| | The events calendar is filling up fast at the Harvard Art Museums. In October, the Ho Family Student Guide Tours are happening online on Thursday evenings and Saturday mornings. A new family-friendly series—Creature Features—kicks off on Saturday, October 3, in which kids can search for magical creatures in the museums’ collections. While our doors remain closed, our public programs are free and open to everyone online. Be sure to check our calendar for new listings of Art Talks, Art Study Center Seminars, and so much more.
In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we look back to when Fernando Bryce visited the museums and talked about the lessons history can teach us. This reflection on the past can give us important perspective on our current moment.
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This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home: |
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| ART TALK Paintings conservator Cristina Morilla invites us to dive deep into Peter Paul Rubens’s oil sketch Hercules Strangling the Nemean Lion and the scientific methods that shed light on the artist’s masterful technique. |
| ARCHIVES Read why Fernando Bryce prefers to show history rather than explain it. The Peruvian-born artist calls himself a “para-historian” and has built a career around an extraordinary creative process he terms mimetic analysis. |
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| INDEX In these unsettling times, it sometimes feels we’ve fallen into a strangely upside down and backward world. Miriam Stewart, curator of the collection in the Division of European and American Art, shows us Peter Newell’s fantastic illustrations for Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. |
| EVENT Take your kids on an adventure in a new series from the Harvard Art Museums, in which families with children (ages 6 and older) can explore magical creatures across the collections. On Saturday, October 3, discover sirens and merpeople in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s A Sea-Spell and Edward Farrell’s Pair of Rutland Tazzas. |
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| EVENT Take a closer look at objects in the collections through our upcoming Student Guide Tours. On Thursday, October 1, Kaitlin Hao will focus on museum practice while discussing three works. On Saturday, October 3, Vlad Batagui will explore the relationship between art and the origins of creation. |
| event In the next Art Talk Live, Margaret Morgan Grasselli will tell us about Louis-Marin Bonnet, one of the most gifted and innovative producers of full-color prints in 18th-century France. She’ll focus on his efforts to conceal his identity to avoid getting caught for using a banned material in his work. |
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| EVENT There is still time to register for the upcoming Art Study Center Seminar on Friday, October 9, in which you can reconstruct the elaborate painting process of British artist Albert Moore. This Art Study Center Seminar is open and free to all. |
| EVENT Calling all archaeology lovers! The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis team is participating in 24hH: 24 Hours of Harvard, a collaborative effort to present 24 hours of virtual programming at Harvard on October 7. Log on at 11:30pm (EDT) to see the Sardis program. The event is part of the 2020 Worldwide Week at Harvard. |
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More programs! We recommend these upcoming events offered by our colleagues at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. |
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