 | Dig deep into the roots of hip-hop in an interactive workshop on Sunday, November 5, led by Jazzmyn RED, local songwriter and U.S. ambassador for hip-hop. Free admission, but registration is required and is now open. You’ll also be able to sign up for the next workshop on November 12, if you wish.
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 | Writer Malcom Gay of The Boston Globe recently included the Harvard Art Museums in a list of five area museums whose new acquisitions broaden the scope of visual arts. He highlights Mildred Thompson’s Zylo-Probe and discusses the sculpture with Chassidy Winestock, a graduate student intern in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art. Make sure to view the sculpture the next time you visit!
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 | Join us in the Calderwood Courtyard on Thursday, November 16 for a pop-up concert of Renaissance music, performed by the student group Harvard Viol Consort. |
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 | On Sunday, November 12, take part in a hands-on workshop focused on the color of skin in art and medicine, led by Harvard medical student and artist William Shen. The workshop is held in conjunction with the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine. Registration opens Thursday, November 2! |
 | Stop by for a gallery talk on Thursday, November 2 led by curatorial fellow Jackson Davidow, who will explore why photographer Dennis Feldman was preoccupied with the role of television in American life during the 1960s and 1970s. |
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Images: Hip-Hop and You Don’t Stop: Photo: All Rhymes Photography. Breaking Boundaries: Mildred Thompson, American, Zylo-Probe, c. 1975. Found wood. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Sophocles N. Zoullas and Silvia Zoullas and the Rosenblatt Fund for Post-War American Art, 2021.383. © The Estate of Mildred Thompson. Courtesy of Galerie Lelong & Co., New York. Dissecting Portrait Colors: Annette Lemieux, American, Available Portrait Colors, 1990. Oil on canvas. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Howard Johnson, Harvard College ’81, in honor of his friend Richard Milazzo, 2012.274. © Annette Lemieux.
Support for Objects of Addiction: Opium, Empire, and the Chinese Art Trade is provided by the Alexander S., Robert L., and Bruce A. Beal Exhibition Fund; the Robert H. Ellsworth Bequest to the Harvard Art Museums; the Harvard Art Museums’ Leopold (Harvard M.B.A. ’64) and Jane Swergold Asian Art Exhibitions and Publications Fund and an additional gift from Leopold and Jane Swergold; the José Soriano Fund; the Anthony and Celeste Meier Exhibitions Fund; the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund; the Asian Art Discretionary Fund; the Chinese Art Discretionary Fund; and the Rabb Family Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund. Additional support for this project is provided by the Dunhuang Foundation.
Support for Seeing in Art and Medicine is provided by the José Soriano Fund, the Gurel Student Exhibition Fund, and the Annemarie Henle Pope Special Exhibitions Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund and the Richard L. Menschel Endowment Fund.
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