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We have so much expertise within museums, but it’s most meaningful when used to help communities address their issues and aspirations. On Wednesday, March 24, we’re thrilled to welcome American historian Christy Coleman for this year’s Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice. Coleman will talk about the idea of the intentional museum and discuss the power museums have to genuinely engage with communities around what matters to them most. Please join us for this important program.

And don’t forget: every Thursday and Saturday, take a deep dive into an aspect of our collections on a virtual tour with one of our Student Guides.

We hope to see you online soon!

This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:

  • Have you registered for the upcoming Art Talk on Tuesday, March 23? Examine how early modern Europeans were preoccupied with extinction—as we are today—and how Antonio Tempesta’s print A Wolf Hunt bears witness to these concerns.
     
  • Now available online is a recent conversation between research curator David Odo and photography curators Mark Sealy, Makeda Best, and Ilisa Barbash. They talk about the challenges—and possibilities—of curating legacy collections of troubling photographs.
     
  • Read about the unexpected discoveries that happened when a conservator and curator collaborated to reconstruct the base of an ancient vessel.
     
  • On Wednesday, March 24, tune in for this year’s Seminar on Innovative Curatorial Practice with American historian Christy Coleman, in a talk titled “The Intentional Museum.” A discussion will be moderated by Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and will feature photography curator Makeda Best and Harvard history professor Sven Beckert.
     
  • Discover haiku this spring, inspired by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Feinberg Collection! Sign up for the first haiku event of the season, happening on Friday, March 26.
     
  • Register today for an event on Monday, March 29 about the rise of watercolor painting in Boston in the late 1800s, with Kathleen A. Foster from the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She curated American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent in 2017.
     
  • Also coming up: join us Wednesday, March 31 for an online “culinary tour” of the Harvard Art Museums collections, focusing on the varied roles that food has played in art.
 
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Image: Photo courtesy of Christy S. Coleman.