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Explore our collections: approximately 250,000 objects from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The vast collection contains objects spanning from c. 7000 BCE to 2014.
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Berlin-based filmmaker Hito Steyerl recently gave a lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Made in Germany?. The Harvard Gazette “Made in Germany? coaxes out the tense dialectics between a nation’s openness towards outside cultures and economies, and the nationalist rejection of that same openness…” e-flux Criticism. We’ve been named among the best college art museums in …
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The Harvard Art Museums — the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
May 20, 2023 · Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings.
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium - Harvard Art …
January 21, 2017–May 7, 2017 University Research Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums. Drawing became modern in the 18th century, when it left the confines of the artist’s studio to enter an expanded field of discourse, culture, politics, and social life. This transformation is most evident in France, where drawing was ...
Finding Its Footing: The Puzzles of an Ancient Amphora
This drawing shows objects excavated from a Sabine tomb in the late 19th century, including the amphora. After Paola Santoro, ed., Civiltà arcaica dei Sabini nella valle del Tevere (1977). This 1896 drawing suggests that the foot was partly preserved when the amphora was excavated. A Twin and a Tomb.
Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution - Harvard Art Museums
January 20, 2024–May 5, 2024 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums. Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica was commissioned by the Spanish government for the 1937 Paris World’s Fair. It was exhibited in Josep Lluís Sert’s Spanish Pavilion, alongside Joan Miró’s The Reaper and other works. Completed in early summer 1937, the ...
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
Sep 16, 2022 · See how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era, encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more. What role did drawings and prints play during the Enlightenment era, from roughly 1720 to 1800? Dare to Know explores many nuances of this complex time—when political and cultural revolutions swept across Europe and ...
Understanding Ancient Chinese Vessels - Harvard Art Museums
Jun 29, 2016 · Earthenware. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, Gift of Mrs. John Dane, 1941, 41–61–60/7161, 99320164, TL41522.9. Rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramic objects are now receiving plenty of attention as part of Prehistoric Pottery from Northwest China, an exhibition currently on view in the Harvard Art Museums ...