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Harvard Art Museum

The Harvard Art Museum is one of the world’s leading arts institutions, comprising three museums (Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum) and four research centers (Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museum Archives, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Turkey). The Harvard Art Museum is distinguished by the range and depth of its collection, its groundbreaking exhibitions, and the original research of its staff. As an integral part of Harvard and the community, the three art museums and four research centers serve as resources for students, scholars, and visitors. For more than a century, the Harvard Art Museum has been the nation’s premier training ground for museum professionals and scholars and is renowned for its seminal role in the development of the discipline of art history in this country.

In June 2008, the Harvard Art Museum's 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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    32 Quincy Street
    Cambridge, MA 02138

    Phone: 617-495-9400

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    08/28/10	Painting and Sculpture in Postwar Germany Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Painting and Sculpture in Postwar Germany Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum August 28, 2010 Joanna Wendel, curatorial assistant, Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum This talk will address four works that engage provocatively with the traditions of painting and sculpture and are shaped by issues in postwar German society: Gerhard Richter's Table (1962), Georg Baselitz's Curly Head (1967), Joseph Beuy's Back Support for a Fine-Limbed Person (Hare-Type) of the 20th Century A.D. (1972), and Rosemarie Trockel's Shutter (c)...
    08/14/10	Around Antique: Works on Paper Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Around Antique: Works on Paper Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum August 14, 2010 Emily Hankle, Cunningham Curatorial Assistant for Prints; Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography; and Miriam Stewart, assistant curator of drawings The museum's collections of works on paper are strong in objects associated with the ancient world. This talk will expore works in the installation Around Antique: Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, including drawings after classical sculptures,...
    07/17/10	Collecting Modernism Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Collecting Modernism Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum July 17, 2010 Sarah Kianovsky, assistant curator, Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum Over the years, the Harvard Art Museum has received several important donations of late 19th- and early 20th-century European art. This talk will consider the complex interactions among stylistic developments, taste, historical events, and the art market in the creation of collections. Free with the price of admission. Open to the...
    07/08/10	Summer Day Trip to Hartford, CT Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Summer Day Trip to Hartford, CT Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum July 8, 2010 Alice DeLana, Harvard Art Museum docent Join us on a tour of notable art collections in Connecticut. We will begin with a visit to the Wadsworth Atheneum, the nation's oldest public art museum and home to one of its best American art collections. After lunch we will tour the renowned French impressionist painting collection at the Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington. Participants will also enjoy a glimpse of the Chick Austin House, home of the Atheneum's legendary director, A....
    06/26/10	Anversa e Genova: Rubens's Genoese Connection Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Anversa e Genova: Rubens's Genoese Connection Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum June 26, 2010 Edward Wouk, PhD candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University This talk, related to the installation Rubens and the Baroque Festival, places the artist's decoration for the entry of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain into Antwerp (1635) in the context of a long-standing relationship between the bustling metropolis in the north and Genoa, an important Mediterranean harbor in Italy. Rubens and the Baroque Festival is one of a...
    06/06/10	Members' Spring Garden Party Adolphus Busch Hall Members' Spring Garden Party Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Adolphus Busch Hall June 6, 2010 Enjoy tours of Adolphus Busch Hall, with its dramatic Romanesque architecture, as well as light refreshments, music, and drawing lessons in the garden. Children are welcome. Members $15; guests $20; children $5; complimentary tickets for members at the Supporting level and above. Space is limited. Members will receive invitations in the mail. Please register by June 1; call 617-495-4544 or email ...
    05/21/10	Spring Day Trip to Providence, RI Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Spring Day Trip to Providence, RI Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 21, 2010 Alice DeLana, Harvard Art Museum docent Discover several intriguing arts destinations in Providence on this daylong excursion. We will start at the Rhode Island School of Design's recently expanded museum; explore Fleet Library at RISD, sampling its remarkable collection of artist's books; and conclude at Brown University's John Carter Brown Library, with its outstanding collection of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial period of the Americas, North and...
