Calendar

Photo: Alexis Karl
Materials Lab Workshop: The Poetry of Scent—Fragrance in Persian and Indian Gardens [AT CAPACITY]
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA
Join artist Alexis Karl to explore aromatics inspired by the gardens of Persia and India and to make your own incense.

Funerary relief of Ba’altega, with sons Šim’on and Hairan, Palmyra (Syria), c. 150 CE. Limestone. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Alden Sampson, Richard Norton, and Edward W. Forbes, 1908.3.
Art Study Center Seminar: Rethinking Ancient Art at the Harvard Art Museums
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Come discuss current displays and future plans for exhibiting works in the ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, and Middle Eastern collections.

Terran Last Gun, Reconstructing the West, 2022. Ink and colored pencil on antique “Journal Day Book Chicago, IL.” on ledgerpaper (dated 1903). Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Christian A. Herter, Jr., by exchange, 2024.54.
Gallery Talk: Drawn to Earth: Contemporary Art and Environment in the Americas
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Madeline Murphy Turner will discuss a new installation of contemporary drawings that address ecological crises.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.

Photos: Kate Smith and Caitlin Clerkin
Gallery Talk: Investigating Color at Ancient Dura-Europos
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a conservator and curator to learn about recent research into the color and craft of wall painting at ancient Dura-Europos, Syria.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking [CANCELED]
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

Garden carpet, Iran, 18th century. Cotton warp, wool weft, and pile. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Joseph V. McMullan, 1957.137.
Gallery Talk for Fellows, Friends, and Partners of the Museums: Gardens in the Galleries
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Fellows, Friends, and Partners of the museums are invited to a special gallery talk exploring the Islamic and South Asian art collections.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Opening Celebration: A Roundtable Discussion of The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
To celebrate our new exhibition, join us for a discussion between artists Peter Lipsitt and Marjorie Minkin and art critic Karen Wilkin.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Kenneth Noland, Ring, 1964. Acrylic on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.201.
Gallery Talk: Kenneth Noland and His Radical Geometry
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
A conservator and a curator will discuss their respective approaches to Noland’s stained canvas paintings of chevrons and concentric circles.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.

Carmelo Arden Quin, Lignes Noires, 1952. Alkyd paint on wood. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Modern and Contemporary Acquisition Fund, 2011.497.
Art Study Center Seminar: Experiment and Disruption in Mid-Century Argentine Art
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Madeline Murphy Turner to explore mid-20th-century Argentine experimental art, featuring works recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums.

28th Annual Do It Your Damn Self!! National Youth Film Festival
Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall
32 Quincy Street , Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs
Join us for the premiere of the longest-running youth film festival in the country! A panel discussion with the teen filmmakers will follow.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Matte opaque paint on white paperboard. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Partners Event: Reception and Exhibition Tour of The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
We invite our Partners to a reception and a special curator-led tour of the exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.

Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Head of a Thinker, 1918, cast 1925–26. Bronze. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.196.
Gallery Talk: Wilhelm Lehmbruck’s Head of a Thinker
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join curatorial fellow Peter Murphy for an in-depth discussion of Lehmbruck’s 1918 sculpture.

Keshav Das (painter), Mir ‘Ali Haravi (calligrapher), Album page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, album: early 17th century; painting: c. 1590–1600; calligraphy: c. 1535–45. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Adrienne Rubel Mohrig, 2023.503.
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.

Drag performer Darren Tashine. Photo: Jarvis Subia.
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Marjorie Minkin, Kenai II, 1983. Acrylic on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.197. © Marjorie Minkin.
Gallery Talk: The Artist’s Toolbox—Experiments with Color in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Learn about the unusual tools artists used to make some of the colorful abstract works in our exhibition showcasing the Solomon Collection.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.

Jacob Lawrence, American, The 1920s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974. Screenprint. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lorillard, Division of Loews Theatres, Inc., Transfer from Student Print Rental Program, M26664. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on Thursday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth.

