Three New Installations in Our Expanded Teaching Galleries
January 31–May 12, 2012 in at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum
485 Broadway, Cambridge MA

These installations are mounted in conjunction with Harvard University undergraduate courses and showcase selected objects from the Harvard Art Museums’ collections. These newly expanded galleries will help us to plan for larger spaces in our renovated facility at 32 Quincy St.

American Encounters: Art, Contact, and Conflict, 1560–1860
American Encounters, displaying works by John James Audubon, Theodor de Bry, John Singleton Copley, and Sarah Goodridge, explores the means and meanings of portraiture, the visual culture of scientific exploration, and the global circulation of commodities as reflected in the decorative arts.

Cold War Photography
Cold War Photography provides students with an opportunity to study firsthand important photographs of the Cold War era. The installation closely examines American photography, and in particular the practices of such artists as Diane Arbus, Roy DeCarava, Robert Frank, and Garry Winogrand.

The Ideal of the Everyday in Greek Art
The seminar that accompanies this installation presents Greek painted pottery as a direct window onto ancient Greek society and how this society visually constructed its ideal self.