HARVARD ART MUSEUMS CLOSED ON FEB. 9 DUE TO SNOW. EVENT CANCELED.

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk. See website for museum admission.
Museum Hours: Open daily 10am–5pm
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Melissa Venator, the Engelhorn Curatorial Fellow in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, will give today’s gallery talk.... Read more about Gallery Talk: Activation of Moholy-Nagy’s Light Prop for an Electric Stage

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk. See website for museum admission.
Museum Hours: Open daily 10am–5pm
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Dakota DeVos, curatorial assistant for special exhibitions and publications in the Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, will give today’s gallery talk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.... Read more about Gallery Talk: Max Pechstein’s Stained Glass Window

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free with museums admission. This talk is limited to 15 people and tickets are required. Ten minutes before the talk, tickets will become available at the admissions desk. See website for museum admission.
Museum Hours: Open daily 10am–5pm
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Elizabeth M. Rudy, the Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Associate Curator of Prints, will give today’s gallery talk.

Please meet in the Calderwood Courtyard, in front of the digital screens between the shop and the admissions desk. Museums staff will be on hand to collect tickets.... Read more about Gallery Talk: Daumier’s Graphic Mastery

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free admission. See website for museum admission.
Film showings: Dec. 9, Jan. 13, Feb. 10, Mar. 10, Apr. 7
Museum Hours: Open daily 10am–5pm
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Presented by: Harvard South Asia Institute
Admission: Free 
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Talk with Meenakshi Sengupta, Visiting Artist at the South Asia Institute. This talk will focus on the celebration of womanhood and how Sengupta comes to this work. Boys don’t cry is a title of her recent drawing series. She will mainly talk about her practice and how she developed her language primarily surrounded by conventional art practice, and finally the way she explores that form into a broader aspect. Her talk will be supported by an audio-visual presentation of her works, followed by a discussion.... Read more about Artist Talk: Boys don’t cry

Presented by: Harvard South Asia Institute
Admission: Free 
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Komal Shahid Khan, Visiting Artists at the South Asia Institute Arts Program, will give an overview of her work, starting with an introduction and practices which lead to her specialization in miniature painting. Khan will discuss how her work evolved over time, from traditional to conceptual and experimental.... Read more about Artist talk: Waking Whispers

Presented by: Office for the Arts
Admission: Free and open to Harvard College undergraduates

Informal drop-in knitting led by OFA staff member Marin Orlosky Randow ’07-'08. All levels welcome, from first-timers who want to learn (materials provided) to experienced...

Presented by: Harvard Art Museums
Admission: Free and open to the public. The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway.
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Austrian artist VALIE EXPORT (b. 1940) is one of the most important pioneers in conceptual media art, performance, and film. In this lecture, the artist will discuss her oeuvre, from her early Expanded Cinema works and conceptual photography to her most recent drawings and works in public spaces, as well as future projects.... Read more about Lecture: VALIE EXPORT: Medial Imaginations

Presented by: Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
Admission: Free and open to the public
Exhibition Runs: 11/16-1/14 
Gallery hours: Monday-Saturday, 12-5 PM
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Working with vibrating walls, a live-streaming weather report, and architectural models from schools for the blind, this exhibition explores sensory experience through different modes of perception. The artist Wendy Jacob challenges the viewer to place touch on an equal footing with sight. The title comes from the Beaufort Wind Scale, which relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land.... Read more about Exhibition: Calm. Smoke rises vertically.

Presented by: Harvard Museum of Natural History
Admission: See website for admission information
Museum hours: Open daily 9 AM-5 PM
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Many years before they were commissioned by Harvard University to make the Glass Flowers, father and son artists Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka meticulously shaped glass into lifelike models of marine and terrestrial animals. Renowned for their beauty and exacting detail, the Blaschka invertebrate models were commissioned by universities and museums throughout world during the nineteenth century.... Read more about Sea Creatures in Glass at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

Presented by: Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard
Admission: Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.
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Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Seminar on Violence and Non-Violence

Joseph Koerner, Harvard University

Art in a State of Siege: Hieronymus Bosch in...

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

Workshop Description:

Sculptor Kyungmin Park will demonstrate the construction of her figurative sculptures in porcelain in this one-day workshop. Park will demonstrate how to achieve crisp lines and clean, tight surfaces with simple tools. She will also explore conceptual ideas and talk about the importance of facial expression and symbology within her work. From Park, "A child's untamed imagination can create a new and exciting owrld out of a single object. The combination of an uncorrupted point of view, a strong imagination, overflowing curiosity, and the desire to push boundaries creates a very special mindset particular to children. The adult world, by contrast, restrains the formally infinite imagination by imposing responsibilities and practical concerns. Society puts limits on the way we, as individuals, can perceive things, and as an artist I an interested in expanding these confines."

... Read more about Visiting Artist Workshop with Kyungmin Park

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

Workshop Description:

North Carolina master potter, Michael Kline, will demonstrate his beautifully thrown multi-part pots, handled bowls, jug forms and a cut-edge plate. Surface demonstrations will include brush-work with pigmented wax resist and slip-inlay techniques. Participants will enjoy a hands-on exercise on brush work. The day will include an hour for lunch (pot-luck) with a slide presentation on the Kline's work, his studio and kilns in North Carolina as well as his use of social media as a contemporary potter.

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Presented by: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Back on view Dec 15, 2016–Jan 22, 2017
Free and open to the public

Renée Green's two-year engagement as the Institution (Building) artist at the Carpenter Center launches with a public conversation between the artist and CCVA Scholar, Gloria Sutton. Given Green's prolific output during the last twenty-five years, the conversation aims at contextualizing signal moments within the artist’s seminal...

Presented by: KOREA INSTITUTE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Dates: November 7...