Events for July 18, 2023

Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings. […]

Enjoy the last few days of From the Andes to the Caribbean at the Harvard Art Museums!   From the Andes to the Caribbean presents 26 paintings from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation—the premier U.S. private collection of Spanish colonial paintings from South America and the Caribbean—together with works from the Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition […]

Artwork by Leah Sobsey for “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss” exhibition, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Digitized cyanotype Artwork by Leah Sobsey for “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss” exhibition, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cyanotype on glass with 23K gold In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An […]

For children entering grades 3-5 Monday, July 17 through Friday, July 21; 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Visit exhibits featuring Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia to learn about daily life in the ancient world. Examples of activities include writing hieroglyphs, constructing mini pyramids; handling artifacts both real and through augmented reality, bejeweling a beard mask, and playing […]