This Week
A slender young trans woman with long dark brown curly hair and bright red fingernails appears frontally in three-quarter length. She is outside, leaning against a partially painted brick wall, her head turned to the right. She is wearing a thin fur jacket with a wide collar, a low-cut black top, and tight black pants.

In the 1980s, Mariette Pathy Allen created a groundbreaking portfolio focused on crossdressers. Curator Makeda Best recently talked with the photographer—read the interview in Index magazine.

 This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:
In this photomontage, a young man in a brown t-shirt holds out his hand. On his flat palm, there appears to be a small greenish-gray sculpture of a kneeling figure with its arms wrapped around an object at its chest.

Vlad Batagui from the Ho Family Student Guide Program will explore identity in his tour focusing on works by Vincent van Gogh and others on Saturday, April 10. 
In this ink painting, a robed, smiling man stands beneath a tree near the doorway of a wooden building.

If hearts are in harmony, must we travel for minds to meet? Matthew McKelway traces the paths of two such “meetings” in a work by Kano Sansetsu, on Wednesday, April 14.

 
This black and white photograph shows a living room filled with sleek, modernist furniture.

ART TALK 

Bauhaus Vision

Learn about the historically overlooked role Lucia Moholy played in promoting a Bauhaus vision of modern living.
This image shows a sketchbook page containing architectural drawings colored with markers.

ART STUDY CENTER SEMINAR

Portable Studios

Discover artist Otto Piene’s remarkable sketchbooks in this online Art Study Center Seminar on Friday, April 16.
A standing Black child holds the bridle and reins of a white horse.

LECTURE series

Forging New Narratives

Join us Friday, April 16 for the second in a four-part series focused on narrating and understanding slavery’s legacies.
A slender young trans woman with long dark brown curly hair and bright red fingernails appears frontally in three-quarter length. She is outside, leaning against a partially painted brick wall, her head turned to the right.

“I said to myself—it just came to me—I’m not looking at a man or a woman, I’m looking at a human being. I’m looking at a soul. I took the picture.” Read this illuminating interview between curator Makeda Best and photographer Mariette Pathy Allen.
The photograph depicts the interior of the Harvard Art Museums with a view of arcades and a glass roof.

Take in a 30-minute online tour on Saturday, April 17 from Sophia Mautz of the Ho Family Student Guide Program, which will illuminate our unfolding climate crisis.
This photograph shows a woman in short sleeves with a long narrow hand brush in her left hand and a pipe in her right hand. She is looking downward as she works on an art object. A lamp is positioned above her left shoulder.

In the latest episode of our podcast, meet conservator and head of the objects lab Angela Chang.

Index 

Online Events

Image (header): : Mariette Pathy Allen, American, Vanessa, 1980s. From the portfolio Transformations: Crossdressers and Those Who Love Them. Dye transfer print. Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of the artist, 2.2002.35. © Mariette Pathy Allen.






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