This Week

This color photograph shows a long stone and glass farm building. A reddish glow is coming through the windows, highlighting the silhouettes of plants.

It is so gratifying to welcome back Mark Rothko’s The Black and the White to the gallery walls, after a long period of careful restoration in the Straus Center. Huge thanks to the conservators at the Harvard Art Museums!

After marveling at the Rothko, you can also check out the exhibitions currently on view: Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 and States of Play: Prints from Rembrandt to Delsarte. Don’t forget that Krzysztof Wodiczko: Portrait opens next week. Weekend reservations have started to fill quickly, so be sure to book a slot today!

A multicolored abstract arrangement of geometric shapes.

ART TALK LIVE

Gaming the Museum

Register today for a virtual Art Talk on Tuesday, October 19, which uncovers the games lurking in the prints displayed in the States of Play exhibition, as well as the collections at large.

A man with glasses stands with his arms folded between two partially obscured portrait paintings.

Museums have long been a place of passion, community, and connection for Horace D. Ballard. Read the recent Harvard Gazette interview with Ballard, the museums’ newly appointed Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. Associate Curator of American Art.

A color photograph captures a target range in a desert landscape.

Read this second installment in our series of articles featuring Harvard Latinx students reflecting on works in the Harvard Art Museums.

Half of a painting depicting three horses grazing and a line drawing of the other half of the painting.

On Friday, October 8, get a preview of our new adult coloring book focused on German expressionism, and explore the museums’ collection of these vibrant works. There’s still time to register!


 

Images: (header) Photo: R. Leopoldina Torres. Gaming the Museum: Sol LeWitt, American, Complex Forms, 1989. Etching and aquatint on white, machine wove paper. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Margaret Fisher Fund, M21803. © 2021 The LeWitt Estate/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.  Reflecting on Migration: Richard Misrach, American, Border Patrol Target Range, Near Gulf of Mexico, Texas, 2013. Pigment print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of the artist, 2018.112. © Richard Misrach. Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco.
 
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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