Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning
This exhibition features works by Salcedo, who is known for sculptures and public installations that honor, acknowledge, and mourn individuals lost to civil violence. The accompanying catalogue is now available in our shop.
In December, related programming includes gallery talks in English and Spanish, as well as a screening of Doris Salcedo’s Public Works. Check our calendar for details. Further information about works in the exhibition is now available in a bilingual digital tool.
A special talk on December 13, On Curating: Displacement, looks at connections between Embodied Absence: Chilean Art of the 1970s Now, on view at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, and our Materiality of Mourning exhibition. Registration required.
A video recording of the opening celebration discussion between Salcedo, Harvard professor Elaine Scarry, and curator Mary Schneider Enriquez is now available online. Watch
Lightbox Gallery Screening: COMPULSIVE PRACTICE
Thursday, December 1, 10am–5pm
Level 5
To recognize this year’s Day Without Art, the organization Visual AIDS will present COMPULSIVE PRACTICE in the Lightbox Gallery. The hour-long video compilation will screen on loop throughout the day. More
#BostonInstaSwap
Sixteen Boston-area cultural organizations will come together on Instagram on December 1, swapping accounts for the day and making connections from Boston to Salem. Join us on our Instagram for an exploration of the USS Constitution. Follow all participating museums at #BostonInstaSwap and #MuseumInstaSwap.
Modern Art in Technicolor: Art, Film, and American Identity
Friday, December 2, 2–3:45pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level
This series examines the construction of American identity by pairing artworks from the museums’ collections with films. Today’s film: Samuel Fuller’s Shock Corridor (1963). Before the screening, view Philip Guston’s The Three (in Gallery 1330, Level 1). More
VALIE EXPORT: Medial Imaginations
Wednesday, December 7, 6–7:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level
Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT, a pioneer in conceptual media art, performance, and film, presents this year’s Busch-Reisinger Museum lecture. Free admission. More
Winter Members Celebration
Members and their guests are invited to enjoy hot beverages, sweet treats, and conversation in the Calderwood Courtyard, as we celebrate the holiday season. A double discount (20%) will also be given in the shop. Registration required. More
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Final Month to See Current University Gallery Installations
Through January 8, 2017
Level 3
Our University Galleries are programmed in consultation with Harvard faculty to support their coursework and are also a site for curatorial experimentation. There are three thematic installations currently on view:
Folding, Refraction, Touch: Modern and Contemporary Art in Dialogue with Wolfgang Tillmans presents a major recent acquisition by Tillmans and objects by other artists whose works resonate with Tillmans’s interest in surface, light, and the body.
Vision and Justice: The Art of Citizenship examines the contested relationship between art, justice, and African American culture from the 19th through the 21st century in the United States.
Modern Art and Modernity explores defining moments in the development of modern European and American art from the 18th through the 20th century.
Shop
Open to the public daily, 10am–5pm
This holiday season, visit the Harvard Art Museums’ shop. Not only do we carry unique gifts that are like works of art themselves, but proceeds support our public programming.
Read more in Index about our book recommendations for this season.
Highlights from Index
Contemporary German artist Wolfgang Tillmans shared insights about the creation of his 19-part installation Folding, Refraction, Touch—Installation for the Busch-Reisinger Museum (2013), now on view at the Harvard Art Museums. More
As the 2016 fiscal year concluded, leaders of our facilities team were pleased to report a significant savings in energy usage and utilities costs, down about 30 percent from the previous year. More
Visitor Information
Open daily, 10am–5pm
Closed major holidays
Note special holiday hours: December 24, closing at 1pm; December 25, closed all day; December 31, closing at 3pm; January 1, closed all day.
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Also This Month
Gallery Talks
Join our experts for regular gallery talks. Upcoming topics include Max Pechstein’s Stained Glass Window, Interactive Data Visualization in the Lightbox Gallery, and Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage. Check our calendar for the full lineup.
Art Study Center
Art Study Center Open Hours will be held on Monday, December 5, 12, and 19, from 1–4pm. See works of art related to exhibitions, programs, or current staff research; or request a favorite that is not currently on view. Check our calendar for details.
Materials Lab
A workshop on Saturday, December 10 will explore the many ways artists use carbon in art, in conjunction with our exhibition featuring works by Wolfgang Tillmans. Registration required.
Image credits:
Header image: Installation view of two untitled works in Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning. © Doris Salcedo; Installation view of Thou-less (detail) and untitled chair works in Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning. © Doris Salcedo; University Gallery installations: Benedict Fernandez, Memorial to Martin Luther King, Jr., Central Park, New York, 1968. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Beinecke Fund, 2.2002.745.
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