This Week
In a gallery, there is a gold-framed drawing of a dark-skinned man wearing 18th-century clothing. The drawing is on a dark blue wall; a light blue wall with two other drawings is behind it.
Step away from the stress of the holidays and take advantage of the last weekend to see Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward, closing on December 30. While you’re here, you can visit Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment before the exhibition ends on January 15.

Plan your next visit soon (and double-check which days we’re closed for the holidays)!
This photograph shows a metal sculpture comprising several discs and rods of varying shapes.

GALLERY TALK

Bauhaus in Action

Join curatorial fellow Clemens Ottenhausen on Tuesday, December 20, as they discuss and activate an experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.
A painted portrait of a woman with dark brown eyes and black hair pulled back. The image is split in two; the left side is darker with a green background and the right side is lighter with a beige background.

Wall Street Journal art critic Karen Wilkin chose Funerary Portraits as her pick for most informative exhibition in her wrap-up of 2022. There’s still time to see the show before it closes on December 30.

 

 
A color print portrays the muscular system of a woman’s back.

Murray Whyte of The Boston Globe lists the Harvard Art Museums in his review of the best of 2022. He highlights both our ReFrame initiative and the Dare to Know exhibition as complicating “the dominant, straight-line narratives of Western art that museums have always told.” Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment is on view until January 15—there’s still time to explore the rich stories the exhibition reveals.
 
A partial terracotta sculpture of a muscular man.

Get ready for our next exhibition, which opens January 28. A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection takes us into ancient Greek and Roman society and offers fresh perspectives for reconsidering our own presence in the world.
A book cover depicts an illustration of a spine, showing bones and muscles. The words “Dare to Know” in white text is overlaid on the image.

PUBLICATION

Off the Press

Bring home the Dare to Know exhibition for the holidays with its accompanying catalogue, which The New York Times just listed as one of the best art books of 2022! The book probes developments in the natural sciences, technology, economics, and more—all through the lens of the graphic arts.
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Curious about color? Take a look at the intersection of science and art in a recent episode of Chronicle (WCVB) exploring the Forbes Pigment Collection and the Funerary Portraits exhibition. 

Index 

Events

 

Images: (Header) © Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Year-End Accolades: Jacques-Fabien Gautier d’Agoty, French, Muscles of the Back, plate 14 from Myologie complette en couleur et grandeur naturelle (Complete Scientific Study of Muscles in Color and Life-Size), 1746. Color mezzotint. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Purchased with the SmithKline Beckman Corporation Fund, 1968, 1968-25-79n, TL42415.2. Image: Courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. A World Within Reach: Weary Herakles, Hellenistic, Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), c. 50–25 BCE. Terracotta. Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek, Munich, SL 257, TL42482.39. Image: © Staatliche Antikensammlungen und Glyptothek. Pigment Power: © Caitlin Cunningham Photography.

The Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment exhibition is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Support for the exhibition is provided by the Melvin R. Seiden and Janine Luke Fund for Publications and Exhibitions, the Robert M. Light Print Department Fund, the Stanley H. Durwood Foundation Support Fund, the Catalogues and Exhibitions Fund for Pre-Twentieth-Century Art of the Fogg Museum, and the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. The accompanying catalogue was made possible by the Andrew W. Mellon Publication Funds, including the Henry P. McIlhenny Fund. Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund.

Support for the Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward exhibition is provided by the Kelekian Fund, the Christopher and Jean Angell Charitable Fund, and the Kornfeld Foundation (through Christopher Angell). Related programming is supported by the M. Victor Leventritt Lecture Series Endowment Fund.






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