This week, you can enjoy an online culinary event in partnership with the Food Literacy Project at Harvard University Dining Services. We are also thrilled to welcome Kathy Foster from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, who will lead a discussion around early American watercolorists in Boston. These virtual events are free and open to everyone.

This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:

• Don’t forget to check out one of our Ho Family Student Guide Tours, which continue online on Thursdays and Saturdays. Spend 30 minutes of your day discussing art and sharing fresh perspectives.
   
• In the late 1800s, enthusiasm for watercolor painting swept the United States, and Boston was no different. In her lecture on Monday, March 29, Kathy Foster from the Philadelphia Museum of Art will explore Ruskin, the Aesthetic Movement, and the rise of Impressionism.
   
• From vegetable-based dyes to dairy fixatives, food and art share a long and interesting history. Don’t miss the chance to take an online culinary tour of the collections on Wednesday, March 31.
   
• Be sure to join us for an online 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.
   
• A four-part series coming up in April will center on art and the legacies of the Dutch slave trade, including efforts by museums to present more complete narratives of and perspectives on slavery. This series is presented by the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Harvard Art Museums, and Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. The first installment is on Friday, April 9.
   
• Sign up to attend the always fascinating biennial lecture, on April 7, about the excavation at Sardis, one of the great ancient cities of western Turkey from the Bronze Age to the Middle Ages. Sardis director Nicholas Cahill will report on recent work and discoveries from the 2019 and 2020 seasons and will discuss future prospects.