Past Exhibitions

Education

Past Exhibitions

October 15, 2009—December 23, 2009
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
September 9, 2010—October 23, 2010
White Columns, New York

Traveling Exhibition

An exhibition of politically charged posters, stickers, and other visual media that emerged during a pivotal moment of AIDS activism in New York City.

April 4, 2009—January 10, 2010
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Off-Site Exhibition

ReVisions features works from the Arthur M. Sackler Museum’s collection of 17–19th-century Indian watercolor paintings as well as the Peabody Essex Museum’s Chester and Davida Herwitz Collection, one of the largest contemporary Indian art collections outside of India.

May 18, 2008—June 30, 2008
Fogg Museum
This exhibition presents Renzo Piano Building Workshop’s schematic design for the renovation of the Harvard Art Museum facilities at 32 Quincy Street.
March 29, 2008—June 30, 2008
Busch-Reisinger Museum
An examination of the use of porcelain figurines as intriguing table decorations at elaborate baroque court festivals and banquets.
February 28, 2008—June 30, 2008
Fogg Museum

This exhibition—the artist’s first in a major museum—presents an overview of artist and writer Moyra Davey’s 20-year career summarized in 40 photographs.

November 3, 2007—January 27, 2008
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
June 28, 2008—September 14, 2008
Phoenix Art Museum
October 11, 2008—January 4, 2009
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
February 11, 2009—May 24, 2009
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence

Traveling Exhibition

More than fifty works from the collection of distinguished historian of Chinese art Chu-tsing Li demonstrate the dramatic evolution of Chinese painting in modern times and lay the foundation for a deeper understanding of the international-style works produced in China today.

November 3, 2007—February 3, 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
October 7, 2008—February 8, 2009
Asia Society Museum, New York
August 28, 2010—December 5, 2010
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta

Traveling Exhibition

The works—from practice alphabets to elaborately finished manuscripts—serve as traces of individuals, belief systems, and cultures.

November 3, 2007—February 3, 2008
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
October 7, 2008—February 8, 2009
Asia Society Museum, New York
August 28, 2010—December 5, 2010
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta

Traveling Exhibition

Presents examples of the most esteemed of the Islamic visual arts.

October 6, 2007—November 11, 2007
Fogg Museum

To commemorate Drew Gilpin Faust’s inauguration as the first woman president of Harvard University, the Art Museums will present Kara Walker’s provocative 2005 series Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated).

September 22, 2007—January 20, 2008
Arthur M. Sackler Museum

This exhibition presents full-size copies of Greek and Roman sculpture whose painted decoration, faded over the millennia, has been painstakingly reconstructed.

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