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Materials Lab Workshop: Inspired by Nature—Imaginative Drawing, with Erica Beade
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MALooking closely at nature inspires a huge range of imaginative artwork, from abstraction and decorative work to illustration and cartooning. In this workshop, we’ll first examine a wide variety of drawings before exploring techniques for unleashing our imagination to create our own. Class size will be limited to 15 to allow time for individual feedback. […]
Gallery Talk: Keep Flowering! Gardens in Islamic and South Asian Art
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MALeaves are falling outside but the flowers are blooming in our galleries! Curatorial fellow Janet O’Brien will guide you on a stroll through the lush gardens evoked in Islamic and South Asian art featured in a temporary installation. Along the way, you’ll view a magnificent 18th-century Persian carpet of a four-part garden (chaharbagh) design, contemporary […]
Gallery Talk: Feline Felicity as Early American Modernism
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAIn the early 20th century, as increasingly tall buildings introduced new perspectives onto the world, photographers sought ways to capture this way of seeing. Many of Charles Sheeler’s compositions for his celebrated drawings and paintings began as photographs and were indebted to the contemporaneous technological advancements in architecture and photography. Join curator Mitra Abbaspour for […]
Exhibition Tour: Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us for an in-depth tour of our special exhibition Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static (August 30, 2025–January 4, 2026), led by Madeline Murphy Turner, co-curator of the exhibition. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static offers a new look at the practice of acclaimed artist and educator Edna Andrade (1917–2008). Andrade is best known for her geometric […]
Play Reading- A Part Of the Noise- based on the life and times of FRANZ KLINE
Join us Monday, November 17th, 7pm at the Theater For The New City for a reading of A Part Of the Noise- based on the life and times of Franz Kline-- Written by Carl Kline, Directed by Joe Battista THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY 155 First Avenue (between 9th & 10th Street) New York, NY […]