    05/19/10	Redefining “Permanent”—The Painting and Sculpture Galleries at the Museum of Modern Art Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Redefining “Permanent”—The Painting and Sculpture Galleries at the Museum of Modern Art Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 19, 2010 Ann Temkin (Harvard AB'81), Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art traditionally maintained a distinction between spaces devoted to its collection of paintings and sculpture, where installations were relatively fixed. Under Ann Temkin, the collection galleries have become a site for fluid displays—an approach that has brought on view a great many works not seen for decades. She will...
    05/08/10	Constructing Miniatures: A Painter's Perspective Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Constructing Miniatures: A Painter's Perspective Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum May 8, 2010 Maliha Noorani, 2009-11 Norma Jean Calderwood Curatorial Fellow, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In conjunction with the installation Strolling through Isfahan: Seventeenth-Century Paintings from Safavid Iran, this gallery talk will demonstrate traditional techniques and materials used in the practice of Persian miniature painting. Maliha Noorani holds a BFA in Indian and Islamic miniature painting from the National...
    04/30/10	Harvard Treasures Tour: Tethys Mosaic Harvard Treasures Tour: Tethys Mosaic Presented by Harvard Art Museum April 30, 2010 Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M. A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Enter Morgan Hall and find yourself in the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire. Installed in the atrium of this Harvard Business School building is a large and colorful Byzantine mosaic of the Greek sea goddess Tethys surrounded by different species of fish. The 4th-century mosaic, in stone and glass, once graced an octagonal pool in a bath building in Antioch, Roman...
    04/28/10	Theatricality in Rubens’s Triumphal Entry of 1635 Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Theatricality in Rubens’s Triumphal Entry of 1635 Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 28, 2010 Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk Ivan Gaskell, Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum, and senior lecturer, Department of History, Harvard University Robert Scanlan, professor of the practice of theater, Harvard University Much of what we think of as theatrical (costumes, arrangements, framing) was invented by painters. This applies to Rubens’s arches and stages for the procession of the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand through...
    04/28/10	The Church of What's Happening Now: Allan Sekula The Church of What's Happening Now: Allan Sekula Presented by Harvard Art Museum April 28, 2010 Allan Sekula, artist, in conversation with Homi Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities and director, Humanities Center, Harvard University, and Benjamin Buchloh, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Modern Art, Harvard University. The Church of What's Happening Now: New Art, New Artists series is cosponsored by the Harvard Art Museum and the Humanitites Center at Harvard. This lecture was made possible by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund. The...
    04/23/10	Domus Aurea: Nero’s “Golden House” in Rome Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Domus Aurea: Nero’s “Golden House” in Rome Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 23, 2010 George M. A. Hanfmann Memorial Lecture with Adriano La Regina, chair of Etruscology, La Sapienza University, and director, National Institute of Archaeology and History of Art, Rome Professor La Regina, for many years the superintendent of antiquities for the city of Rome, will explore the location and size of Emperor Nero’s legendary palace, the Domus Aurea. He will look at the surviving parts of the palace, discuss their relationship to other buildings, and consider the...
    04/16/10	Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens (Two-Day Symposium) Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Art, Music, and Spectacle in the Age of Rubens (Two-Day Symposium) Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 16, 2010 On April 17, 1635, the city government of Antwerp mounted a spectacular urban festival to welcome its new ruler, the Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, brother of King Philip IV of Spain. Entering the city, he passed nine temporary arches and stages designed by the Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens to flatter the new governor and impress on him the concerns of the city. This interdisciplinary symposium will consider the art, architecture, music, performances, and festival books associated with the...
    04/15/10	Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Coins and Cultures in Western Sicily Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 15, 2010 Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture with N. Keith Rutter, professor emeritus, University of Edinburgh This lecture will explore relationships among the three peoples of western Sicily — Elymians, Phoenicians, and Greeks — in the 5th century BC, not in terms of traditional accounts of their eternal enmities from the ancient historians, but through their coinages, which seem to suggest an openness in relations. Free admission. Open to the...
