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WEBThe Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
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WEB4 days ago · From there, grab a coffee or snack in Jenny's Cafe or browse the many unique gifts in the museum shop before exploring over 50 galleries of art across three floors. The Harvard Art Museums are committed to creating an environment that fosters inclusion and belonging. Please join us in ensuring that every visitor feels welcomed and respected.
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WEBExplore our collections: approximately 250,000 objects from the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The vast collection contains objects spanning from c. 7000 BCE to 2014.
Understanding Paper: Structures, Watermarks, and a Conservator’s ...
WEBMay 7, 2021 · There is more to paper than meets the eye. Paper conservation fellow Leonie Müller shares with Index readers the material qualities of paper and how its structures reveal the process of how it’s made.. As a paper conservator, I am fascinated by the structure of paper and how different it can look, feel, and even sound—it can be rough or smooth, glossy or matte; it can have varying shades ...
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
WEBMay 20, 2023 · Discover how American watercolorists from Winslow Homer to Hannah Wilke leveraged the imaginative and experimental capacity of the medium to create marvelously diverse works over more than a century. Into the Light presents 100 compelling and rarely seen watercolors by well-known and historically underrepresented American artists selected from the Harvard Art Museums’ deep and diverse holdings.
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WEBJul 1, 2022 · Current A Colloquium in the Visual Arts. August 31, 2024–January 5, 2025 University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums The Harvard course A Colloquium in the Visual Arts (Humanities 20) is an introduction to the study of the humanities through major works of art and architecture from around the world: everything from ancient Greek vases and Japanese woodblock prints to Baroque sculpture ...
Writing on the Wall | Index Magazine | Harvard Art Museums
WEBIt sounds pretty self-explanatory, but there are different terms used to refer to various sizes and formats of descriptive wall text. At the Harvard Art Museums, every object receives a tombstone. This macabre moniker is the traditional term used to refer to a bare-bones (ahem) label. The tombstone simply lists the object’s name and artist ...
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WEBa computer sees art. Using artificial intelligence, the Harvard Art Museums has collected 53,375,671 machine-generated descriptions and tags covering 378,002 images of artworks. Ranging from object recognition to face analysis that predicts gender, age, and emotion, the data reveals how computers interpret paintings, photographs, and sculptures.
Celebrating Juneteenth: The Power of Portraits
WEBJun 17, 2021 · This Juneteenth, Harvard students and staff present a selection of images by and of Black individuals from the Harvard Art Museums collections. These 20th- and 21st-century works explore the complexities of identity, agency, and self-fashioning, celebrating the diversity of the American experience. A Step Forward: October’s Gone . . .