This Week

A photograph depicts two sculptures of partially formed standing skeletons. The one on the left is missing its right forearm. The one on the right is missing its left forearm. They are both wearing headpieces and looking to the left.
Don’t let the end of October creep up on you! The Harvard Art Museums are offering plenty to do as Halloween approaches. Be sure to join us next Thursday evening for Harvard Art Museums at Night, and show up wearing your best Dragon’s Blood Red outfit for a chance to win a prize!
 
A group of people chat, holding drinks, at a gathering in a courtyard.

AT NIGHT

Frightful Night

Reserve your spot today and join us for a special Halloween-themed Harvard Art Museums at Night. We’ll be highlighting the pigment color Dragon’s Blood Red, from the museums’ famed Forbes Pigment Collection! Come dressed in your best macabre red and enjoy fright-themed activities for a chance to win a prize, mingle in the Calderwood Courtyard, and kick back with friends to the (eerily) smooth sounds of DJ C-Zone.

A photo of a dark-skinned man in a suit and glasses stands in front of a painting of George Washington. He is mimicking the stance of George Washington in the painting while smiling and laughing.

Our very own Horace Ballard, the Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Associate Curator of American Art, is included in a recent Boston Globe article by Cate McQuaid featuring four recently hired or newly promoted curators in the New England area. Read on to see how the museums are shifting to a more community-friendly library model and more!

 

 

A little girl stands amid a chaotic scene behind her.

Get into the spooky season and watch the popular zombie thriller Train to Busan, set on a bullet train in South Korea, on Sunday, October 30. What is even more thrilling is that the Screens for Teens film series is free for all!

Screenprint of a blurred face on a malfunctioning television screen.

SEMINAR

TV Art

Join us on Friday, October 28 for an Art Study Center Seminar with curatorial fellow Kyle Stephan. She will survey new acquisitions by German artist Wolf Vostell, one of the first artists to incorporate television into artworks. Register here for your spot in this workshop.

From Our Friends: Our neighbors down the street at the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture will be hosting a Day of the Dead Family Fiesta on Saturday, October 29, from 1 to 4pm. Celebrate the day with crafts, scent stations, traditional decorations, Nahuatl stories, and more!
 

Images: Header, Frightful Night: © Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Curator Spotlight: Pat Greenhouse/Boston Globe Staff. Zombie Train: © Well Go USA. TV Art: Wolf Vostell, German, TV Blur [Fernsehverwischung], 1966. Screenprint on off-white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of The Wolf Vostell Estate, 2022.289.

 







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