    04/11/10	Rediscovering Harvard’s Germanic Museum Adolphus Busch Hall Rediscovering Harvard’s Germanic Museum Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Adolphus Busch Hall April 11, 2010 Gallery Talk with Nathan Timpano, 2009–10 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow, Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum Adolphus Busch Hall once housed Harvard’s Germanic Museum, a precursor of the Busch-Reisinger. This talk will trace the museum’s history through a discussion of architecture, historiography, the museum’s collection of plaster casts, and the nostalgia for pre-modern Germanic art that existed in the 19th and early 20th centuries. A review...
    04/10/10	Technical Conservation Issues of Time-Based Media Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Technical Conservation Issues of Time-Based Media Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 10, 2010 Andrew W. Mellon Symposium in Conservation Science This symposium brings together scientists, conservators, artists, and curators to discuss the conservation issues of time-based media. It will focus on current scientific and technical topics as well as possible directions for future research. Organized by Lynn Lee, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science, Harvard Art Museum/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies. Speakers include Mark...
    04/08/10	“Emptiness Is Fullness”: Latino Artists and US Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1960s Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum “Emptiness Is Fullness”: Latino Artists and US Avant-Garde Art in the 1950s and 1960s Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 8, 2010 Latin American Leventritt Lecture with Chon Noriega, director, UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Considering the participation of Latino artists in the American avant-garde, this lecture will focus on the work of Raphael Montañez Ortiz from 1957 to 1968. Presented as part of the collaboration between the Harvard Art Museum and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies to bring scholarship in Latin American art to the Harvard and surrounding...
    04/07/10	I'm with Stupid Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum I'm with Stupid Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum April 7, 2010 Lecture Series, In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently Lecture by Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum Rachel Harrison's I'm with Stupid, in the Harvard Art Museum's collection, is an aggressive and funny sculpture that refuses easy interpretation or categorization. It is as painterly as it is sculptural, and while as sculpture it nods to the history of the medium, its materials very much feel like the children's...
    03/27/10	Constructing Miniatures: A Painter's Perspective Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Constructing Miniatures: A Painter's Perspective Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 27, 2010 Gallery Talk with Maliha Noorani, 2009–11 Norma Jean Calderwood Curatorial Fellow, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In conjunction with the installation Strolling through Isfahan: Seventeenth-Century Paintings from Safavid Iran, this gallery talk will demonstrate traditional techniques and materials used in the practice of Persian miniature painting. Maliha Noorani holds a BFA in Indian and Islamic miniature...
    03/24/10	Andrea Fraser in Conversation with Marjorie Garber and Helen Molesworth Thompson Room, Barker Center Andrea Fraser in Conversation with Marjorie Garber and Helen Molesworth Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Thompson Room, Barker Center March 24, 2010 Andrea Fraser, artist, in conversation with Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and of Visual and Environmental Studies and director, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, and Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum. The Church of What’s Happening Now: New Art, New Artists series is cosponsored by the Harvard Art Museum and the Humanities Center at Harvard. Presented in...
    03/24/10	Coins and Classical Imagery in Baroque Festival Designs Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Coins and Classical Imagery in Baroque Festival Designs Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 24, 2010 Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk Anna Knaap, Theodore Rousseau Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Paintings, Sculpture & Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, Damarete Curator of Ancient Coins, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, and lecturer on classics, Harvard University This talk will consider the images on display in the installation Rubens and the Baroque Festival, with special emphasis on the...
    03/23/10	Stories: Across Time and Space with Linda Fang Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Stories: Across Time and Space with Linda Fang Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 23, 2010 Folk tales and other stories rooted in Chinese history and culture. To learn more about storyteller Linda Fang, please visit her website: www.chinesestoryteller.com. In this series, three outstanding storytellers will share traditional and modern stories, for adult audiences, that speak to the head and the heart. Free admission. Open to the public. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.
