Amplify your museums experience this month with four free admission days. This weekend, ARTS FIRST fills the museums with music. Later in the month, you can meet Prince ShÅtoku and get his inside story.
This month we’re throwing open the doors to celebrate ARTS FIRST, Art Museum Day and International Museum Day, Harvard Class Day, and Harvard Commencement.
Remember: we’re always free to all students, Cambridge residents, youth under 18, and many more.
Displayed alongside more than 70 objects that were discovered inside the sculpture in the 1930s, Prince ShÅtoku at Age Two reignites an 800-year-old mystery.
Members tours provide access to the galleries outside of our regular hours.
Get some fresh air—and fresh perspectives—on a walking tour of the Harvard Graduate Center.
Tight on time? Stop in for a half-hour gallery talk.
“Matisse is just my dude. He’s a very joyful painter.”
—Museum attendant Maggie Cedarstom shares her favorite painting with The Improper Bostonian
Otto Piene: “I did not even have a toothbrush, but I always had my sketchpad and a box of watercolors.”
—Artforum reports on a recent gift of the artist’s sketchbooks
“Bauhaus was the art school in Germany that created the look of the twentieth century. We just live in it.”
—Open Source host Christopher Lydon discusses the Bauhaus with Sebastian Smee, Tamar Avishai, Peter Chermayeff, and Ann Beha
The “Time is Now” for Teaching About Art
With Help from Students, Print Rental Program Adds New Works
The Big Picture: Kara Walker’s U.S.A Idioms
A Spotlight on Early Chinese Jades
What’s On
Saturday, May 4 | 1–5pm
Sunday, May 5 | 2–4pm
ARTS FIRST: Fancy Moves–Make Paper Dance in the Materials Lab!
Sunday, May 5 | 4–4:30pm
RAMP IT UP: Bauhaus for the 21st Century
Sunday, May 5 | 5–5:30pm
RAMP IT UP: Bauhaus for the 21st Century
Tuesday, May 7 | 12:30–1pm
Gallery Talk: Metal Detection
Wednesday, May 8 | 3:30–4:30pm
Tour: The Architectural History of the Harvard Art Museums
Thursday, May 9 | 12:30–1pm
Gallery Talk: Poetry, Painting, and the Plastic Arts
Saturday, May 11 | 10:30–11:30am
Walking Tour: Harvard Graduate Center
Tuesday, May 14 | 12:30–1pm
Gallery Talk: Kara Walker’s U.S.A. Idioms
Wednesday, May 15 | 9–10am
Members Tour
Thursday, May 16 | 12:30–1pm
Gallery Talk: Happy Birthday, Walter Gropius
Saturday, May 18 | 10am–5pm
Free Admission Day for Art Museum Day and International Museum Day
Tuesday, May 21 | 12:30–1pm
Gallery Talk: Jade in the Lab
Tuesday, May 21 | 1–4pm
Materials Lab Workshop: Egyptian Blue
Tuesday, May 28 | 4:15–5:30
Lecture: Prince ShÅtoku: The Secrets Within
Wednesday, May 29 | 10am–5pm
Free Admission Day for Harvard Class Day
Wednesday, May 29 | 3:30–4:30pm
Tour: The Bauhaus and Harvard
Thursday, May 30 | 10am–5pm
Free Admission Day for Harvard Commencement
