orsini, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts; Lynette Roth, Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums In light of an ongoing revitalization of Adolphus Busch Hall (home to the Busch-Reisinger Museum from 1921 to 1991), Orsini and Roth will examine the unique history of the building and the collections still housed within it. Special emphasis...
    04/04/12	Winslow Homer’s Pitching Quoits Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Winslow Homer’s Pitching Quoits Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 4, 2012 Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums; Judy Murray, Senior Museum Educator, Harvard Art Museums This talk will place Winslow Homer’s 1865 painting Pitching Quoits in the context of the American Civil War and will explore its relevance to viewers today. Renn will review Homer's career as an illustrator for Harper’s Weekly during the Civil War, and will look at how that...
    04/07/12	Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Lyonel Feininger: Drawings and Watercolors Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 7, 2012 Joanna Wendel, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University This gallery talk will address a selection of drawings and watercolors by Lyonel Feininger from the recent William S. Lieberman bequest to the Busch-Reisinger Museum. Although Feininger is best known as a painter of prismatic seascapes and medieval architecture, he also produced a vast body of drawings that showcase his ceaseless experimentation with technique, subject matter, and...
    04/10/12	ArtisTalk: Todd Hido Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum ArtisTalk: Todd Hido Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 10, 2012 With a tripod, Todd Hido makes night photographs of suburban neighborhoods, using long exposures to capture the effects of fog, and light from streetlamps and windows. Hido’s project relates closely to Feininger’s atmospheric night photographs of the Bauhaus building and the surrounding neighborhood. ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most thought-provoking artists. Artistic practice is an essential form of...
    04/18/12	Feininger in the Darkroom Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Feininger in the Darkroom Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 18, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums; Penley Knipe, Philip and Lynn Straus Conservator of Works of Art on Paper, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums In 1928 the painter and Bauhaus master Lyonel Feininger took up the camera and began to explore a range of avant-garde photographic techniques with stunning results. This gallery talk, given in...
    04/26/12	New Views on Roman Gold Coins Found in Britain Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum New Views on Roman Gold Coins Found in Britain Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 26, 2012 Roger Bland, Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure, The British Museum This talk draws from a recent project to catalogue all finds of Roman and early Byzantine gold coins from Britain. The study reveals that Britain was not the poor province on the edge of the Roman Empire it was once thought to be. The speaker will highlight some of the most spectacular finds and new discoveries. Free admission. Reception to follow lecture. Limited...
    05/02/12	In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Lyonel Feininger: Photographs Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Lyonel Feininger: Photographs Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 2, 2012 Laura Muir, Assistant Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art American-born modernist Lyonel Feininger (1871–1956) is most closely identified with his luminous prismatic paintings of medieval German towns and churches, but he was also a gifted and surprisingly innovative photographer. This lecture will explore Harvard’s extensive holdings of the artist’s little-known photographic work. This popular...
    05/17/12	Day Trip: American Art, Glass, and Gardens on Cape Cod Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Day Trip: American Art, Glass, and Gardens on Cape Cod Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 17, 2012 Melissa Renn, Senior Curatorial Research Associate, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums Join us for a daylong journey to Cape Cod as we visit three sites dedicated to American art, design, and culture. We begin our program in the charming town of Cotuit with a visit to the Cahoon Museum of American Art, notable for its impressive collection of folk paintings created by husband and wife artists Ralph and Martha Cahoon. Our next stop will be the...

