Past Exhibitions
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Off-Site Exhibition
A selection of videos by the artist, filmmaker, and photographer Laurel Nakadate, whose work pushes the boundaries of voyeurism, exhibitionism, and vulnerability.
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston
Traveling Exhibition
A rich display of prints, books, maps, and scientific instruments exploring the role of celebrated artists in the scientific inquiries of the 16th century.
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
Northwest Science Building, Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Off-Site Exhibition
This three-part exhibition comprises installations by Olafur Eliasson, Saraceno, and Ai Weiwei and explores the realms in which art, architecture, and design intersect.
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne
Traveling Exhibition
This exhibition presents little-known drawings and watercolors by the German-American modernist Lyonel Feininger, drawn largely from holdings at the Busch-Reisinger Museum.
Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Pinakothek der Moderne
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Focusing on a rich and productive period when Feininger was experimenting with an array of avant-garde photographic techniques, this exhibition offers the first opportunity to consider his achievement within the medium.
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
Harvard Museum of Natural History, Harvard University
Houghton Library, Harvard University
Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University
Semitic Museum, Harvard University
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
University-Wide Exhibition
Questioning the modern Western intellectual categories that distinguish art from artifact, specimen from tool, and the historical from the anthropological, Tangible Things brings together materials from Harvard’s museum and archival collections.
W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
Off-Site Exhibition
This exhibition shows the roles that figures of black Africans occupy in European works of art, especially in Renaissance and Baroque prints.
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University
Off-Site Exhibition
This exhibition organized by students explores work by artists, artisans, and scientists on the presentation of knowledge and the role of printed images in 16th- and 17th-century Europe.
Vedat Nedim Tör Museum, Istanbul
Off-Site Exhibition
This exhibition brings together Lydian material from seven Turkish museums, as well as from excavation depots at Miletus and at Sardis, the capital of the Lydian Empire.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Off-Site Exhibition
This exhibition and the accompanying catalogue distill over 30 years of scholarly research on Rembrandt’s working practice and teaching process.