| | | | Welcome back from break! We’re kicking off the New Year with an array of new exhibitions, tours, and events. If the energy they generate doesn’t draw you in from the cold, you may want to get cozy with an old favorite work of art or a warm beverage in Jenny’s Café. Flyby says Jenny’s may serve “the very best Harvard-sponsored beverage on campus”! Read on for a rundown of what’s new at “32Q” (32 Quincy Street). |
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| special exhibition Picasso: War, Combat, and Revolution January 20–May 5 Explore Picasso’s deep engagement with the horrors of war, struggles of good and evil, and issues of desire and capture. |
| Exhibition Tour Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life Tuesday, January 23
12-1PM Join curator Kyle Stephan for a close look at the work of a Fluxus artist who challenged human complacency toward catastrophic world events. |
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| gallery talk New Faces on the Wall—Conserving the Portraits of Native American Leaders by Henry Inman Wednesday, January 24 & 31
12:30-1PM Hear from paintings conservator Cristina Morilla about her work on Native American portraits recently transferred to us from the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Registration required. |
| Harvard Art Museums At Night Thursday, January 25
5-9PM Celebrate the new semester with an evening of art, music, food, and drinks. |
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We're hiring! Work with us this summer as we develop museum-based programs related to U.S. citizenship, law, and interdisciplinary teaching. Harvard College students of all disciplines are welcome to apply now until February 14 through the Summer Humanities and Arts Research Program (SHARP).
Aspiring U.S. citizens are invited to register for a free 10-week course to prepare for the naturalization test through art, with tours led by Harvard College students in the the Ho Family Student Guide Program.
Spotlight tours are back! Ho Family Student Guides lead these thematic, conversational tours of the collections every Saturday and Sunday at 11AM and 2PM when classes are in session. On February 4, check out the debuts of “Art of Conservation, with Sachi Laumas ’26” and “Making Time, with Sophia Scott ’25.”
Hot off the press! A Collection of Perspectives: Ho Family Student Guides at the Harvard Art Museums, edited by Camran Mani and Cecilia Y. Zhou. This catalogue of twenty spotlight tours encapsulates the spirit of the student guide program and is now available in the museum shop.
Ph.D. students in art history can apply now through February 6 for the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art. SITSA will host a two-week workshop on “time,” June 3 to 14.
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From Our Friends...
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts invites you to an artist talk with Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork on February 1 (6-7PM) and an opening reception (7-9PM), for her first East Coast institutional solo exhibition, Poems of Electronic Air, on view February 2 to April 7.
On February 1 at 6-8PM, celebrate the opening of As the World Burns: Queer Photography and Nightlife in Boston, curated by Jackson Davidow, the Harvard Art Museums’ John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography. The exhibition is on view at the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) at 230 Fenway, along with Christian Walker: The Profane and the Poignant (co-curated by Davidow and Noam Parness).
Summer internship opportunity in Athens, Greece. Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece and the Museum of Cycladic Art invite Harvard College and Harvard graduate students to apply until March 3 for a five-week intern position, from June 28 to August 4. Learn more here. |
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Unsubscribe Image (Header): Dodge Macknight, American, New England Hillside, Winter, Gorham, New Hampshire, 19th-20th century. Watercolor on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross, 1923.128. |
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