• Past
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  • Past Events

    02/01/12	Learning from Bode Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    01/27/12	Member Event: Harvard Treasures Tour at Schlesinger Library, Culinary Collection
    12/20/11	Teaching in the Art Museum: An Evening with the Authors Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/14/11	In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Taking Dürer Out of the Box Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/10/11	Painting Out of the Wall Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/10/11	Exhibition Tour with Daniel Zolli Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/09/11	Exhibition Tour with Marisa Mandabach Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/07/11	Visualizing Medical Concepts Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/02/11	Exhibition Tour with Daniel Zolli and Aaron Wile Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/02/11	Exhibition Tour with Chris Barrett Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/02/11- 12/03/11	Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (Two-day symposium) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/02/11	Exhibition Tour with Marisa Mandabach Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/29/11	ArtisTalk: Mark Dion Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/26/11	Exhibition Tour with Daniel Zolli Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/19/11	Measuring the World: Creating and Using Scientific Instruments Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/18/11	Exhibition Tour with Chris Barrett Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/18/11	"The Wolf Knife": Film Screening and Discussion Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/17/11	Opening: "Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me" Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    11/16/11	Artistic Visions, Scientific Truths Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/12/11	Exhibition Tour with Susan Dackerman Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/09/11	Charting the Heavens and Telling Time Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/05/11	Unsealed: Interpreting Marks and Inscriptions on East Asian Works of Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/04/11	Member Event: Harvard Treasures Tour of Bow & Arrow Press
    11/03/11	The Evolution of Metal-on-Metal Inlay in 12th–13th-century Islamic Metalwork Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/01/11	ArtisTalk: Tim Rollins Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/27/11- 10/29/11	Vasari/500: Envisioning New Directions in Vasari Studies (Three-day symposium) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/22/11	Family Day: Mapping the Natural World Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/18/11	ArtisTalk: Gary Schneider Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/15/11	Josiah McElheny’s "Island Universe" Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/14/11	Exhibition Tour with Susan Dackerman Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/06/11	From Georgian to Modern: Architecture and Landscape in Lincoln (Day Trip) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/24/11	Family Day: Printmaking and the Art of Observation Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/21/11	In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently: Standing Buddha Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/17/11	Artful Diplomacy: Korean Envoys and the Exchange of Painting Styles in East Asia Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/16/11	Exhibition Tour with Chris Barrett Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/10/11	Exhibition Tour with Susan Dackerman Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/10/11	Blue Heron Concert Adolphus Busch Hall
    09/06/11	Opening: Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    07/22/11	Art along the North Shore (day trip) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    07/09/11	Harvard’s Germanic Museum: A History Adolphus Busch Hall
    06/25/11	Caves in the Museum: Recontextualizing Chinese Buddhist Sculpture Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    06/05/11	Members Spring Garden Party Adolphus Busch Hall
    06/04/11	Mobilizing Bodies in 18th-Century French Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    05/14/11	Adding to the Mix: New Acquisitions and Perspectives on Modern and Contemporary Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    05/11/11	Max Beckmann - In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    05/05/11	Harvard Treasures Tour of Harvard Yard
    04/29/11- 04/30/11	Sculpture and Coins: Margarete Bieber as Scholar and Collector Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/28/11	Midday Organ Recital: Dr. Michael Diorio Adolphus Busch Hall
    04/28/11	Misplaced Objects? Things from Other Harvard Collections in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/21/11	Midday Organ Recital: Matthew Hall Adolphus Busch Hall
    04/16/11	The German Archaeologist and Art Historian Margarete Bieber (1879–1978) and Her Coin Collection Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/14/11	Midday Organ Recital: Bálint Karosi Adolphus Busch Hall
    04/11/11	Art, Faith and Storytelling: Interfaith Narrative Inspired by the Harvard Art Museum Collection
    04/07/11	The Design of Humayun’s Tomb-Garden Complex in Delhi: Spatial Logic and Landscape Linkages Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/07/11	Midday Organ Recital: Abram Bezuijen Adolphus Busch Hall
    04/06/11	Followers of Apelles: The Nahua Artists of the Florentine Codex Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/02/11	The Art of Love and Inseparability: Indian Imagery and Its Tibetan Antecedents Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/31/11	New Takes on Old Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Landscapes Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/31/11	Midday Organ Recital: Brent Elwood Erstad Adolphus Busch Hall
    03/30/11	Archaeology at Sardis in Turkey: New Discoveries and More Puzzles Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/24/11	Addison Gallery of American Art and Currier Museum of Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/24/11	Midday Organ Recital: Carson Cooman Adolphus Busch Hall
    03/10/11	Midday Organ Recital: Christian Lane Adolphus Busch Hall
    03/09/11	Statue of Meleager - In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/05/11	“Invention over Imitation”: Modernism in 1940s Argentina Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/03/11	In Conversation with Atul Bhalla Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/03/11	Midday Organ Recital: Elizabeth Lenti and Harry van Wijk Adolphus Busch Hall
    03/02/11	Wolfgang Tillmans Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/02/11	Through the Artist’s Lens: Exploration of the Photographic Works of Atul Bhalla Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    02/26/11	Identity and the Art of the Middle Ages Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    02/12/11	Who Discovered Jackson Pollock? And Why? Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    02/11/11	Harvard Treasures Tour of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
    01/29/11	Life Magazine’s Key Role in the Promotion of American Modernism Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    01/12/11	New Takes on Old Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Landscapes Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    01/04/11	Sparks of Life on Ancient Funerary Monuments Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/11/10	The Hand at Work in Italian Renaissance Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/08/10	Story and Image in Ancient Greece Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/08/10	Barberini Faun - In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/03/10- 04/02/11	I Was Not Waving but Drowning Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/23/10- 05/14/11	Brush and Ink Reconsidered: Contemporary Chinese Landscapes Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/19/10	Harvard Treasures Tour of Widener Library
    11/18/10	Matthew Hall - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    11/15/10	The Image of the Black in Western Art Thompson Room, Barker Center
