Virtual Student Guide Tour: This Land Is Whose Land?, with Jacqueline Zoeller
On this tour commemorating Native American Heritage Month, Jacqueline Zoeller '23 will contrast colonial visions of the Western U.S. landscape, such as Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountains, "Lander's Peak" (1863), with the realities lived and portrayed by Native American artists. Stops on the tour will include Diné artist Will Wilson's Mexican Hat Disposal Cell (2020), a landscape photograph of Halchita, Utah, the Navajo...
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Abstract Bodies, with Paul Tamburro
Paul Tamburro '22 will explore the tension between abstraction and figural representation in three works of art.
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Mom Matrix, with Sinead Danagher
Sinead Danagher '22 will explore the representation of motherhood as seen in three works of art: the wood sculpture Virgin and Child in Majesty [Seat of Divine Wisdom] made in 12th-century France; the erotic Madonna lithograph made by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in Berlin in 1895; and the woodcut Widow I (1922–23) that Käthe Kollwitz—artist and mother of two sons—made in Berlin...
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Staged, with Maeve Miller
In her tour, Maeve Miller '22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years after the heyday of his involvement with the Expressionist art movement; the painting Ventriloquist (1952), which Jacob Lawrence made in Harlem, New York, as part of his Performance Series; and a woodblock print depicting...
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Arnold Arboretum: Guided Tour
Join us for a free, 90-minute walk through the Arboretum! Tour seasonal plant highlights and learn about Arboretum history from a trained docent. The walk is geared toward adults, and starts from the kiosk in front of the Hunnewell Building at 125 Arborway.
This tour is limited to 15 participants.
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: World in a Vessel
Kaitlin Hao '21 explores how three historical vessels bring us into the worlds that created them, along with their legacies and their sense of the world yet to come.
First, she will discuss a ritual food vessel made in China in the 11th or 10 century BCE. She will then turn to a stoneware storage jar by David Drake, also known as Dave the Potter, an enslaved Black man in antebellum South Carolina. And finally, she will take a...
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: White/Hammons/Marshall
Both David Hammons and Kerry James Marshall consider their time as students of Charles White at the Otis Art Institute in the 1960s and '70s as an important experience for them as young Black men and artists.
On this tour coinciding with Juneteenth, Maeve Miller '22 and Cecilia Zhou '22 will talk about a work by each of these artists: White's linocut print of blues icon Bessie Smith (1950); Hammons's Untitled [Body Print] (1974), which he made partly by...
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In her tour, Maeve Miller '22 will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art. She will examine the woodcut Magician (1956), which Erich Heckel made in Germany more than 40 years after the heyday of his involvement with the Expressionist art movement; the painting Ventriloquist (1952), which Jacob Lawrence made in Harlem, New York, as part of his Performance Series; and a woodblock print...
Virtual Student Guide Tour: Making Faces, with Cecilia Zhou
Student Guide Cecilia Zhou's art-inspired makeup tutorials have appeared on the social media channels of the Harvard Art Museums and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this tour, she will spend time with three paintings that inspired her: the 20th-century Head of a Woman by Russian Expressionist Alexei von Jawlensky, the 3rd-century Egyptian ...
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Spring Bird Walk
Peters Hill Gate, Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Join three experienced birders for a 90-minute walk suitable for beginners and experienced birders alike. Meet at the Peters Hill Gate for this walk in the landscape to see Arboretum birds. Space is limited to 30 and the group will be divided into three sections. COVID-19 guidelines of masks and social distancing will be required. Bring binoculars if you have them.
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A Season of Lilacs at the Arnold Arboretum
Arnold Arboretum—Online
Lilacs come in a wide range of color, size, flower form, and leaf. Arnold Arboretum docent Chris McArdle will take you on a free, virtual tour of many of these varieties, by way of images from the actual plants in our landscape. From her long years of experience in the lilac collection, and as a docent, she will introduce you to many fascinating histories, anecdotes, as well as the people instrumental in bringing us these much-anticipated May bloomers. From their 17th century beginning in North America, up to some fabulous present-day cultivars, you will experience the breadth of our...
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Climate Change, with Sophia Mautz
Sophia Mautz '21 illuminates our unfolding climate crisis in her tour focused on three works of art: a 14th-century handscroll painting from Japan, Earthquake from the Legendary History of the Jin'o-ji; a photograph from 1978 by American artist Ana Mendieta, Untitled [filueta grass mound burnt with a cast iron hand, Iowa]; and ...
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Resetting the Table: A Virtual Talk and Tour with the Curators
Food Literacy Project—Online
The "Resetting the Table: Food and Our Changing Tastes" exhibition at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology explores food choices and eating habits in the United States, including the sometimes hidden but always important ways in which our tables are shaped by cultural, historical, political, and technological influences.
Join us on this special virtual talk and tour at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology with Joyce Chapli, guest curator and Harvard University James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History; Janis Sacco, Director...
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Art Talk Live: The Art of Extinction in Early Modern Europe
Climate change has brought renewed and urgent interest in the relationship between human behavior and the mass extinction of animal species and their habitats. Early modern Europeans, too, were preoccupied with extinction, and many works of art bear witness to their concerns. Focusing on Antonio Tempesta's print A Wolf Hunt, with a Dead Ram as Bait, this talk will examine the period's various notions of extinction, while also drawing connections with contemporary thinking on the subject in museums and elsewhere.
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Design by Decay, with Mei Tercek
Explore works that are shaped by decay and generated through destruction. This interactive tour looks closely at the beauty that remains in the wake of decay in the Thai sculpture The Standing Buddha (7th–8th century), the bronze Daphne (1930) by sculptor Renée Sintenis, and the painting Legno e Rosso 3 (1956) by Alberto Burri.
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: Red, Yellow, and Blue, with Adam Sella
In this tour, Harvard student, Adam Sella, explores the action of red, yellow, and blue in three works of art. For red, it's a panel from Mark Rothko's Harvard Murals (1962); for yellow, the painting A Nayika and Her Lover (c. 1660–70) by an unknown artist from India; and for blue, Pablo Picasso's Blue period painting Mother and Child (c. 1901). Taking our Forbes Pigment Collection as a springboard, the tour also looks at the material basis of these colors, their history, and their power to stir emotions.
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Members: Not on Display! Treasures of the Mineralogical & Geological Museum
Visitors to the Harvard Museum of Natural History are dazzled by the Mineral Gallery's beautiful specimens, yet the gallery displays only a fraction of the entire collection.
While each of the collection's 300,000+ specimens has great scientific value, a subset also has significant commercial value. Join Curator Raquel Alonso-Perez for a virtual behind the-scenes visit to view specimens that, for security reasons, are not typically on display. You'll see a rare opal in matrix from Mexico, tourmalines from the first pegmatitic discovery in the U.S., and crystalline gold, among...
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Virtual Student Guide Tour: The Museums, Revisited, with Kaitlin Hao
Harvard's Kaitlin Hao confronts the history of museum practice through a critical look at three works installed at the Harvard Art Museums: Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha (from Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, China), a Liberian (Mano) "chief's mask," and Nature Study by Louise Bourgeois.
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