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January

In this painting, a bejeweled woman sits in front of a landscape scene with her chin propped against a manicured hand.

From everyone here at the Harvard Art Museums, we wish you and your family a happy and healthy new year!

A patterned wool cushion cover with embedded inscriptions.

EXHIBITION

Social Fabrics

Explore how textiles can tell a story about interactions between people of different backgrounds and religions, in the new exhibition Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs,opening January 22.

Three people stand in front of a large painting in an oval-shaped frame.

VIDEO

Open Doors

This year, it feels more fitting to focus on all that we’ve been able to do since we reopened in September—as well as some of the wonderful things to come in 2022. Check out this video we’ve put together with some of our favorite moments!

A photograph of a greenhouse with a reddish glow silhouettes of plants

EXHIBITION

Two Weekends Left

Just two weekends remain to see the special exhibition that raises awareness of environmental damage caused by military-related activities while also celebrating the activism sparked by photographic responses. Book your ticket to visit the museums and see Devour the Land today.

A photograph of a girl looking at a framed print on a wall in a gallery

EXHIBITION

States of Play Closing

On Sunday, January 2, we’ll bid farewell to the exhibition States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte. Don’t miss out on these compelling prints spanning more than three centuries.

A multicolored abstract image of geometric shapes.

ART TALK

Gaming in the Museums

Art museums are full of games hiding in plain sight. In this recorded Art Talk, you’ll discover the games lurking in the prints displayed in the exhibition States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte, as well as in the collections at large.

INTERVIEW

Political Landscapes

In this interview with Harvard Magazine, photography curator Makeda Best shares her insights on landscape photographers and photographers of war and protest.

The Harvard Art Museums will be closed on December 31 for New Year’s Eve and January 1 for New Year’s Day. We will also be closed January 18 through January 22 to conduct yearly maintenance and testing of our building at 32 Quincy Street.

Index

Virtual Events

Images: (header) Cushion cover with tiraz inscription, Egypt, early 9th century. Wool and linen: tapestry weave. Cleveland Museum of Art, J. H. Wade Fund, 1959.48, TL42343.6. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art. Social Fabrics: Cuff band with animals in interlocking scrolls, Byzantine, late 4th to early 5th century. Wool and linen, tapestry weave. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg, 2004.204. Open Doors: Photo courtesy of R. Leopoldina Torres. Two Weekends Left: Lucas Foglia, American, New Crop Varieties for Extreme Weather, Geneva Greenhouses, New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, New York, 2013. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Richard and Ronay Menschel Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2019.312. © Lucas Foglia; image courtesy of the artist. Gaming the Museum: Sol LeWitt, American, Complex Forms, 1989. Etching and aquatint on white, machine wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, M21803. © 2021 The LeWitt Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Devour the Land is made possible in part by the generosity of the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support for the project is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Fund and the Rosenblatt Fund for Postwar American Art. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.