 | November 5
5:30-7pm Join us for this year’s Curatorial Innovations Lecture with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The XXII Triennale di Milano presented the exhibition Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, which highlighted the concept of “restorative design,” plotting its role in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world and in designing reparations, when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. In this talk, Antonelli will take stock of the experience, casting the exhibition against the turbulent geopolitical background of the past year, describing which of its ambitions were met and which were not.
Free admission, but seating is limited. More info here. |
 | November 6
6-7:30pm In conjunction with the exhibition Winslow Homer: Eyewitness, New Orleans–based photographers Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun will discuss their decades-long, expansive documentary work that explores criminal and environmental justice, the history of slavery, and African American life and culture in the American South. They will be joined in conversation by Makeda Best, the Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, and John Stauffer, the Sumner R. and Marshall S. Kates Professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.
Free admission, but seating is limited. More info here. |
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 | November 12
6:30-8pm Join us for a film screening of After Migration: Calabria (2020) and discussion with Walé Oyéjidé, who produced and co-directed the film, and Harvard professor Teju Cole. Walé Oyéjidé, Esq., is a fashion designer whose work featured prominently in the Marvel studios blockbuster Black Panther and was recently included in the Gender Bending Fashion exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. In conversation with Teju Cole, the Gore Vidal Professor of the Practice of Creative Writing at Harvard, Oyéjidé will argue that migrants are owed more artful depictions of their cross-border experiences and that our creative pursuits should always be founded in fostering a more equitable society.
Free admission, but seating is limited. More info here. |
 | November 19
1-4pm Hovering somewhere between matter and light, color is key to our perception, navigation, and representation of the physical world. Guided by experts from across the Harvard Art Museums, this workshop will consider theoretical and practical issues related to the materiality of color through a mix of hands-on experimentation and close looking in the galleries. Among the questions that will be explored are: What accounts for the color palettes found in different media and over time? How are different pigments, dyes, colorants, and glazes produced and used? What types of materials and techniques went into a color’s creation? How can technical investigations help us understand how the effect of color is created?
$15 materials fee. Registration is required and space is limited. Materials fee must be paid to confirm registration. Please email am_register@harvard.edu, stop by the museums’ admissions desk, or call 617-495-1440 to register. |
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| Student Board Spotlight Meet your Harvard Art Museums Student Board Representatives!
Natalie Gale ‘21
Dunster House
 Originally from Portland, Maine, Natalie is a junior at the College studying History and Literature and Art, Film, and Visual Studies with a secondary degree in Economics. Natalie is passionate about issues of representation and accessibility within the visual arts and works at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics as well as in the Division of European and American Art at the Harvard Art Museums. Natalie is excited for another great year representing Dunster House on the Student Board! Justin Wei ‘21
Dunster House
Zach Fraley ‘21
Eliot House
Zach is a current junior in Eliot House where he studies Economics with a secondary in History of Art and Architecture. Originally from northwest Indiana, Zach enjoys his time on Harvard’s campus by exploring the different connections to the RMS Titanic and other ocean liners, which are great passions of his. He also enjoys listening to opera, studying monetary policy, and eating a multitude of cuisines!
Be on the lookout for more Student Board Spotlights in future issues of the Harvard Art Museums Student Newsletter.
__________________________________________________ Dragon's Blood. Tyrian Purple. Potter's Pink. You've seen these colorful stickers decorating water bottles and laptops all over campus. Have you ever wondered what they represent and their connection to the Harvard Art Museums? Check out this Index article to learn more about the historic Forbes Pigment Collection.
Calling all past and present Hollis and Holworthy residents! The Harvard Art Museums’ current exhibition Winslow Homer: Eyewitness explores how the artist’s work as a correspondent for Harper’s Weekly during the American Civil War shaped his later career as a painter and watercolorist. One of the works in the exhibition on loan to us from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Prisoners from the Front represents an actual scene from the war in which a Union officer captured several Confederate officers on June 21, 1864. The Union officer, Brigadier General Francis Channing Barlow is a Harvard alum (class of 1855). Through some investigative work, we determined that during his time at Harvard, he lived in Hollis and Holworthy. (He lived in Holworthy 9 in 1851; Hollis 16 in 1852; and Hollis 27 in 1853.) Make sure to stop by the exhibition to meet your residential predecessor before he heads back to New York.
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From Our Friends...
From the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies - 2019-20 Visiting Lecturer and inaugural Solomon Fellow Xavieria Simmons will present a public program on November 6 at The Annex. For her program, Simmons will create an ambitious 6 hour-long participatory presentation including talks, film screenings, performances, and group activities. More info on the November 6 program and private aftertalk on November 7 can be found here. |
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Image: Attributed to Kaikei, Left Hand of a Colossal Amida Buddha, First quarter 13th century. Wood with traces of lacquer, polychromy, and gilding. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Charles Bain Hoyt, 1931.9. |
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