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  • Pınar Öğrenci: Glück auf in Deutschland (Harvard Art Museum)

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Reflect on memory, labor, and belonging in this first major U.S. exhibition by Pınar Öğrenci. Glück auf in Deutschland marks the first major exhibition in the United States by Berlin-based artist and filmmaker Pınar Öğrenci (b. 1973). The artist’s work invites viewers to question what has been remembered or erased while imagining a future grounded in justice, equality, and collective healing and shaped by layered experiences of survival, resistance, and resilience. The exhibition includes Öğrenci’s 2024 film Glück auf in Deutschland (Good Luck…

  • The Way We Never Were: The American Professional Photographers Collection (Harvard Art Museum)

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    How did photography construct cultural memories of postwar America? Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role that professional photography played in shaping this familiar image. Photographers working on commission for private clients, businesses, and civic organizations produced portraits and promotional images that did more than document everyday life—they staged and refined it, helping define how Americans saw themselves and their nation.…

  • On Location: Drawing the Outdoors (Harvard Art Museum)

    Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Discover how an intimate and reflective relationship with nature can shape artistic vision. Meander through visions of the outdoors to discover how landscapes offered 19th-century European artists freedom, renewal, and rediscovery beyond the pressures of society. Placing the natural world at the center of artistic expression and featuring drawings by J. M. W. Turner, John Constable, Gustave Courbet, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot, Paul Cézanne, and Vincent van Gogh, among many others, On Location: Drawing the Outdoors includes approximately 140 sketches, watercolors, and…

  • Drawing Reflective, Translucent & Transparent Subjects

    Virtual Event

    Online Workshop Instructor: Artist and Educator Rachel Mirus Price: $35 members / $40 nonmembers The visual qualities of reflectivity, translucency, and transparency are incredibly compelling, but capturing them in your drawings in a satisfying way can be challenging. We’ll explore the visual clues that tell us what kind of material we’re looking at and approaches to rendering those qualities to good effect. We’ll discuss a range of examples and have plenty of time for drawing and individual feedback. A PDF…

    $35 – $40

  • Transhealth Fundraiser at Lovestruck Books and Cafe

    Lovestruck Books

    Join us at Lovestruck Books & Cafe for an evening of community, connection, and action in support of Transhealth, the only independent nonprofit healthcare organization in the U.S. solely devoted to serving trans and gender-diverse people. As access to gender-affirming care for trans youth faces growing threats, Transhealth is preparing to serve more young people and families who need a safe, affirming place to turn. We’ll gather in the cozy spirit of our bookstore for conversation, queer and trans literature,…

    $48.24

  • Harvard Book Store Welcomes Anthony Scaramucci

    The Brattle Theatre 40 Brattle St, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Harvard Book Store Welcomes Anthony Scaramucci presenting All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump Harvard Book Store welcomes Anthony Scaramucci—founder and managing partner of SkyBridge Capital, founder and chairman of SALT, and host of the podcast The Rest Is Politics: US—for a discussion of his new book, All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions Led to the Rise of Trump. More information and tickets available here. Brattle passes not accepted.

    $13.59 – $42.99

  • Live Blues & Roots Music Returns to Harvard Square: Wednesday Nights @ The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar

    Live Blues & Roots Music Returns to Harvard Square: Wednesday Nights @ The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar

    The Sea Hag Restaurant & Bar and The Barrett Anderson Band are excited to announce a new weekly series, Blues & Roots Wednesdays, bringing live music back home to historic Harvard Square. “Cambridge, our fair city, and I share deep roots, and I’m thrilled to find a new musical home at The Sea Hag,” says Massachusetts-based singer/guitarist, Barrett Anderson.  “Good music and good food are two of our most basic, fundamental needs,” he continues, “What great joy they give us.  I…

  • Gillian Daniels at Harvard Book Store

    Harvard Book Store 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, United States

    Harvard Book Store welcomes Gillian Daniels—poet and short fiction author whose works have appeared in Nightmare Magazine, Strange Horizons, and other publications—for a discussion of her debut novel, Jenny Will Eat You Now: A Meat Cute. She will be joined in conversation by Bracken MacLeod—acclaimed horror writer and the author of Closing Costs and Let Not Your Sorrow Die. About Jenny Will Eat You Now Sometimes you want to eat the ones you love…right? In this gorgeous horror-romance, river monster Jenny Greenteeth stalks a handsome academic through Boston after a chance…

  • Towa Bird at The Sinclair

    The Sinclair 52 Church St, Cambridge, Cambridge, MA, United States

    The Sinclair 52 Church St., Cambridge, MA, 02138 Get DirectionsOpens in new tab Event Overview $.25 from each ticket purchased will go to The Shout Syndicate, a Boston-based, volunteer-run fundraising effort who raises money to help fund youth-led arts programs at proven non-profit creative youth development organizations in Greater Boston. Housed at The Boston Foundation, The Shout Syndicate works in partnership with the Mayor's Office of Arts & Culture's creative plan, Boston Creates. https://www.theshoutsyndicate.com/

    $30