Mark Your Calendar: The Bauhaus and Harvard

February 8–July 28
Special Exhibitions Gallery

Despite officially operating for just 14 years, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. Our exhibition The Bauhaus and Harvard, timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, features rarely seen student exercises, iconic design objects, photographs, textiles, typography, paintings, and archival materials. More

Opening Soon: Displaying Latin America

January 26–May 12
University Teaching Gallery

This exhibition explores the vibrant cosmopolitan architecture culture in Latin America during the interwar period, using original materials from collections at Harvard. More

Now On View

On view in the University Collections Gallery on Level 2, Clay—Modeling African Design highlights artistic innovation and creativity in Africa as seen primarily through the traditions of ceramic arts from across the continent and over its long history. 

Visiting artist Jace Clayton’s installation in our Lightbox Gallery on Level 5, Jace Clayton, The Great Salt, brings a fresh perspective to a work of colonial silver used throughout the 20th century in Harvard inauguration ceremonies.

In the Press

According to Arch Daily, “Renzo Piano’s renovation of the Harvard Art Museums is, years on, a quiet, neighborly triumph.”

A new book explores the identity of the model for Degas’s famous Little Dancer Aged Fourteen; bronze casts of the sculpture can be found locally at the Harvard Art Museums, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Clark Art Institute. More