Polymnia, c. 1744–45, a Meissen porcelain figurine from the collection of the Busch-Reisinger Museum beside Arlene Shechet’s Sexy Baby Eyes, 2012; © Arlene Shechet. Image courtesy of the artist.
Gallery Talk: Disrupt the View
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join Lynette Roth for a closer look at Arlene Shechet’s one-of-a-kind installation Disrupt the View at the Harvard Art Museums.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

Edvard Munch, Angst, 1896. Woodcut printed in black ink with hand coloring in blue, green, orange, and yellow crayons and blue and red watercolor on off-white China paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.586.
Art Study Center Seminar: Edvard Munch and German Expressionism
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
This seminar will explore ties between Munch and German expressionism, examining works by Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Emil Nolde, and others.

Marjorie Minkin, Kenai II, 1983. Acrylic on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.197. © Marjorie Minkin.
Gallery Talk: The Artist’s Toolbox—Experiments with Color in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Learn about the unusual tools artists used to make some of the colorful abstract works in our exhibition showcasing the Solomon Collection.

Elaine Mayes, American, 4th of July N.Y.C., 1978. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, P2002.1.6. © Elaine Mayes.
Museums Closed
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
The Harvard Art Museums will be closed for Independence Day.

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Reverse side of Two Lawyers, c. 1865. Oil on panel. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.186.
Gallery Talk: Marks, Stamps, and Tags—Visible Traces of Provenance in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition curator Casey Monahan will discuss the visible traces of ownership seen on works from the Solomon Collection, currently on view.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.

Keshav Das (painter), Mir ‘Ali Haravi (calligrapher), Album page with Painting of a Seated Woman and Calligraphy, album: early 17th century; painting: c. 1590–1600; calligraphy: c. 1535–45. Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Adrienne Rubel Mohrig, 2023.503.
Gallery Talk: A Universal Vision—Creative Synthesis of European Prints and Indian Paintings at the Mughal Court
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover how Mughal painters combined European models with Indian meanings to appeal to a culturally and religiously diverse audience.

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1899, printed c. 1917. Woodcut, from one carved block (birch wood), sawn into three pieces, printed in four colors with hand coloring (watercolor and oil paint) on cream wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.600.
Gallery Talk: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join a Straus Center conservator in a discussion about techniques and materials in a selection of works featured in our special exhibition.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavyweight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Gallery Talk: “With Love, Jules”—The Paintings of Jules Olitski in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Discover the work of abstract painter Jules Olitski and learn about his friendship with museum benefactors Arthur and Marny Solomon.

Edvard Munch, Two Human Beings (The Lonely Ones), 1906–8. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, The Philip and Lynn Straus Collection, 2023.551.
Exhibition Tour: Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for an in-depth, hour-long tour of our special exhibition, on view through July 27, 2025.

Jules Olitski, April Dream, Lavender and Black, 2003. Opaque watercolor on heavy weight white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.233. © 2024 Jules Olitski Art Foundation/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.
Exhibition Tour: The Solomon Collection: From Dürer to Degas and Beyond
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a tour of our special exhibition The Solomon Collection: Dürer to Degas and Beyond, led by an exhibition curator.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

After Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born Enslaved!, original 1868, cast before 1972. Painted plaster. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.224.
Gallery Talk: Beneath the Surface of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Why Born Enslaved!
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for a conversation about the restoration of a painted plaster version of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s sculpture Why Born Enslaved!

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Honoré-Victorin Daumier, Reverse side of Two Lawyers, c. 1865. Oil on panel. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection, 2021.186.
Gallery Talk: Marks, Stamps, and Tags—Visible Traces of Provenance in the Solomon Collection
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Exhibition curator Casey Monahan will discuss the visible traces of ownership seen on works from the Solomon Collection, currently on view.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch as a Pilgrim, c. 1730. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.123.
Gallery Talk: Gray Area—Compassion and Companionship
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Dig deeper into the timeless tale of Saint Roch and his faithful dog.

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography
Harvard Art Museums at Night
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA,
We’re keeping our doors open late for an evening of art, fun, food, and more!

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!

Photo: Jarvis Subia
Second Saturdays Story Time
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries!
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