 |  | Welcome, October! This month we are offering a online programming as varied as the changing leaves in Harvard Yard. We've highlighted a few things below, but be sure to check out our website for everything going on.
We are beyond excited to share with you the Student Print Rental Virtual Gallery, a 2020 edition of the always popular Student Print Rental Program! Please visit our website to browse a selection of prints from the Student Print Rental Collection. Whether you are on campus, at home, or elsewhere, we warmly invite you to spend time with these prints and to use the resources linked to learn more about each artwork and artist. |
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 | special event Legacies of the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Wednesday, October 7
11:30PM-12:30AM EDT In a late-night installment of 24hH: "24 Hours of Harvard," learn more about the remarkable legacy of collaboration and mutual engagement of one of Harvard's longest international projects. |
 | Art talk live Precious Deception—The Illegal Use of Gold Leaf in an 18th-Century Color Prints Thursday, October 8
2-2:30PM EDT In this talk, visiting senior scholar Margaret Morgan Grasselli will discuss an artist's elaborate efforts to conceal his connection to the illegal use of gold leaf. |
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 | art study center at home Obsession and Labor—Albert Moore’s Singular Painting Techniques Friday, October 9
11AM-12PM EDT Join conservation fellow Ruby Awburn and curatorial fellow Sophie Lynford as they discuss the results of their recent research and examination of Moore’s painting Study for “Blossoms.” |
 | HAM at home A History of Color: An Audio Tour of the Forbes Pigment Collection The Forbes Pigment Collection at the Harvard Art Museums is the world’s largest collection of historical pigments. A new audio tour of our world-famous collection is now live! Listen to the stories behind some of history’s most fascinating colors. |
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Check out this week's Student Guide Tours! Explore works of art that capture and manipulate light with Alexis Boo '22 on October 8 at 8pm ET. Then join Adam Sella '22 on October 10 at 11am ET to considers different ideas of spirituality and how these appear in artworks.
Next Monday we celebrate Indigenous Peoples' Day. In honor of this holiday, we want to highlight a few museums who commemorate and celebrate the Native American peoples, their histories, and cultures. The National Museum of the American Indian cares for one of the world's most expansive collections of Native artifacts covering the entire Western Hemisphere. The Abbe Museum in Maine inspires new learning about the Wabanaki Nations through archaeology and contemporary art. The Eiteljorg Museum is one of only two museums east of the Mississippi that explore both Native America and the American West.
The Harvard Art Museums acknowledge that Harvard University is situated on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Massachusett people and we strive to honor this relationship.
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From Our Friends...
Thanks to a digitization project, you can now explore the Museum of Comparative Zoology's famed 19th-century glass marine invertebrates online. You can click, drag, and rotate the collection here. And read more about the project here.
The GSD is pleased to present a series of talks and webinars broadcast via Zoom. Today's talk will be an exploration of the affinities between sensing and cinematic capture with artists and designers Metahaven. And on October 15, celebrated chef Marcus Samuelsson will share reflections on race, class, place and equity in the American food landscape. Registration is required for both programs.
As part of the presidential initiative on Harvard and the Legacy of Slavery, the Radcliffe Institute, PMAE, and HMSC are presenting a panel discussion to examine the role and impact of slavery in the North and discuss the influence of Harvard professor Louis Agassiz and how Black abolitionists responded to scientific racism. More info about the virtual event can be found here.
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Image (Header): Wendy Red Star, Fall, 2006. Archival pigment print.Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2018.188.1. © Wendy Red Star.
Image (A History of Color): © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Photo Credit: Caitlin Cunningham Photography. |
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