Thebes, one of Egypt’s largest archaeological sites, is famous for its numerous tombs and temples that offer an unparalleled window into ancient Egyptian culture and craftsmanship. Melinda Hartwig will discuss the painting and texts found in the... Read more about The Making of a Theban Tomb Chapel

Emmet Gowin will explore his critically acclaimed oeuvre and his photographic interests over the span of a career that began when he was a student of Harry Callahan in the 1960s. In addition to a lifelong devotion to teaching, Gowin has pursued a range... Read more about Here on Earth: Emmet Gowin on a Life in Photography

Founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus was the 20th century’s most influential school of art, architecture, and design. A century later, we continue to learn from the rich trove of student exercises, iconic design objects,... Read more about Bauhaus 100: Object Lessons from a Historic Collection

The Bauhaus and Harvard exhibition—mounted in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany—presents nearly 200 works by more than 70 artists, drawn almost entirely from the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s... Read more about Tour: The Bauhaus and Harvard

Inaugural Festivities, Bauhaus Dessau, December 1926. The screening at the inauguration of the Bauhaus Dessau reflected how the newly fueled fascination with an “architectural film” evolved in close dialogue with the cinematic study of the... Read more about Film by Design: Bauhaus and the Moving Image, Part 2

Metal Party, February 1929. One of the Bauhaus’s most visually exuberant parties, the Metal Party featured a multifaceted film program, including a montage by found-footage pioneer Albrecht Viktor Blum....

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Harvard undergraduates lead these tours focused on one or more objects in our collections. Free with museum admission. Tours are limited to 15 people and are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. For more information, including tour dates and times, click... Read more about Harvard Art Museums Student Guide Tour

Tahir Carl Karmali is a Kenyan-born, New York-based visual artist whose work deals with critiquing the global economy, geopolitics and the networks that circulate goods an people. He works across mediums and combines photography, photocopying,... Read more about Tahir Carl Karmali in Conversation with Jesse Firestone

Join student groups AfricaGSD and the African American Student Union (AASU) for an evening with EJ Hill (Radcliffe Fellow '19). One of the most exciting visual artists working in the US today, EJ Hill's practice centers on the... Read more about Artist Talk: EJ Hill

Sound poet and composer Jaap Blonk will perform a selection of poems spanning Arp’s long career. Like Arp, Blonk is a versatile musician, artist, and poet. He has recorded and frequently performs the sound poetry of the historic avant-... Read more about Poetry Reading: Hans Arp by Jaap Blonk

Presented by: Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard

Ashwini Bhat will present a talk about her life and work in this noon lecture. Bhat's solo exhibition,...

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In this biennial lecture, director Nicholas Cahill, professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and director of the Sardis expedition, will present new discoveries, research, and conservation projects of 2017–18. He... Read more about Recent Discoveries at Sardis: From the Bronze Age to the End of Antiquity

In honor of Slow Art Day, Caitlin Casey, a student in the arts in education program at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (HGSE), will guide visitors in a special mindfulness meditation session. Inspired by Christophe Andre’s book Looking at... Read more about Pairing Mindful Meditation with a Scholar's Rock

In this seminar, Laura Muir, curator of the The Bauhaus and Harvard exhibition, and Gary Van Zante, curator of an exhibition of Bauhaus photography at the Kurtz Gallery for Photography at the MIT Museum, will examine a selection of experimental,... Read more about Seminar: Photography and the Bauhaus

Jessie Park, the Rousseau Curatorial Fellow in European Art, and Kirsten Burke, a Ph.D. student in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard, will explore new ways of seeing medals as they intersect with other artistic media. A rare... Read more about Seminar: Intersections between Media - European Medals, Prints, and Paintings from the 16th to 19th Century