Scott Chimileski and Roberto Kolter, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, will share their fascination with the wonders of the microbial world through vignettes and...

In the Annual Henri Zerner Lecture, Glenn D. Lowry, director of New York’s Museum of Modern Art, uses the idea of “in between-ness” as a social, political, and geographical metaphor to suggest how many artists from the Middle East, including Bouchra Khalili, Oraib Toukan, Wael Shawky, Walid Raad, and Rania Stephan, among others, have developed strategies to make art that is at once rooted in local concerns and engaged with universal issues. Lowry argues that the Middle East is not an isolated and foreign place but is a case study for how we locate ourselves in time and space in a rapidly changing world, one where social and cultural mores are in flux.

Presented by: Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Harvard Art Museums... Read more about In Between Places: Making Contemporary Art in the Middle East

Hear from curators, conservators, fellows and museums staff in the galleries. See Harvard Art Museums website for information on specific Gallery Talks. 

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museums admission.... Read more about Gallery Talk at the Harvard Art Museums

Lauren Greenfield '87, Emmy-Award-winning photographer/filmmaker, will discuss the 25 year journey that became her latest photography project Generation Wealth. Introduction by Robb Moss, Chair of the VES Department. 

Presented by: Department of Visual and Environmental Studies (VES)
Admission: Free and open to the public. RSVP here.... Read more about Artist Talk: Lauren Greenfield: GENERATION WEALTH

Matt Keegan’s exhibition at the Carpenter Center continues his long-standing exploration of language, materials, and identity formation. Replicate, Keegan’s first institutional solo presentation in the US, includes his recent video, Generation (2016), alongside sculpture, and two new site specific commissions—a hanging textile and a cardboard-lattice work made in response to the Sert Gallery space.

Exhibition dates: Oct 19, 2017 – Jan 7, 2018... Read more about Artist Talk: Matt Keegan

We Just Fit, You and Iⁱ is a group exhibition that probes the boundaries between bodies and architecture. Featuring Michelle Lopez, Sondra Perry, Pamela Rosenkranz, and Michael E. Smith, each artist looks to contemporary technology, unexpected material behavior, and architecture as primary means by which to re-articulate the human form. 

Exhibition dates: Oct 19, 2017 – Jan 7, 2018
Opening Reception: Thu, Oct 19, 6–8 pm... Read more about CCVA Exhibition: We Just Fit, You and I

Matt Keegan’s exhibition at the Carpenter Center continues his long-standing exploration of language, materials, and identity formation. Replicate, Keegan’s first institutional solo presentation in the US, includes his recent video, Generation (2016), alongside sculpture, and two new site specific commissions—a hanging textile and a cardboard-lattice work made in response to the Sert Gallery space.

Exhibition dates: Oct 19, 2017 – Jan 7, 2018
Opening Reception: Thu, Oct 19, 6–8 pm... Read more about CCVA Exhibition: Matt Keegan: Replicate

Julia Bryan-Wilson discusses her recently published book with Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies and History of Art and Architecture

Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts... Read more about Book Talk: Julia Bryan-Wilson: Fray: Art and Textile Politics

This program is the keynote lecture for the symposium The Room Where It Happens: On the Agency of Interior Spaces (October 13–14) at the Harvard Art Museums.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: The symposium is presented as part of HUBweek 2017 (October 10–15). The program is free and open to the public, but seating is limited and registration is required. Please register here. Following the lecture, The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766–1820 exhibition will remain open until 8pm.... Read more about Making Room: Cartography, Collecting, and the Construction of Empire

Focusing on the exchange of ideas between Luther, his contemporaries, and subsequent generations of reformers, on display are foundational texts, popular printed images, and objects that reflect the connection between texts and their readers.

Presented by: Harvard Divinity School Andover-Harvard Theological Library... Read more about Reformation: Dialogue and Identity, an Exhibition at the Harvard Divinity School

Thursday, December 7, 2017, 4pm - 8PM 

Friday, December 8, 10am - 7pm
Saturday, December 9, 10am - 7pm
Sunday, December 10, 10am- 7pm

Location: 224 Western Ave, Allston, Massachusetts 02134 | Directions

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The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Holiday Show and Sale December 7-10, 2017 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.... Read more about Ceramics Program Holiday Show and Sale 2017

Rob Ondo is a Cleveland Institute of Art graduate who majored in Illustration and minored in Printmaking. Rob's work for this exhibit are surreal, whimsical limited edition fire art lithographs, printed on a hard-operated press, from special limestone.

Presented by: Gutman Library... Read more about Rob Ondo's Lithography

From the Cerebral Dimestore

Mark Burns, 2016-2018 Artist In Residence

New work in Memento Mori, executed at the Ceramics Program 2016-2017... Read more about From the Cerebral Dimestore

Presented by: Radcliffe Institue for Advanced Study
Admission: Free and open to the public
Library hours: 9 AM-5 PM, Monday-Saturday
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Presented as a companion to Houghton Library’s concurrent exhibition, "Altered States," "Altered Gazes: Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll" reframes past and present countercultures by highlighting women’s participation and responses.... Read more about "Altered Gazes" at the Schlesinger Library