    03/19/10	Members Event: Harvard Treasures Tour Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Members Event: Harvard Treasures Tour Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 19, 2010 Special Member Event Ray Traetti, associate director of facilities, Memorial Hall/Lowell Hall Complex Memorial Hall was built to commemorate the patriotism of the graduates and students of Harvard who served in the US Army and Navy during the Civil War. Designed by William Ware and Henry Van Brunt and completed in 1878, the Ruskinian Gothic building is a dramatic example of the architectural style of its time. Within it is Annenberg Hall, a private undergraduate dining...
    03/10/10	The Humanist Experiment of a Syncretic Liturgy for the New Christian Kingdom of New Spain Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Humanist Experiment of a Syncretic Liturgy for the New Christian Kingdom of New Spain Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 10, 2010 Pablo Escalante Gonzalbo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Native Mesoamerican symbols, ornaments, singing, and dancing played a central role in 16th-century Christian liturgy in New Spain. Spanish friars, mostly Franciscans, believed that this syncretic practice would result in more authentic Christian worship among indigenous people. Religious and secular authorities supported intercultural dialogue, especially in the Franciscan school in Tlatelolco, the...
    03/09/10	Stories: Across Time and Space with Surabhi Shah Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Stories: Across Time and Space with Surabhi Shah Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 9, 2010 Storyteller Surabhi Shah performs stories of devotion and heroism from the Jain and Hindu traditions. In this series, three outstanding storytellers will share traditional and modern stories, for adult audiences, that speak to the head and the heart. Free admission. Open to the public. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu.
    03/06/10	China Clay: The Enduring Art of Chinese Ceramics Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum China Clay: The Enduring Art of Chinese Ceramics Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 6, 2010 Gallery Talk with Melissa A. Moy, Cunningham Assistant Curator of Chinese Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum This talk with introduce the elegant Chinese stonewares and porcelains on display in Re-View and discuss the influence of the Chinese traditions they represent on other East Asian ceramics, including the 12th–13th-century Korean celadons and contemporary Japanese ceramic sculptures also on view. Free with the price of admission. Open to...
    03/03/10	Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Mosaic of Two Figures Seated on a Couch Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 3, 2010 Lecture Series, In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently Lecture by Amy Brauer, Diane Heath Beever Associate Curator of Ancient Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum In the 1930s excavations along the banks of the Orontes River (modern Asi) in Turkey uncovered nearly 300 mosaic pavements from the ancient city of Antioch. Depicting interiors, landscapes, classical figures, and decorative devices, they provide a sample of the pictorial arts of the Roman East....
    03/02/10	Stories: Across Time and Space with Jay O'Callahan Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Stories: Across Time and Space with Jay O'Callahan Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 2, 2010 Commissioned by NASA, O’Callahan’s latest work highlights the technological innovation, heroic risks, and pursuit of knowledge central to life in the 20th century. To learn more about storyteller Jay O’Callahan, please visit his website: www.ocallahan.com. In this series, three outstanding storytellers will share traditional and modern stories, for adult audiences, that speak to the head and the heart. Free admission. Open to the public. For more...
    03/02/10	Creative Responses to Hard Times Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Creative Responses to Hard Times Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 2, 2010 Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk Deborah Martin Kao, head curator and Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum Ryan McKittrick, dramaturg, American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) Whitney Eggers, dramaturg for the A.R.T.’s Paradise Lost Paradise Lost, a Depression-era play by Clifford Odets, raises questions about the nature of love, greed, loss, hope, empathy, and humanity. In connection with the...
    02/24/10	The Machinery of Modernity Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Machinery of Modernity Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 24, 2010 Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk Ray Williams, director of education, Harvard Art Museum, and adjunct lecturer in public humanities, Brown University Steve Lubar, director, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, and professor, departments of American Civilization and History, Brown University How did 20th-century artists respond to the rapid industrialization and technological innovation of their time? What can we learn...