    11/13/10	What Is Sculpture Today? Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/11/10	Woo-sug Kang - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    11/10/10	Surabhi Shah and Mesma Belsare - Stories: The Epic Tradition Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/04/10	Nancy Granert - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    10/28/10	Sarah Carlson - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    10/27/10	Odds Bodkin - Stories: The Epic Tradition Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/23/10	Through the Looking Glass of Conservation Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/21/10	Christoph Schoener - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    10/21/10	British Art at Harvard Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/20/10	Portraits through Coins: Carthaginian Spain
    10/16/10	Bits and Pieces: How Can We Make Sense of Objects from the Past? Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/15/10	Ink, Iron, and Icons: Fall Day Trip to Central Massachusetts Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/14/10	Gail Archer - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    10/13/10	Xanthe Gresham - Stories: The Epic Tradition Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/07/10	Karen Christianson - Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    10/06/10	Sizing Up the Shahnama in Medieval and Later Persian Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/23/10	Reading, Listening, and Viewing: Three Ways of Experiencing the Shahnama Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/23/10	Laid Out for Posterity: A Roman Tombstone Carved with a Child's Portrait and His Poem Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/22/10	Alfred Stieglitz - In-Sight Evenings: Looking Deeper and Differently Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/10/10- 01/08/11	The Art of Deceit: Looking at French Trompe l’Oeil Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    08/28/10	Painting and Sculpture in Postwar Germany Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    08/14/10	Around Antique: Works on Paper Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    07/17/10	Collecting Modernism Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    07/08/10	Summer Day Trip to Hartford, CT Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    06/26/10	Anversa e Genova: Rubens's Genoese Connection Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    06/06/10	Members' Spring Garden Party Adolphus Busch Hall
    05/21/10	Spring Day Trip to Providence, RI Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    05/19/10	Redefining “Permanent”—The Painting and Sculpture Galleries at the Museum of Modern Art Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    05/08/10	Constructing Miniatures: A Painter's Perspective Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/30/10	Harvard Treasures Tour: Tethys Mosaic
    04/28/10	Theatricality in Rubens’s Triumphal Entry of 1635 Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/28/10	The Church of What's Happening Now: Allan Sekula
    04/23/10	Domus Aurea: Nero’s “Golden House” in Rome Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/16/10	Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens (Two-Day Symposium) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/15/10	Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/11/10	Rediscovering Harvard’s Germanic Museum Adolphus Busch Hall
    04/10/10	Technical Conservation Issues of Time-Based Media Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/08/10	“Emptiness Is Fullness”: Latino Artists and US Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1960s Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    04/07/10	I'm with Stupid Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/27/10	Constructing Miniatures: A Painter's Perspective Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/24/10	Andrea Fraser in Conversation with Marjorie Garber and Helen Molesworth Thompson Room, Barker Center
    03/24/10	Coins and Classical Imagery in Baroque Festival Designs Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/23/10	Stories: Across Time and Space with Linda Fang Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/19/10	Members Event: Harvard Treasures Tour Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/10/10	The Humanist Experiment of a Syncretic Liturgy for the New Christian Kingdom of New Spain Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/09/10	Stories: Across Time and Space with Surabhi Shah Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/06/10	China Clay: The Enduring Art of Chinese Ceramics Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/03/10	Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/02/10	Stories: Across Time and Space with Jay O'Callahan Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    03/02/10	Creative Responses to Hard Times Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    02/24/10	The Machinery of Modernity Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    02/23/10	Lorna Simpson in Conversation with Robin Kelsey and Helen Molesworth Thompson Room, Barker Center
    02/17/10	Twins When They Began to Take Modified Milk Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    02/06/10	Munich Modernism: From Secessionism to Expressionism Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    01/13/10	Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/19/09	The Sudbury Bow and Its Significance for the Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/10/09	Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/05/09	Small Treasures: Discovering Islamic Art in the Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/03/09	Full Equality and How We Get There Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    12/02/09	Teaching across the Disciplines at the Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    12/01/09	World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/24/09	Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective Thompson Room, Barker Center
    11/19/09	HIV/AIDS Activism in African American Communities: The Limits of Self-Help Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    11/18/09	The Days of Creation Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/16/09	Conversation with Sanford Biggers Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/14/09	Modernism Four Ways Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    11/12/09	The Power of AIDS Activism: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden and the Disenfranchised Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    11/12/09	Who Wants to Live Forever? Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    11/12/09	ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    11/05/09- 11/06/09	Art Museums and Medical Education: Conversations across Disciplines (2 day symposium) Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies
    10/31/09	ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    10/29/09	Resistance and Revolution: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints of Jacob Lawrence Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/29/09	Is ACT UP History? A Movement That's Over, a Crisis That Isn't Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    10/28/09	Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/24/09	Why Coins in an Art Museum? Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/22/09	AIDS and Remembrance: Days of 1983 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    10/20/09	The Lady Hamlet, a play by Sarah Schulman Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    10/19/09	HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma Symposium Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    10/16/09- 10/17/09	AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema Harvard Film Archive
    10/16/09- 10/17/09	ACT UP 20 Years Later (2 day symposium) Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/15/09	Exhibition Opening Lecture and Celebration for ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
    10/10/09	New Muslim Cool Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/08/09	The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    10/08/09- 11/19/09	Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall
    10/07/09	The Harvard Buddha Hand Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum
    09/22/09	Members Evening with the Director & Harvard Students Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum

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    • Event Name: Harvard Treasures Tour: Tethys Mosaic
      "An Old Friend Of Mine"
      Comment posted by: Alan Paul Bardsley from Bolton in Lancashire, England, Jun 21, 2011
      

      Some time in the mid 90s I had the pleasure of carefully excavating and crating up of the Tethys Mosaic from the atrium Gardens of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum Georgetown under the careful eye of Susan... Expand

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      Some time in the mid 90s I had the pleasure of carefully excavating and crating up of the Tethys Mosaic from the atrium Gardens of the Dumbarton Oaks Museum Georgetown under the careful eye of Susan Boyd the Museum Curator, from whence it was lifted out over the building and stored nearby in covered sheds. I am so pleased to see it recreated and enjoyed again. Happy Memories if you read this Susan. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Matthew Hall - Midday Organ Recital
      "Sensitivity and Subtlety"
      Review posted by: John from Boston, MA, Mar 15, 2011
      

      Hall showed wonderful understanding of the subtlety and expressive potential of the French style. Melodies were ornamented fluidly and gracefully; lines arched with elan. Colorful registrations --... Expand

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      Hall showed wonderful understanding of the subtlety and expressive potential of the French style. Melodies were ornamented fluidly and gracefully; lines arched with elan. Colorful registrations -- we are not used to hearing the reedy and nasal sounds of the Flentrop used so consistently -- brought the organ and this music to life. Collapse

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    • Event Name: Resistance and Revolution: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints of Jacob Lawrence
      "Learning about Toussaint"
      Comment posted by: twf from Burbank, CA, Dec 10, 2009
      

      Of interest -- You can see a clip of Toussaint's last moments in prison from the award-winning new short film "The Last Days of Toussaint L'Ouverture" at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2468184/ This... Expand

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      Of interest -- You can see a clip of Toussaint's last moments in prison from the award-winning new short film "The Last Days of Toussaint L'Ouverture" at http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2468184/ This film is the basis for a new feature (not with Danny Glover) that is in development. Collapse

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