 |  | It's midterm season! And if that's not scary enough, Halloween is this weekend. Eek! In the spirit of the season, HAM is delighted to share some treats with you, including the return of our beloved Student Print Rental Program! Read on for a rundown of our bewitching virtual programs and other spooktacular news.
While his costume is not head-to-toe azure like Lowell House's Blue Man, we think our Young Man in a Blue Coat is serving quite the lewk. In other blue news, the most famous blue-clad figure in art history, Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy, served as inspiration for the recently commissioned painting A Portrait of a Young Gentleman, by Kehinde Wiley. Although this work is on view at the Huntington Art Museum, you can see another of Wiley's portraits here at HAM, on view in the first floor galleries. |
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 | art talk live Zelda Fitzgerald, Girl Mystary Tuesday, November 2
12:30-1PM ET Glimpse into the vivid imagination of a famous socialite and artist. |
 | lecture Food for Thought: Still Life as a Mode of Contemplation Friday, November 5
4-5:30PM ET Consider how painting can be a form of thinking. |
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Student Print Rental News! The Student Print Rental will be held on Monday, November 8 and Monday, November 15th from 10AM – 5PM (last entry each day will be 4PM). In consideration of the shortened rental period the fee is waived this academic year. Only students living in Harvard University properties, Harvard College Houses, and freshman dorms are eligible. Details regarding the sign-up process will be shared in a special edition newsletter next week! Looking for a creative outlet? Following the successful release of Coloring Ancient Egypt last year, we're excited to introduce the next in our series of activity books, Coloring German Expressionism! Halloween is this weekend! Check out the ghoulish works in our collections for some macabre inspiration. __________________________________________________
From Our Friends...
Today is the last day to apply for the Harvard OCS Arts & Museums January Internship Program. Check out this year's opportunities in the arts, including five at HAM!
The Radcliffe Institute invites you to attend a virtual conversation to discuss the hurdles facing women candidates in politics and public life. You can register for the event here, and be sure to check out the exhibition Elect/Ability: Pride, Prejudice, and the Female Candidate, on view at Radcliffe now.
Feeling a bit witchy this Halloween? Visit the Peabody Essex Museum's special exhibition The Salem Witch Trials: Reckoning and Reclaiming to learn more about the factors that fueled the crisis, and explore creative responses by contemporary artists with ancestral links to the infamous trials.
Or perhaps you're feeling fishy? Check out two mermaid museums that opened last year. The Mermaid Museum and the International Mermaid Museum both celebrate the history and mythology of these aquatic creatures.
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Image (Header): Aqa Riza (Riza ‘Abbasi), Young Man in a Blue Cloak, c. 1587. Ink, color and gold on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Sarah C. Sears Collection, 1936.27. |
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