    02/23/10	Lorna Simpson in Conversation with Robin Kelsey and Helen Molesworth Thompson Room, Barker Center Lorna Simpson in Conversation with Robin Kelsey and Helen Molesworth Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Thompson Room, Barker Center February 23, 2010 Lorna Simpson, artist, in conversation with Robin Kelsey, Shirley Carter Burden Professor of Photography, Harvard University, and Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum. The Church of What’s Happening Now: New Art, New Artists series is cosponsored by the Harvard Art Museum and the Humanities Center at Harvard. Free admission. Open to the public. Seating is limited. The M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Fund was...
    02/17/10	Twins When They Began to Take Modified Milk Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Twins When They Began to Take Modified Milk Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 17, 2010 Lecture Series, In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently Lecture by Michelle Lamunière, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Assistant Curator of Photography, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum This compelling photograph of a mother and her twins is the basis for a larger discussion of Harvard's Social Museum, a compilation of photographs and graphic material established in 1903 to collect the social experience of the world as material for university teaching. The...
    02/06/10	Munich Modernism: From Secessionism to Expressionism Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Munich Modernism: From Secessionism to Expressionism Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum February 6, 2010 Gallery Talk with Nathan Timpano, 2009–10 Stefan Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow, Harvard Art Museum/Busch-Reisinger Museum Three paintings on display in Re-View chart the fascinating development of modern painting in Munich at the turn of the 20th century. This talk will focus on Franz von Stuck’s Wounded Amazon (1905), Lovis Corinth’s Portrait of the Sculptor Friedrich (1904), and Franz Marc’s The Red Horses (1911). Free with the price of admission. Open...
    01/13/10	Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum January 13, 2010 Lecture Series, In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently Lecture by Ivan Gaskell, Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum; and senior lecturer, Department of History, Harvard University Eugeniusz Kazimirowski's Jesus Christ as the Divine Mercy is arguably the most famous Christian miraculous image of the 20th century. Deriving from the vision of a canonized Polish nun, the original...
    12/19/09	The Sudbury Bow and Its Significance for the Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Sudbury Bow and Its Significance for the Harvard Art Museum Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum December 19, 2009 Gallery talk with Ivan Gaskell, Margaret S. Winthrop Curator, Department of Paintings, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum and senior lecturer, Department of History, Harvard University It may seem unusual to include a Native American archer's bow, on loan from Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, in an exhibition of European and American art. Ivan Gaskell will discuss the thinking behind the bow's placement and ambitions to...
    12/10/09	Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Rogier van der Weyden's Later Works: Art Historical Consequences of the Recent Cleaning of the Frankfurt Medici Madonna Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum December 10, 2009 Lecture by Jochen Sander, Städel Museum and Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main A recent cleaning and technical analysis has transformed our understanding of this late painting by the early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden. The speaker will discuss the ways in which new information affects our view of the artist's later development and his place in art history. Free admission. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576...
    12/05/09	Small Treasures: Discovering Islamic Art in the Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Small Treasures: Discovering Islamic Art in the Harvard Art Museum Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum December 5, 2009 Gallery talk with Maliha Noorani, Norma Jean Calderwood Curatorial Fellow, Department of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum This talk will consider the history and background of selected objects from the Islamic collection, including the recently installed rotation on the sacred world of Sufism. Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis is on view August 6, 2009–January 3, 2010 at the Arthur M. Sackler...
    12/03/09	Full Equality and How We Get There Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Full Equality and How We Get There Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts December 3, 2009 Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest Jarrett T. Barrios, president, Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) Sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director. Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison...
    12/02/09	Teaching across the Disciplines at the Harvard Art Museum Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Teaching across the Disciplines at the Harvard Art Museum Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum December 2, 2009 Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk Kelsey McNiff, museum educator, university audiences, Harvard Art Museum Marlon Kuzmick, preceptor, Harvard College Writing Program Works of art on view and the museum space itself can be used to introduce undergraduates to new ways of thinking and engaging the world around them. Taking the Harvard College Writing Program as an example, the speakers will explore opportunities for teaching in the galleries. This...
