This Week
A rectangle textile fragment that features four roundels with animals.

A busy month for programming at the Harvard Art Museums continues with a variety of upcoming events, including the online series Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade: Curating Histories, Envisioning Futures, which concludes next Friday, April 23. Like all our virtual events, these programs are free and open to everyone.

Earth Day is next week, so why not take the new Planting Edo Field Guide with you on a walk through the Arnold Arboretum, where you can spot trees and flowers that appear in works from the Painting Edo exhibition.  
 
This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:
A wooden sculpture of a small child lies carefully on an examination table in a laboratory. A dark-haired woman leans over the sculpture, holding a flashlight to cast light onto the object.

Get up close with the extraordinary sculpture Prince Shōtoku at Age Two and discover new insights gained from collaborative research with the Arnold Arboretum.
In this photomontage, a smiling young woman dressed in a blue sweater and black pants stands in front of a gray wall. She is holding a large black and white photograph of a grassy landscape with visible burn marks.

Take in a 30-minute online tour on Saturday, April 17 with Sophia Mautz of the Ho Family Student Guide Program, which will illuminate our unfolding climate crisis.
A rectangle textile fragment that features four roundels with animals.

ART TALK LIVE

Ancient Textiles

On Tuesday, April 20, join conservation fellow Julie Wertz to explore what close looking, microscopy, and micro-analytical techniques can teach us about ancient Egyptian textiles and the methods used to create them.
A female with long hair, seated at center on a chair, faces the camera. She holds in both hands a square cardboard with six colored square sections.

Hands-On Fun

Art by You

In the Make and Create section of the Harvard Art Museums from Home page, you can download our new Planting Edo Field Guide, print out our Coloring Ancient Egypt activity book, follow a variety of art making prompts, and much more.
The dome-shaped rind of half a calabash fruit, intricately carved and seen from above.

The Art Museums and the Legacies of the Dutch Slave Trade series concludes on Friday, April 23 in two parts. The first session features writer Jamaica Kincaid, visual artist Rosana Paulino, and art historian Cheryl Finley. The second session is a roundtable discussion on Dutch and American art and history.
A woman, seen from the shoulders up, is making eye contact with the viewer. She is smiling and looking over her right shoulder.

EVENTS

Coming Soon

Register for these special upcoming events! Artist Dorothea Rockburne explores drawing as a form of intellectual inquiry, on Tuesday, April 27. Professor Giovanni Bazzana discusses his course on the human fascination with the apocalypse and how artists have imagined the topic over time, on Wednesday, April 28. Keep an eye on the calendar as we continue to add more programs!

Index 

Online Events

Image (header): Cuff band with animals in interlocking scrolls, Byzantine, late 4th to early 5th century. Wool and linen, tapestry weave. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Benjamin and Lilian Hertzberg, 2004.204.






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