Harvard Art Museums

Mar 23, 2024 | harvardartmuseums.org | Harvard Art Museums

This event does not require registration; see further details below. Join us for a screening of the documentary film Two Poets and a River. Using the Oxus river as a topos, this film explores themes of love and loss through the lives and musical poetry of two Wakhi musicians, Qurbonsho in Tajikistan and Daulatsho in Afghanistan. These two poet-singers share a common language and culture and yet remain separated by vicissitudes of the 19th-century Great Game in Central Asia.

Dec 11, 2023 | harvardartmuseums.org | Harvard Art Museums

This event requires registration; see further details below. Join curator Lynette Roth for a closer look at three different works—two series of portrait photographs from the Busch-Reisinger Museum collection and a video installation on loan— that rely on a systematized artistic format to examine and critique uniformity. Uniforms, which are at play in these works, can be used to delineate between those who “belong” and those who do not.

Oct 22, 2023 | harvardartmuseums.org | Harvard Art Museums

This event requires registration; see further details below. Join curator Laura Muir for a closer look at portraits from Timm Rautert’s photographic series Germans in Uniform (1974), which are included in the exhibition Seeing in Art and Medicine, on view from September 2 to December 30, 2023. Muir will share insights about the series and encourage participants to reflect on the role uniforms play in constructing our professional identities and the way we relate to others.

Sep 26, 2023 | whofish.org | Harvard Art Museums

• • • • • • • • • • • • • Details: What treasures are found in the Harvard University paleontology collections? Meet Harvard paleontologists to find out! See their favorite fossils, learn about their research, and ask them your questions. Learn about local fossils and where to find them, see what new techniques and technologies are being used to study fossils, and hear about current research projects. Join us to celebrate National Fossil Day with short talks and table-top presentations for...

Sep 18, 2023 | whofish.org | Harvard Art Museums

Join us for a free arts + science night at the Harvard Museum of Natural History and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology! This month we are partnering with Harvard’s Brain Science Initiative to explore our senses—from understanding our ability to perceive and process visual, smell, touch, sound, and taste stimuli to exploring how our brain “knows” when we feel hungry, thirsty, or excited. How does it all work?