 |  | This month is your last chance to catch the Seeing in Art and Medicine exhibition, on view through Saturday, December 30. And with just six weeks left to see Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade, you will also want to set aside time to take part in an upcoming exhibition tour or gallery talk with curator Sarah Laursen. Forgetting something? Don’t worry, this Spotlight Tour will uncover how people have been (mis)remembered through art.
As a special holiday celebration, we have a festive Harvard Art Museums at Night planned for Thursday, December 7, with loads of activities!
Speaking of holidays, please note which days the museums are closed in the month of December. |
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 | Fluxus artist Wolf Vostell created art that challenged human complacency toward war, genocide, and other catastrophic world events. Opening on January 20, 2024, the exhibition Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age Is Your Life presents Vostell’s prints, films, sculptures, editioned artworks, and performance ephemera, drawn primarily from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s collection. |
 | Be sure to plan your visit to view Seeing in Art and Medicine before the exhibition closes on Saturday, December 30! Join a related gallery talk this month with curator Jen Thum, who will share insights about the museums’ medical humanities program on which the exhibition is based.
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 | A festive evening is in store for you and your friends at this month’s Harvard Art Museums at Night on Thursday, December 7! With activities in the Materials Lab, a chance to win original works from the Harvard Ceramics Program, free limited-edition holiday cards from local printer Albertine Press, and much more, you won’t be short on holiday cheer. As always, advance registration is encouraged, but walk-in visitors are welcome.
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 | Murray Whyte of The Boston Globe gave a glowing review of Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade. He writes: “It sounds odd to say, given the context, but ‘Objects of Addiction’ is one of my favorite things: an exhibition that grapples with the past to illuminate the present, however painful that may be.” Be sure to experience this thought-provoking exhibition before it closes on January 14, 2024. |
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 | Join program assistant Shirley Hunt on Saturday, December 9 for a talk about the role of recorded music in Nam Jun Paik’s audiovisual work Electronic Opera #1. |
 | To commemorate International Day of Persons with Disabilities, witness a brief, one-hour movement installation by students on Sunday, December 3. ON DISPLAY HARVARD 2023 questions societal “norms” about disability and celebrates difference as an affirmation of our humanity. |
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| | |  WBUR is a media partner for our Harvard Art Museums at Night events.Images: Header and December At Night: Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Coming Soon: Wolf Vostell, German, TV Blur, 1966. Screenprint on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the Wolf Vostell Estate, 2022.289. © Wolf Vostell/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn. Music Meets Art: Photo: Shirley Hunt. On Display: Photo: (snobs._).
Support for Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade is provided by the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund; the Robert H. Ellsworth Bequest to the Harvard Art Museums; the Harvard Art Museums’ Leopold (Harvard M.B.A. ’64) and Jane Swergold Asian Art Exhibitions and Publications Fund and an additional gift from Leopold and Jane Swergold; the José Soriano Fund; the Anthony and Celeste Meier Exhibitions Fund; the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund; the Asian Art Discretionary Fund; the Chinese Art Discretionary Fund; and the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Additional support for this project is provided by the Dunhuang Foundation.
Support for Seeing in Art and Medicine is provided by the José Soriano Fund, the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund, and the Annemarie Henle Pope Special Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund and the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund. |
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