 |  | ReFrame is bringing hidden narratives to light and reorienting the museums’ collections around new types of questions. Angelica Kauffmann’s Young Girl Braiding Her Hair is one work in an installation focused on female printmakers. Does grouping these female artists in a gallery today risk reducing them to the same inferior social status they held in their own time? Or does it highlight their artistic virtuosity and perseverance navigating the male-dominated business of printmaking? Check out this work and others in the museums’ new ReFrame initiative.
Remember, reserved tickets are required for admission. |
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 | Can art inspire activism? In a review of our Devour the Land exhibition, Harvard Crimson writer Ebubechi J. Nwaubani suggests that the answer may lie in asking, “What’s next?” Catch the exhibition before it closes in January. |
 | To celebrate the spooky season, we’ve put together a group of eerily beautiful works from the Harvard Art Museums collections. |
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 | A spirited debate on what it means to live in a democracy animates three reproductions of an iconic portrait of George Washington. Read about this latest video projection work from internationally renowned artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, on view now at the museums. |
 | There’s still time to register for an online event on Tuesday, November 2 taking a closer look at a group of bold watercolors by Zelda Fitzgerald. |
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 | How can museums—themselves so often enmeshed with histories of slavery, colonization, and white supremacy—be mobilized for racial justice? Read this article about our April conference, Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade, with videos from the event. |
 | Hanneke Grootenboer, the 2021 Erasmus Lecturer, will consider how painting can be a form of thinking—for viewers in both the 17th century and today. She will deliver three online lectures related to art and thought in the Dutch Republic, on November 5, 12 and 19. |
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Don’t forget to take a look at our YouTube channel for recordings of online events you might have missed. |
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Image: (header) Angelica Kauffmann, Young Girl Braiding Her Hair, 1765, published October 1, 1780. Aquatint. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints, 2017.244.
Devour the Land is made possible in part by the generosity of the Terra Foundation for American Art and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Additional support for the project is provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Fund and the Rosenblatt Fund for Postwar American Art. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Modern and contemporary art programs at the Harvard Art Museums are made possible in part by generous support from the Emily Rauh Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art.
Krzysztof Wodiczko: Portrait is made possible by the Graham Gund Exhibition Fund, held jointly by the Harvard Art Museums and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. |
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