 |  | With last week's snowfall, things are definitely starting to feel like winter, or should we say fuyu, Japanese for winter and the title of the painting above by Kumi Sugai. Come see this beautiful work for yourself - it's on view.
And while you're here, stick around for some amazing programs! It's a new year and a new semester with lots to do at the Harvard Art Museums! |
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 | gallery talk Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage Thursday, January 26
12:30-1PM Watch staff as they activate this experimental device from 1930. |
 | harvard art museums At Night Thursday, January 26
5-9PM Celebrate a new semester with an evening of art, fun, food, and more! |
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 | m/lab workshop Shadows, Illusions, and Biases of the Mind Friday, February 10
2-4:30PM Learn how to draw realistic portraits by defying your brain’s rules of perception. (Open to Harvard students only!) |
 | Special event A Conversation with Pao Houa Her Friday, February 24
2-4:30PM Join the Student Board for an intimate student-exclusive conversation with visual artist, Pao Houa Her. (Open to Harvard students only!) |
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From Our Friends...
On January 24, join the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University for a virtual conversation with Angélique Kidjo and Vijay Iyer on art, activism, and climate change.
Applications are open for two student internship opportunities with Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece in collaboration with museums in Athens. Learn more about the Museum of Cycladic Art Internship in Athens here. Info on the Museum of Philhellenism Summer Internship is here.
As you traveled near or far over winter recess, did you think about how one would portray movement in art? Artist Walead Beshty has! In this video, Beshty discusses his vision and process for capturing meaning of an object's movement from one place to another. You can see more of Beshty's work featured in the 2008 Whitney Biennial here. |
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Image (Header): Kumi Sugai 菅井汲, Japanese, Fuyu, 1960. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Samuel M. Kootz, 1972.2 © Kumi Sugaï / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Image (Shadows, Illusions, and Biases of the Mind): Odilon Redon, French, The Eye, Like a Strange Balloon Moves Towards Infinity, 1882. Lithograph. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Philip Hofer, M4250. |
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