This Week
A group of people gather around a painting in an oval frame. The painting shows three Black females surrounded by yellow flowers.

Remember, the Harvard Art Museums are free to everyone on Sundays. Reservations are required. When you visit, tell us what you think on social channels using #HarvardArtMuseums.  
This print by Pablo Picasso features an abstract rendering of a female face.

Step inside the mind of artists like Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Lee Krasner, Jacques Philippe Le Bas, and Louis Delsarte and see the artistic process behind their prints. These are just some of the artists featured in the exhibition States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte, on view until January 2022.
A woman stands looking at an indoor art installation that depicts hundreds of miniature nuclear warheads on the floor and model planes overhead. In the background is a winding staircase.

“You must go where X marks the spot. You have to go where it happens,” says artist Robert Del Tredici, as he explains his process of shining a light on environmental issues. Curator Makeda Best spoke with Del Tredici as part of a series of interviews with photographers whose work is included in Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, on view until January 2022.
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.

Inspired by the upcoming Harvard-Yale football game, curators Elizabeth Rudy and Freyda Spira will share the stories of artistic rivalry and competition behind a selection of European and American artworks, from the 16th to the 20th century. We hope you’ll join us for this Tuesday, November 16 Art Talk.
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 Thursday, November 18, take a virtual tour and explore distinctions between art and everyday objects and the relationship between art and mass production.

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Image: (header) Photo courtesy of Kris Snibbe/Harvard University. Behind the Fine Print: Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Jacqueline with Glossy Hair, 1962. State v/v: black on blue on red on yellow on beige. Linocut on white wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund and purchase through generosity of Jeanne and Geoff Champion and Barbara K. Wheaton, 2018.308.9. © 2021 Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. The Artist Activist: Robert Del Tredici, American, All the Warheads in the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, 1985. Gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Beinecke Fund, 2.2002.269. Photograph © Robert Del Tredici.
 
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.






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