 |  | The Harvard Art Museums are bringing in 2023 with new exhibitions and a regularly updated calendar filled with gallery talks, exhibition tours, and other fun gatherings. Be sure to get your last look at Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment before the exhibition closes on January 15.
Why not bring a friend on your next visit? Check our January hours before you set the date!
We are excited to start a brand new year with you! |
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 | Make the most of the last weekend of the Dare to Know exhibition by joining a gallery talk devoted to the natural world on January 14 or taking a tour with curator Elizabeth Rudy on January 15! |
 | On January 7, take part in an in-depth discussion with graduate student Jordan Hallmark around Jean-Baptiste Chapuy’s print depicting a pivotal moment in the Haitian Revolution, on view in the Dare to Know exhibition. |
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 | At Night is back for 2023 to ring in the new year on Thursday, January 26. Leave behind the winter chill and hang out with friends for a night of art, fun, food, and more!
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| | Images: (Header) Nicolas Maréchal, French, Ursus maritimus (Polar bear), Drawing for an illustration to Ménagerie du Muséum d’histoire naturelle, ou Description et histoire des animaux (Menagerie of the Museum of Natural History, or Description and History of Animals), by Etienne de Lacépède (Paris: 1801). Black chalk, extensively stumped. The Horvitz Collection, Wilmington, Del., D-F-1456, TL42410.6. Dare to Look: Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, French, Muscles of the Back, plate 14 from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size), 1746. Color mezzotint. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1968, 1968-25-79n, TL42415.2. Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Print Revolution: Jean-Baptiste Chapuy, French, after J. L. Boquet, French, Vue de l’incendie de la ville du Cap Français, Arrivée le 21 juin 1793 (View of the Burning of the City of Cap Français on June 21, 1793), 1794. Etching printed in five colors. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Etampes et de la Photographie, RESERVE QB-201, TL42413.1. Winter Warmer: © Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Mediterranean Marvels: Oil lamp with sacrifice scene, Roman, 1st century. Terracotta. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, TL42482.24. Photo: © Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek.
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke Fund for Publications and Exhibitions, the Robert M. Light Print Department Fund, the Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Support Fund, the Catalogues and Exhibitions Fund for Pre-Twentieth-Century Art of the Fogg Museum, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The accompanying catalogue was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Funds, including the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund.
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