January at the Harvard Art Museums

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Opening This Month

Saturday, January 20

Presented in our University Research Gallery, Fernando Bryce’s The Book of Needs is a multipart work comprised of 81 ink-on-paper drawings that explores issues of immigration, refugeeism, cultural difference, racism, indigeneity, and more through the re-creation of 1950s articles from the journal Courier, published by UNESCO.
In our University Teaching Gallery, installations that support Harvard courses will also be on view: Rome: Eternal City and Looking Back: The Western Tradition in Retrospect.

Preview Screening: The Burning Child

Wednesday, January 31, 6–8:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

Harvard professor Joseph Leo Koerner will be on-hand to answer questions from the audience after this exclusive test screening. Koerner’s film—still in progress—is the culmination of Harvard’s Vienna Project, a scholarly and artistic collaboration exploring that city at the turn of the last century. More

Mark Your Calendar: Opening Celebration for Inventur—Art in Germany, 1943–55

Thursday, February 8, 5–9pm

The first exhibition of its kind, Inventur examines the highly charged artistic landscape in Germany from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. Join us to celebrate the exhibition’s opening with a lecture by artist Konrad Klapheck, followed by a reception. Museum galleries will remain open until 9pm. More

Closing Soon: The Art of Drawing in the Early Dutch Golden Age, 1590–1630

Open through Saturday, January 14

Just two days left to see our special installation of works from the esteemed collection of Maida and George Abrams. More

Visitor Information

Open daily, 10am–5pm
We will be closed Monday, January 15, in observance of Martin Luther King Day.
Plan your visit

In the Press

Makeda Best leads Culture Type’s list of “Curators to Watch” in 2018.
Our upcoming Inventur exhibition is featured in Apollo Magazine’s highlights of 2018.

Highlights from Index

Five monumental Chinese paintings have just returned to the museums after spending three years undergoing specialized conservation treatment in Japan. More
Over the course of a year, our curators undertook a comprehensive assessment of the collections in their respective divisions, leading to a deeper understanding of the museums’ holdings. More

Image: (header) Claude Monet, Charing Cross Bridge: Fog on the Thames, 1903. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Henry Lyman, 1979.329.

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