    12/01/09	World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum World AIDS Day Lecture: Seeing AIDS Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum December 1, 2009 Lecture by Philip Yenawine, co-founding director, Visual Understanding in Education Director of education at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from 1983 to 1993, Yenawine was engaged with activist artists. He will reflect on the impact of AIDS on the cultural sector, artists' responses to the crisis, and December 1 as "A Day without Art." Free admission. Sackler galleriers will remain open until 6pm. For more information, please contact Susannah...
    11/24/09	Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective Thompson Room, Barker Center Mark Doty, Eileen Myles, and an AIDS Poetic Retrospective Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Thompson Room, Barker Center November 24, 2009 Poetry reading in Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Doty is the author of My Alexandria and winner of a 2008 National Book Award. Myles, hailed as "the rock star of modern poetry," is the author of over 20 volumes of poetry, most recently Sorry, Tree. They will be joined by Harvard undergraduate poets reciting works by writers — Tory Dent, Melvin Dixon, Thom Gunn, Tony Kushner, James Merrill, and others — whose words have...
    11/19/09	HIV/AIDS Activism in African American Communities: The Limits of Self-Help Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts HIV/AIDS Activism in African American Communities: The Limits of Self-Help Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts November 19, 2009 Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest Lecture by Evelynn M. Hammonds, Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and of African and African American Studies, and Dean of Harvard College Sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director. Free admission. Meet in the Sert...
    11/18/09	The Days of Creation Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Days of Creation Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum November 18, 2009 Lecture Series, In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently Lecture by Miriam Stewart, assistant curator, Department of Drawings, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum When Henry James saw Edward Burne-Jones's watercolor series The Days of Creation exhibited in 1877, he noted the artist's "imagination, his fertility of invention, his exquisiteness of work, his remarkable gifts as a colourist." This splendid series in the Harvard Art Museum collection invites close...
    11/16/09	Conversation with Sanford Biggers Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Conversation with Sanford Biggers Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum November 16, 2009 Sanford Biggers, artist Steven Nelson, associate professor of African and African American art history, University of California at Los Angeles Helen Molesworth, Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum Drawing on the ethnological study of objects, urban culture, and popular icons, Sanford Biggers integrates music, performance, video, and sculpture to create multisensory installations of unusual power. Helen Molesworth...
    11/14/09	Modernism Four Ways Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Modernism Four Ways Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum November 14, 2009 Gallery Talk with Melissa Renn, research associate, Department of American Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum Four paintings on display in Re-View offer a fascinating glimpse of the range of styles, painting methods, and types of patronage that characterized American art between the 1920s and 1950s: Georgia O'Keeffe's Red and Pink (1925), Charles Sheeler's Upper Deck (1929), Jackson Pollock's No. 2(1950), and Jacob Lawrence's Ventriloquist...
    11/12/09	The Power of AIDS Activism: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden and the Disenfranchised Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts The Power of AIDS Activism: Defying the Convergence of the Forbidden and the Disenfranchised Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts November 12, 2009 Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest Lecture by Amber Hollibaugh, queer activist and author, My Dangerous Desires Sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director. Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison...
    11/12/09	Who Wants to Live Forever? Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Who Wants to Live Forever? Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts November 12, 2009 Student performance with choreography and direction by Trevor Martin ’10. Free admission. Meet in the main gallery, first floor. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or susannah_hutchison@harvard.edu. The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over 70 politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that...
    11/12/09	ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts November 12, 2009 Gallery Talk by Helen Molesworth, exhibition co-curator and Houghton Curator of Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal policy and medical practice. Free admission. Gallery...
    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 Art Museums and Medical Education: Conversations across Disciplines (2 day symposium) Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies November 5-November 6, 2009 M. Victor Leventritt Symposium Tsai Auditorium, Center for Government and International Studies, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge This two-day gathering will explore recent trends in which art museums collaborate in training health-care professionals. Some of the programs support the development of observation and diagnostic skills, while others foster empathy, build community, or enhance cultural understanding. This symposium is a collaborative program of Harvard...
