Opening Celebration: The Bauhaus and Harvard


Join us to celebrate the opening of our latest special exhibition, The Bauhaus and Harvard, on view February 8–July 28, 2019.
 
The exhibition is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus, the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. The Bauhaus and Harvard presents 200 works drawn almost entirely from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s extensive Bauhaus collection—the largest of its kind outside Germany.
 
Following an introduction by exhibition curator Laura Muir, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum will present a lecture-performance titled “Fabric in space, fabric out of space.” Guests are invited to enjoy open galleries before and after the lecture as well as a festive reception in the Calderwood Courtyard.

Thursday, February 7, 2019

Open galleries: 5–9pm
Lecture: 6pm


 
 

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The opening celebration is free and open to the public, but tickets to the lecture are required. Tickets may be acquired in person, by phone, or online for a small fee through the Harvard Box Office, beginning at noon on Tuesday, January 29. Limit of two tickets per person. For more information, please visit the Harvard Box Office website.
 
The lecture will take place at 6pm, in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway; seating for the lecture will begin at 5:15pm.

Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

 

Support for the lecture is provided by the M. Victor Leventritt Fund, which was established through the generosity of the wife, children, and friends of the late M. Victor Leventritt, Harvard Class of 1935. The purpose of the fund is to present outstanding scholars of the history and theory of art to the Harvard and Greater Boston communities.

Support for the Bauhaus exhibition is provided by endowed funds, including the Daimler Curatorship of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Fund, the Charles L. Kuhn Endowment Fund, and the Care of the Busch-Reisinger Museum Collection Fund. In addition, 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.


Image: Herbert Bayer, American, Design for a Multimedia Trade Fair Booth, 1924. Opaque watercolor, charcoal, and touches of graphite with collage of cut, printed, and colored papers on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of the artist, BR48.101. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

 
           
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