Lightbox Gallery Talk: Light on Rothko’s Harvard Murals and Planck’s Cosmic Microwave Background

Throughout the Cambridge Science Festival (April 15–24), join us each day in the Lightbox Gallery at 12:30pm to explore the science of light, looking, and conservation.

About today’s program:
Ronald Stark, head of astronomy at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, and Francesca Bewer, research curator for conservation and technical studies at the Harvard Art Museums, explore the poetic parallels between the recent restoration of Rothko’s Harvard Murals and the unveiling of the earliest detected structure of the universe through a sequence of light subtractions.

Can’t make it to the gallery talk? An interactive project related to the theme discussed in the talk will be on view all that day in the Lightbox Gallery.

This event will take place in the Lightbox Gallery, Level 5.

Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.