Art Museums
‘Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time’ Holds True to Its Name
Even for non-contemporary art enthusiasts, this exhibit is a must-see. Though the exhibit itself is not large, it leaves a powerful impression on the viewer that will last well beyond the walls of the museum. “Common Threads: Weaving Stories Across Time” truly lives up to its name, beautifully demonstrating how art can break barriers and connect people across time and across cultures.
Speakers Emphasize Awareness At Humanitarian Action Summit
Students, faculty, and researchers from Harvard and elsewhere gathered Thursday at the Harvard Art Museums for the 2018 Humanitarian Action Summit's talks.
An Invitation to Play: The MFA Winnie-the-Pooh Exhibition
It’s loud, exciting, and stimulating, and this emphasis on interplay — and play itself — is no accident. Wall text abounds with descriptions of collaboration between the Milne-Shepard families, as well as the subtlety of “Winnie-the-Pooh’s” educational agenda.
Winnie The Pooh MFA
Ernest Howard Shepard, ‘The bees are getting suspicious’, Winnie‑the‑Pooh chapter 1, p. 15, 1926. Pencil on paper.
Time is Now
Harvard's Sert Gallery will display the exhibit "Time is Now: Photography and Social Change in James Baldwin's America" from Sept. 13 until Dec. 30.
Propaganda Postcards
5th Camp Dux, Opera Balilla, 1935. Lithograph (divided back). Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Archive—Promised gift of Leonard A. Lauder.
Propaganda Postcards Tell a Story of Societal Fragmentation and Unity
Located in Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the exhibit “The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of World Wars” transports viewers back to this time and invites them to perceive the energy, diversity, and gravity of this brusque, now-primitive form of media.
Winnie the Pooh and Tigger and Piglet Too
Winnie-the-Pooh: Exploring a Classic, an exhibition at the MFA now through January, includes stuffed animals of some of the classic characters from the Hundred Acre Wood including Pooh Bear, Tigger and Piglet.
False Narratives
“The Art of Influence: Propaganda Postcards from the Era of the World Wars” is an exhibit at the MFA which looks at the way graphic art and design has been used as propaganda.
Capitalism Museum
Visitors can crank The Minimum Wage Machine by Blake Fall-Conroy to get one penny every 4 seconds, or $9/hour (minimum wage).
Museum of Capitalism Brings Intelligent, Approachable Exhibit to Tufts
Forget what you know about capitalism — it’s defined as something much broader than our country’s free-market principles at “Museum of Capitalism.”
Teresita Fernández
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses her work in connection to her art instillation Autumn (... Nothing Personal) during a lecture at the Harvard Art Museum on Thursday.
Bull Head Rhyton Animal Vessels
Bull head rhyton, Minoan (Late Minoan IIIA:2), 14th–13th century BCE. Painted terracotta. From Karpathos (Greece). The British Museum, London. Donated by W. R. Paton.
The History of Drinking: From New York to Timbuktu
A new exhibit at the Harvard Art Museums reveals the intricate — and often surprising — history of drinking from the ancient world to the present.
Demonstrators Hold 'Die-In' To Protest Sackler Family’s Ties to Harvard Art Museums
More than 30 protesters held a “die-in” in the Arthur M. Sackler Museum Friday to protest its connections to a family they said contributed to the opioid crisis.
