Topography of Loss: A Symposium on Doris Salcedo

Friday, March 3, 10am–5pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

This two-day symposium brings together scholars to discuss Doris Salcedo’s work within the contexts of political science, human rights, religion, philosophy and literature, and art history. Organized around three panels on Friday, March 3, and featuring a sold-out keynote address by Judith Butler on Thursday, March 2, the symposium seeks to prompt wider conversation about the issues that are underscored in the exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning and in Salcedo’s work as a whole. More

Midday Organ Recitals

Adolphus Busch Hall, 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge

Join us for lunch-hour recitals performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ. Audience members are invited to lunch quietly while listening.
Thursday, March 2: Angela Kraft Cross
Thursday, March 9: Harvard Organ Society
Thursday, March 23: Janet Yieh
Thursday, March 30: Tate Addis

An Afternoon with Filmmaker Deborah Stratman

Saturday, March 4, 2–3:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

Join us for a screening of seven short films by Chicago-based artist and filmmaker Deborah Stratman. The artist will introduce her films and will participate in a brief conversation and Q&A with Ernst Karel, lab manager of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, at the end of the program. More

Harvard Treasures Tour: Catching the Wave: Photographs of the Women’s Movement, at the Schlesinger Library

Monday, March 6, 12–1pm
Radcliffe Yard, 3 James Street, Cambridge

Research librarian Diana Carey and photo archivist Joanne Donovan will lead this exclusive members tour of the library’s photography exhibition Catching the Wave: Photographs of the Women’s Movement. If you’re not yet a member, you can join here. More

First 100 Days: Gallery Talks

Tuesday, March 7: Easel Painting and Radical Politics in Weimar Germany
Thursday, March 9: Reclusion as Resistance—Japanese Ink Painting from the Feinberg Collection
Tuesday, March 14: Race and Citizenship
Saturday, March 25: Social Realism, Social Action
Tuesday, March 28: A New Leader in Times of Uncertainty

Modern Art in Technicolor: Art, Film, and American Identity

Thursday, March 9, 6–8pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

This series examines the construction of American identity by pairing artworks from the museums’ collections with films. Following a screening of John Huston’s Moby Dick, viewers are invited to view Jackson Pollock’s No. 2 in Gallery 1200, Level 1. More

Friday, March 10, 2–2:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

Members Tour

Wednesday, March 15, 5:30–6:30pm

Members are invited to discover our collections during a special curator-led tour through select galleries, held outside the museums’ public hours. If you’re not yet a member, you can join here. More

Dr. Hendricks at Harvard

Tuesday, March 21, 6–7:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

Join us for an artist talk by painter Barkley Hendricks, followed by a discussion with Harvard professor Matt Saunders and students from his painting class. More

On Not Being At Home, Part 3: The Colors of the Mountain

During the run of the exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, the Harvard Film Archive, and the Harvard Art Museums are collaborating on a three-part film series that looks at the conditions behind displacement and forced migration, in Latin America in particular. The screening of The Colors of the Mountain, the final film in this series, will be followed by a Q&A with director Carlos César Arbeláez. More

New Digs and Discoveries at Sardis in Turkey

Wednesday, March 22, 6–7:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level
Sardis Biennial Lecture

The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in western Turkey continues to make exciting and unexpected discoveries. Director Nicholas Cahill, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, will present recent results from the expedition. More

The Eagle Huntress

Thursday, March 23, 6–7:30pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level

This family-friendly documentary follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl who lives in the Altai Mountains in Mongolia, as she trains to become the first female in 12 generations of her Kazakh family to become an eagle hunter. The film traces her rise to the pinnacle of this centuries-old tradition. More

Wednesday, March 29, 6–7pm
Menschel Hall, Lower Level
Ilse and Leo Mildenberg Memorial Lecture

Paolo Visonà, associate professor at the University of Kentucky at Lexington, will discuss how coins provide essential information on the history and the economy of Carthage. Visonà will further reveal how these findings underscore the city’s connectivity with other Punic centers and its relations with its Mediterranean neighbors and rivals, particularly Cyrene, Syracuse, and Rome. More

Highlights from Index

The Calderwood Courtyard’s hanging sculpture Triangle Constellation, by Carlos Amorales, recently needed a dusting. Watch as a crew carefully cleans the work from an aerial lift. More
The Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg Collection is an extraordinary collection of more than 300 works that spans the breadth of Edo period painting in Japan. Every six months, a new selection of works from the collection is installed; the latest is a selection of Japanese Nanga painting. More

The private artist interview is a regular practice at the museums, with conservators recording their conversations with living artists whose works are in our collections. Doris Salcedo’s interview last November, just a few days before the opening of the special exhibition Doris Salcedo: The Materiality of Mourning, focused on her work A Flor de Piel. More