    10/31/09	ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 31, 2009 Gallery Talk with Claire Grace, exhibition co-curator and Agnes Mongan Curatorial Intern, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museum/Fogg Museum This talk will explore posters, stickers, and public art projects made by art collectives that emerged out of New York’s AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). Powerful graphics helped transform entrenched ideas about sexuality and played an enormous role in changing legal policy and medical...
    10/29/09	Resistance and Revolution: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints of Jacob Lawrence Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Resistance and Revolution: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Prints of Jacob Lawrence Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 29, 2009 M. Victor Leventritt Lecture by Patricia Hills, Boston University Created between 1986 and 1997, these 15 silkscreen prints by Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) tell the story of the man who was born a slave but rose to lead the liberation of Haiti. This is a collaborative program of the Harvard Art Museum and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research. A reception and viewing of the prints will follow at the Rudenstine Gallery, Du Bois...
    10/29/09	Is ACT UP History? A Movement That's Over, a Crisis That Isn't Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Is ACT UP History? A Movement That's Over, a Crisis That Isn't Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 29, 2009 Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest Lecture by Christopher Capozzola, associate professor of history, MIT Sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director. Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576...
    10/28/09	Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Sacred Spaces: The World of Dervishes, Fakirs, and Sufis Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 28, 2009 Two-Point Perspective Gallery Talk Sunil Sharma, assistant professor of Persianate and comparative literature, Boston University Samina Quraeshi, Gardner Fellow and visiting artist, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University This rotation in the Islamic and Later Indian art gallery combines representations of Islamic holy men in Sufi traditions with calligraphic specimens of mystical texts. The talk will consider the images on display...
    10/24/09	Why Coins in an Art Museum? Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Why Coins in an Art Museum? Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 24, 2009 Lecture by Carmen Arnold-Biucchi, curator of numismatic collections, Harvard Art Museum/Arthur M. Sackler Museum and lecturer on the classics, Harvard University Introducing the coin display in the exhibition Re-View, this talk will look at ancient coins as masterpieces in miniature of Greek and Roman sculpture. Included are signed works of the Sicilian engravers Kimon, Euainetos, and Herakleidas, as well as unsigned works of their precursors. Free admission (admission...
    10/22/09	AIDS and Remembrance: Days of 1983 Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts AIDS and Remembrance: Days of 1983 Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 22, 2009 Lecture Series, ACT-ing UP: The Living Legacy of AIDS Protest Lecture by William Rubenstein, professor of law, Harvard Law School Sponsored by the Human Rights and Social Movements Program, Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, Harvard Kennedy School. Lectures will be introduced by Timothy Patrick McCarthy, program director. Free admission. Meet in the Sert Gallery, second floor. For more information, please contact Susannah Hutchison at 617-496-8576 or...
    10/20/09	The Lady Hamlet, a play by Sarah Schulman Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts The Lady Hamlet, a play by Sarah Schulman Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 20, 2009 A discussion with the playwright follows a reading by members of the American Repertory Theater, including actress Kate Burton. Part of the A.R.T.'s Shakespeare Exploded! series. Free admission. For more information, please call 617-495-2668 or visit: www.amrep.org. The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over 70 politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual...
    10/19/09	HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma Symposium Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts HIV Denialism, Mistrust, and Stigma Symposium Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 19, 2009 Symposium organized by the Harvard University Center for AIDS Research and the Harvard Initiative for Global Health. For more information, please call 617-495-8231 or visit: cfar.globalhealth.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k58622&pageid=icb.page268218. Free admission. The above program is presented in conjunction with ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993, an exhibition of over 70 politically-charged posters, stickers, and other visual...
    10/16/09- 10/17/09	AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema Harvard Film Archive AIDS Activist Shorts and the Emergence of Queer Cinema Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Film Archive October 16-October 17, 2009 The Harvard Film Archive presents films and videos that document the political struggles around AIDS and demonstrate through their formal experiments that the epidemic was a crisis of signification. Artists include Gregg Bordowitz, Jean Carlomusto, the Gran Fury collective, John Greyson, Barbara Hammer, Isaac Julien, Tom Kalin, Carol Leigh, Nino Rodriguez, Rosa von Praunheim, and David Wojnarowicz. For ticket prices and other information, please call 617-495-4700 or visit:...
