Friend of the museums, Harvard professor Jennifer L. Roberts kicked off the National Gallery of Art’s A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts series with this video on printmaking as an art of physical contact. Roberts argues that the transfer under pressure between surfaces is a direct touch that can evoke multiple forms of intimacy. Check it out!
This digital resource investigates the Tianlongshan cave temples—from their creation and significance in Buddhist medieval China, to the removal and sale of fragments from the site, to the past and current display of cave fragments at the Harvard Art Museums.
This online lecture by Yurika Wakamatsu, happening on Tuesday, May 25, will take you on a journey within an Okuhara Seiko painting—from an intricate web of tangled lines and inky blotches to a lotus pond bathed in moonlight. Register today!
Image (header): Okuhara Seiko, Lotus in Autumn, Japanese, Meiji era, 1872. Hanging scroll; ink on paper. Harvard Art Museums, Promised gift of Robert S. and Betsy G. Feinberg, TL42147.29.
