During the run of The Bauhaus and Harvard exhibition in 2019, a book took shape highlighting both established and emerging voices, as well as understudied aspects of the Bauhaus, such as weaving, photography, and art made by women. Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard is now available to pre-order, and you can check out a preview discussion of the book with curators Lynette Roth and Laura Muir.

In late February, we launched a podcast series looking at the various roles people play within the Harvard Art Museums. This week’s episode features curatorial assistant Heather Linton, who chats about how her career path led to the museum field.

This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:

• The next Student Guide Tour, on Saturday, March 13, confronts the history of museum practice through a critical look at three works: Eight Men Ferrying a Statue of the Buddha (from Mogao Cave 323, Dunhuang, China), a Liberian (Mano) “chief’s mask,” and Nature Study, a sculpture by Louise Bourgeois.
   
• From the podcast A Closer Look, listen to the latest episode featuring curatorial assistant Heather Linton. She’ll give insights into her job and how she came to pursue a career as a museum professional.
   
• On Thursday, March 18, let’s talk online about Picasso and Rothko and then pay a quick (virtual) visit to the Forbes Pigment Collection.
   
• We’ll explore works that are shaped by decay and generated through destruction, on Saturday, March 20. This interactive tour looks closely at the beauty that remains in the wake of decay.
   
• Don’t forget to register for the latest installment in our Art Talk series! Join us Tuesday, March 23 and learn what Antonio Tempesta’s print A Wolf Hunt can teach us about extinction in early modern Europe and today.
   
• Tune into “The Intentional Museum,” this year’s Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice, on Wednesday, March 24, featuring American historian Christy Coleman (registration required).
   
• We are thrilled to tell you about a very special online event: a reading and conversation with Joy Harjo, the 23rd poet laureate of the United States, on Monday, April 5, in partnership with the Harvard University Native American Program.
   
• To celebrate the release of Object Lessons: The Bauhaus and Harvard, take a look at this article and video from our archives on the Bauhaus weaving workshop, one of the most inventive and commercially successful departments of the pioneering 20th-century school of art and design. Notably, most of the artists involved were women.
   
• Discover haiku this spring, inspired by the Arnold Arboretum and Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection. On Friday, March 26, get tips on how to write your own haiku and learn about the growth of the poetic form during Japan’s Edo period.
   
• Register today for an event on Monday, March 29, when curator Kathleen A. Foster from the Philadelphia Museum of Art discusses early watercolor painters in Boston, including many women artists.