| | We are in the final weeks of Devour the Land, and we wanted to remind you that the exhibition catalogue is also available! It features interviews with prominent contemporary artists working in the landscape photography tradition. Also, look out for a book giveaway on our Instagram.
Remember, the Harvard Art Museums are free to everyone on Sundays and reservations are required for all visits. When you come by, tell us what you think on social channels using #HarvardArtMuseums. |
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| PANEL On December 1, a prominent panel, featuring ProPublica’s environmental reporter Abrahm Lustgarten and co-directors of Costs of War, Neta C. Crawford and Catherine Lutz, gather to dissect the impact of militarism on the landscape. This event, which is free and open to everyone, will be led byMakeda Best, curator of Devour the Land. |
| NEW ON VIEW Starting on Saturday, December 4, enjoy a newly renovated gallery of Japanese paintings, with works by Okuhara Seiko, Kano Sansetsu, and Okutani Shūseki, with a wide range of painting formats from the early modern period. |
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| ARTIST PANEL On December 8, curator Elizabeth Rudy and conservator Christina Taylor will lead a dynamic conversation about printmaking with a group of Boston-area printmakers. |
| FILM On December 1, the Harvard Art Museums are proud to partner with Visual AIDS for Day With(out) Art 2021 by presenting ENDURING CARE, a video program highlighting strategies of community care within the HIV epidemic. |
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| ART EXCHANGE Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin is one of the most popular paintings on view at the Harvard Art Museums, so it’s no surprise that it is one of the works featured in Imagine Van Gogh, the immersive experience of Van Gogh’s art that opens this month at the SoWa Power Station in Boston. A 15% discount (password: IVGHarvard) is open to Harvard Art Museums newsletter subscribers! This offer ends December 2. |
| BOOK GIVEAWAY The catalogue accompanying the exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 presents a lively range of voices at the intersection of art, environmentalism, militarism, photography, and politics. Keep an eye on our Instagram account to find out how you can win a copy. |
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| ART STUDY CENTER SEMINAR On Friday, December 10, artist Hong Chun Zhang will discuss her recent work and how she reimagines the world around her as enveloped in hair. This online Art Study Center Seminar is free and open to everyone. Registration is required. |
| INTERVIEW Nina Berman—a documentary photographer, filmmaker, author, and educator—is one of the artists whose work is in the Devour the Land exhibition. In this interview with curator Makeda Best, Berman considers the question of whether photography can be used as a means of accountability. |
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| On Monday, December 6, the Association for Asian Studies New England Regional Conference will feature a talk by Sarah Laursen, the museums’ Alan J. Dworsky Associate Curator of Chinese Art, titled Reframing Tianlongshan: Facing the Past and Looking Ahead. The conference will be held on Zoom and is open to everyone. |
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Images: (header) Book cover photo: Zak Jensen. Paying the Price of War: Alex Webb, American, Mine shaft on northside of Treece (Kansas) filled with water and garbage, 2012. Archival chromogenic print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2020.165. © Alex Webb. Photo: Courtesy Robert Klein Gallery. A Study in Hair: Hong Chun Zhang, Chinese, Take Out #2, from the series Hairy Objects, 2016. Chinese ink and watercolor on rice paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Christina Marcove, 2021.42. © Hong Chun Zhang.
Devour the Land is made possible in part by the generosity of the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support for the project is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Fund and the Rosenblatt Fund for Postwar American Art. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art. |
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