This Week
A woman in a small backyard garden leans down and speaks to a person through a chain-link fence who is wearing a white hazmat suit. The man and three other people similarly dressed are in a dug trench.

The reviews are in! The Washington Post describes Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 as “brilliant.” The exhibition shines light on issues that some would like to remain invisible. Among the many questions it raises, Devour the Land asks: Can photography support environmental activism? Visit the exhibition and let us know what you think. 

Remember, advance tickets are required for admission and Sundays are free for everyone.
In this photomontage, a smiling young woman with dark hair appears to hold a large color photograph. It depicts a seated Native American woman, dressed in brightly colored traditional clothing, in an autumnal landscape scene, with a lake and a snow-capped mountain in the background. A deer is to the woman’s left and a cow skull is to her right.

Check out this online Student Guide Tour on Thursday, November 4 that will contrast colonial visions of the U.S. West with the realities lived and portrayed by Native American artists.
Fragment of a stone carving depicting a bearded man raising his right hand and emerging from a winged disk.

A fragment from Persepolis, which is part of our ReFrame initiative, was discussed in a recent Art Talk Live. Watch this recording to learn more about how Persepolis was once a city of colorful splendor.
A painting shows a seated female figure in an orange gown holding an artist palette and paintbrushes. She points to a portrait of a man in a black costume with a white collar on an easel to left. Another figure to her right stands in profile looking at the painting.

As part of her three-part Erasmus Lecture series, on Friday, November 12, Hanneke Grootenboer will consider how craft was not only a form of self-expression for early modern female artists, but also a mode of thinking. (And there’s still time to register for the other lectures, on November 5 and November 19.)
A statue of a soldier stands on a pedestal in a city park, with a high-rise building in the background, and with a light projection visible on its face.

On Friday, November 12, Harvard’s Graduate School of Design will host an online event with Krzysztof Wodiczko, the school’s Professor in Residence. The artist will explore architecture’s role in the construction and performance of memory and the role of trauma, healing, and survival in his work. A thought-provoking commissioned artwork by Wodiczko is now on view at the Harvard Art Museums.
A man with dark long hair and a blue jacket sits in a studio.

In an interview with NOVA, Straus Center director Narayan Khandekar talks about the tools he uses to scientifically analyze paintings—including a collection of more than 2,700 pigments.
A side proofile of a woman looking into a microscope

Take in this recording of an Art Talk that explores the artistic processes in the creation of beautiful and functional Egyptian textiles. The works are featured in the museums’ upcoming exhibition Social Fabrics, opening in January.

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Image: (header) Ashley Gilbertson, Australian, A resident talks to workers in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, California on May 5, 2017, 2017. Archival pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs, 2020.166. © Ashley Gilbertson.
Krzysztof Wodiczko: “Monument,” Madison Square Park, New York City (detail), 2020. Image courtesy of Krzysztof Wodiczko.
 
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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