Harvard Art Museums

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Performance 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall. László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Student Event 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Harvard students are invited to study for finals in a quiet space at the museums.

Tour 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Jade Xiao will explore how art accommodates the fleeting nature of time. Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Inkstone in a horseshoe shape (Bateiseki), from the series A Selection of Horses (Uma zukushi), 1822. Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel, 1933.4.1788.

Performance 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA Enjoy an afternoon of music in the light-filled Calderwood Courtyard and the elegant atmosphere of Adolphus Busch Hall. One of the works Jade Xiao will spotlight is The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream (1830) by Charles Bird King.

Student Event 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Harvard students are invited to study for finals in a quiet space at the museums. Lucia Moholy, Bauhaus Masters’ Housing, Dessau, 1925–1926: Detail of Writing Desk in Walter Gropius’s House, 1926, printed c. 1950. Modern gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius, BR50.140. ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Student Event 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Harvard students are invited to study for finals in a quiet space at the museums. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! Pony cap, 3rd century BCE. Bronze. From Torrs, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, X.FA 72. © National Museums Scotland.

Supporter Event 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Friends, Fellows, and Partners are invited to enjoy the exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages in a quiet setting while the museums are closed. Ippitsusai Bunchō 一筆斎文調, Daruma and Owl, Edo period, 18th century. Woodblock print; color on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel, 1933.4.2094

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join assistant curator Yan Yang for a talk about a sixth-century monk named Bodhidharma—a legendary icon in Buddhist art. Courtesy of Cartoon Saloon

Film 2:30 pm - 8:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for a daylong series of Irish animated films by Cartoon Saloon, offered in conjunction with the exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, Valeria Pesce, the Craigen W. Bowen Paper Conservation Fellow, will talk about how light affects paper and media. László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! Pony cap, 3rd century BCE. Bronze. From Torrs, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, X.FA 72. © National Museums Scotland.

Supporter Event 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Friends, Fellows, and Partners are invited to enjoy the exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages in a quiet setting while the museums are closed. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, Penley Knipe, the Philip and Lynn Straus Senior Conservator of Works on Paper and head of the Paper Lab, will talk about mending paper. Jacob Lawrence, American, The 1920s . . . The Migrants Cast Their Ballots, 1974. Screenprint. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Lorillard, Division of Loews Theatres, Inc., Transfer from Student Print Rental Program, M26664. © The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawren

Special Event 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on Thursday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! John Martin, The Bard, c. 1817. Oil on canvas, 127 × 101.6 cm. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

Performance 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Listen to lyrical medieval Welsh poetry, in both old Welsh and English, read by Harvard student Samuel Puopolo. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, associate paintings conservator Ellen Davis will talk about the use of cotton duck canvas. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch as a Pilgrim, c. 1730. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.123.

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Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Dig deeper into the timeless tale of Saint Roch and his faithful dog. Photo: Danni Hoshino