    10/16/09- 10/17/09	ACT UP 20 Years Later (2 day symposium) Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum ACT UP 20 Years Later (2 day symposium) Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 16-October 17, 2009 This symposium will assess the activism and visual media that came out of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP) and the AIDS crisis more generally from perspectives including queer theory, art history and criticism, public health, and the history of social movements. Friday, October 16, 2009; 5:00–6:30pm Illegitimacy Leo Bersani, professor emeritus of French, University of California, Berkeley Saturday, October 17, 2009;...
    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 Exhibition Opening Lecture and Celebration for ACT UP New York: Activism, Art, and the AIDS Crisis, 1987–1993 Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts October 15, 2009 6:00pm Carpenter Center Lecture Collective Action: Calling All Artists Robert Vazquez Pacheco, artist and writer, member of Gran Fury Avram Finkelstein, artist and writer, member of Gran Fury and Silence=Death Project Sarah Schulman, co-director, ACT UP Oral History Project; novelist, historian, and playwright; professor of English, City University of New York Jim Hubbard, co-director, ACT UP Oral History Project;...
    10/10/09	New Muslim Cool Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum New Muslim Cool Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 10, 2009 Screening of New Muslim Cool. Hamza Pérez will be on hand to answer questions about the film New Muslim Cool, which is based on his life experiences as a Puerto Rican-American, rapper, former drug dealer, family man, and spiritual leader. The film has been selected for the San Francisco International Film Festival and the Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center. This event is made possible by Harvard's Pluralism Project (www.pluralism.org), a research...
    10/08/09	The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Art and Peril of Reconstructing Roman Space Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 8, 2009 M. Victor Leventritt Seminar with Bettina Bergmann, Helene Phillips Herzig ’49 Professor of Art, Mount Holyoke College Victoria I, artist/designer Taking two- and three-dimensional actual and virtual models of Roman houses and villas as the starting point, this seminar addresses how different forms of reconstruction tell us not just about the object of reconstruction, but about the limits of our knowledge and evolving historical perspectives. Room 318. Free...
    10/08/09- 11/19/09	Midday Organ Recital Adolphus Busch Hall Midday Organ Recital Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Adolphus Busch Hall October 8-November 19, 2009 10/8/09: Gail Archer, concert organist, New York 10/15/09: Christian Lane, assistant university organist and choirmaster, The Memorial Church, Harvard University 10/22/09: Mitchell Crawford, assistant organist, Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York 10/29/09: Douglas Bruce, parish organist, St. Franz Xaver Church, Münchenstein, Switzerland 11/5/09: Nancy Granert, organist, Emmanuel Church in the City of Boston and organist in residence, The Memorial...
    10/07/09	The Harvard Buddha Hand Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum The Harvard Buddha Hand Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum October 7, 2009 Lecture Series, In-Sight: Looking Deeper and Differently Lecture with Yukio Lippit, Harris K. Weston Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University Through a remarkable display of art-historical acumen, this left hand in the Harvard Art Museum’s collection was recently determined to belong to a large Japanese Buddhist icon by the 13th-century master sculptor Kaikei. His figure of the Buddha was a key component in...
    09/22/09	Members Evening with the Director & Harvard Students Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum Members Evening with the Director & Harvard Students Presented by Harvard Art Museum at Harvard Art Museum/ Arthur M. Sackler Museum September 22, 2009 Please join Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museum, for a reception and thematic gallery tours created and led by students. Open to members ($15) and their guests ($20); complimentary admission for members at Supporting level and above. To learn about membership and to register, please call 617-495-0534 or email artmuseum_membership@harvard.edu. Complimentary parking at Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street. Members will receive...

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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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