Spend Time at the Museums This Holiday Season!

Looking for holiday gifts? Our shop has art books, unique jewelry, gifts for the kids on your list, and more! Afterward, warm up with a frothy cappuccino from Jenny’s Cafe while relaxing in the Calderwood Courtyard.
Also be sure to see our current exhibitions—Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World and Mutiny: Works by Géricault—before they close on January 6. On Wednesday afternoons and on Saturday, December 1 (and Saturday, January 5), we’re offering free admission, including tours on selected dates!

If you’ve already visited our Animal-Shaped Vessels exhibition, please take this brief survey. We’re grateful for your input!

Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art: ALTERNATE ENDINGS, ACTIVIST RISINGS

Saturday, December 1, 2–3pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

This year’s Day With(out) Art program features six videos exploring the impact of art in AIDS activism. More

Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt

Thursday, December 6, 7–8pm
Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street

Visiting artist Jace Clayton will perform Salt Wood Salt Wire Salt Salt with music ensemble Bent Duo. This new composition serves as a companion piece to the artist’s current installation at the museums, Jace Clayton, The Great Salt. More

Now on View: Clay—Modeling African Design

Gallery 2570, Level 2
A selection of more than 50 works on loan from Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology is on display alongside works from our permanent collections, including a recently acquired contemporary photograph by Afro-futurist artist Alexis Peskine. More

Closing Soon: Time is Now

Closing Sunday, December 30
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street

Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin’s America, curated by Makeda Best, the museums’ Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography, explores the places and events that framed Baldwin’s life and themes in his writing. More

In the Press

Our new chief curator, Soyoung Lee, was named a HUBweek Change Maker. Read her interview in Medium. More

Make room on your bookshelf—four new publications are out from the Harvard Art Museums this fall and early winter. More