This Week
A black and white ink painting depicts vines and flowers.

All virtual events are free and open to everyone. We look forward to seeing you online!
 
This week on Harvard Art Museums from Home:
Two multicolored birds stand in profile, one in front of the other, with their heads turned toward one another.

CREATURE FEATURE

Birds of a Feather

It’s not too late to register for the latest online Creature Feature, on Saturday, June 5. Gather the whole family to enjoy vibrant watercolors featuring fantastic birds!
A black and white ink painting depicts vines and flowers.

INDEX

Podcast

Season 1 of our new podcast, which introduces museum jobs through the personal stories of our staff, is now available for listening.
This photomontage consists of six squares. The three top squares each depict Cecilia Zhou wearing makeup and clothes that match the color scheme of three corresponding works of art below. The bottom left portrait is a painting of a very pale-skinned woman wearing a white cape tied with a pink ribbon. The bottom center image is an abstract painting of a woman’s face. The bottom right portrait is of a woman with almond-shaped eyes, black hair, and earrings.

ONLINE TOUR

Making Faces

Congrats to Cecilia Zhou, senior guide at the museums, for having her art-inspired step-by-step makeup tutorial commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On Saturday, June 5, you can join her virtual Student Guide Tour as she discusses three Harvard Art Museums paintings featured in her artful makeup tutorials.
In this photomontage, Maeve Miller is smiling and appearing to hold a colorful abstract painting that depicts a formal party scene, with men and women seated around tables. In the middle sits a boy holding a dummy in a patterned coat and top hat.

ONLINE TOUR

Staged

On Thursday, June 10, Maeve Miller will explore how performance and entertainment figure into three works of art: Erich Heckel’s Magician, Jacob Lawrence’s Ventriloquist, and a woodblock print of two actors made in 1794 by Tōshūsai Sharaku.
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LECTURE

Painting Edo

There's still time to register for an upcoming Painting Edo eventon Tuesday, June 8, which considers the emergence of Japonisme in a European context.
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ART TALK

Fresh Frames

Register now for this online Art Talk on Tuesday, June 29, in which curator Lynette Roth will tell the story of how a team of colleagues reframed the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s paintings collection in advance of the museum’s reopening in 2014.

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