Art Study Center Seminar: The Future

This event is at capacity

This seminar brings together works of art that take the future as their subject, as well as works that are the result of experiments with new materials and technologies. While this concept brings to mind modernist manifestos and art making modalities, we will focus on a variety of projective, predictive, divinatory, and utopian works made before 1900, and will begin to map the long history and global range of art’s forward-looking impulse. This seminar, led by Ethan W. Lasser, the Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Curator of American Art, and Glenn Adamson, senior scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, is the first in a series of scholarly gatherings planned as preparation for the Harvard Art Museums’ forthcoming exhibition The Future: A History.

The seminar will take place in the Art Study Center, Level 4.

Free admission, but capacity is limited to 15 and registration is recommended. To register, please email am_visitorservices@harvard.edu.
 
Please arrive 15 minutes before the start of the program to allow sufficient time to sign in at the Art Study Center reception desk. Note that there is a wait list for this program; spots unclaimed by 11am will be released to those on the wait list. Please be prepared to present a photo ID.
 
Lockers are available on the Lower Level, Level 1, and Level 4 to check bags, coats, umbrellas, and any food or drink.