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July

In a museum gallery, two people look down at a glass case with various antique scientific equipment. On the black wall behind the case are numerous framed photograms.

This month, the Harvard Art Museums say farewell to two knockout exhibitions, Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities and White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph. Both exhibitions close July 31, so make your plan to visit before the month is up! While you’re here, make your way up to the Lightbox Gallery for the interactive installation Processing the Page: Computer Vision and Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks, on view beginning July 5.

Don’t forget that we have another festive, free Harvard Art Museums at Night event planned in July (and it’s not too late to join us on June 30!). Stay up to date on all the exciting events happening this month by checking our calendar!

Three sculptures sit on a tiered platform. One appears to be a jumble of dark clay; another is a partially obscured female figure wearing a translucent colorful dress, one leg exposed; and a third sculpture appears to be comprised of white molds resembling pedestals.

INSTALLATION

Disrupting the View

Opening July 1, experience the Harvard Art Museums’ historical collections through fresh eyes in a one-of-a-kind installation by contemporary American sculptor Arlene Shechet.

An open sketchbook depicting a colorful drawing of a city-scape.

INSTALLATION

The sketchbook is a space for material experimentation, a record of visual thinking, a portable studio, and an art object all on its own. An interactive installation in the Lightbox Gallery features German artist Otto Piene’s vivid and insightful sketchbooks, created over seven decades: Processing the Page: Computer Vision and Otto Piene’s Sketchbooks, on view from July 5 to 31.

A courtyard filled with visitors chatting over drinks at high-top tables.

AT NIGHT

Art By Night

Lamplighter Brewing Co. is June’s featured local vendor, and on Thursday, June 30, they’ll be serving up four varieties of delicious beers to keep you well refreshed! Our July edition of the popular At Night event series is coming up on Thursday, July 28. All At Night events are filled with art, fun, food, and ever-changing local vendors.

A tall ceramic stand with a thick base and a glass top.

EXHIBITIONS

Last Look

Spend a day at the Harvard Art Museums and catch the last few weeks of White Shadows: Anneliese Hager and the Camera-less Photograph and Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives: Creative Communities, on view through July 31.

VIDEO

Hager’s Inspired Art

In this short video, Anneliese Hager’s daughter, Waltrud Kupsch, discusses her mother’s life and work, including the inspiration Hager found in nature and the challenges of returning to her artistic practice after World War II. For more on Hager, visit our YouTube channel.

TOUR

Touring Brandywine

Join us on Sunday, July 10 for an introduction and guided look at the exhibition Prints from the Brandywine Workshop and Archives, with exhibition curator Elizabeth Rudy.

Index

Events

Images: Header, Art By Night: © Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Disrupting the View: © Arlene Shechet. Image courtesy of the artist. High-Tech Sketch: Otto Piene, Untitled (view of New York City “from the Colony Club,”), from Sketchbook: Sun Eureka Berlin/“Mies Berlin”/Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie/John Cage/Groton, 2012. Colored marker on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Elizabeth Goldring Piene, 2019.68.60. © Otto Piene Estate. Last Look: Stanley Whitney, American, Untitled #1 (detail), 1979. Screenprint. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2018.33.57. © Stanley Whitney. Hager’s Inspired Art: Anneliese Hager, German, Untitled (detail), c. 1947–49. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the German Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, 2018.319. © Estate of Anneliese Hager. Touring Brandywine: Odili Donald Odita, American, Cut (detail), 2016. Offset lithograph on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, 2018.33.44. © Odili Donald Odita. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.