Harvard Art Museums

Tour 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Sachi Laumas will explore how three works of art engage with illness and the healing process. One of the works Diana Ochoa-Chavez will spotlight is Harmony in Grey and Peach Colour (1872-1874) by James McNeill Whistler.

Tour 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Diana Ochoa-Chavez will explore how artists have attempted to live with loss and how grief has impacted their art. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, objects conservation fellow Kaela Nurmi will talk about broken pot assembly. 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, Adolphus Busch Hall, Harvard University.

Performance 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall. Photo: Stuart Semple, 2026

Lecture 10:00 pm - 11:15 pm Harvard Art Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA, Enter at Broadway for evening programs British artist Stuart Semple will explore the role of artist material developers and how color can serve as a vehicle for powerful ideas. Illustration of the Gallic hilltop settlement of Alesia and Roman military defences. Folio from a 1519 edition of Julius Caesar’s Gallic War, published in Venice by Aldo Manuzio and Andrea Torresano. *OLC C116 519

Performance 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Listen to stories from ancient texts, read in Latin and in English translation, about Celtic people as seen through Roman eyes. One of the works Diana Ochoa-Chavez will spotlight is The Blessed Damozel (1871–78) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Tour 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA This is a tour in praise of love, exploring what it means to love and how love transforms us. One of the works Alyssia Wiesenbauer will spotlight is Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863) by Albert Bierstadt.

Tour 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Wiesenbauer will explore the relationship between art and the natural world on this tour that takes you from the galleries to nearby grounds. One of the works Varya Lyapneva will spotlight is the painting Rocky Mountains, “Lander’s Peak” (1863) by Albert Bierstadt.

Tour 3:00 pm - 3:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Varya Lyapneva will explore space, mapping, and dislocation in three works of art that visualize fantasy worlds. Ricardo Fernandes Garcia with one of the paintings he will spotlight, Winslow Homer’s The Brush Harrow (1865).

Tour 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Ricardo Fernandes Garcia will explore how representations of innocence have enabled painters to address conflict and war. Stater of the Ambiani, uncertain mint in Belgic Gaul, 2nd century BCE. Gold; max. diameter: 2.65cm, weight: 7.38g. Found in Fenny Stratford, England. The British Museum, 1919,0213.17. Image: © Trustees of the British Museum.

Performance 4:15 pm - 4:45 pm Harvard Art Museums, Adolphus Busch Hall 29 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA Recitals are performed on Harvard’s famous 1958 D. A. Flentrop organ, at Adolphus Busch Hall. László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Student Event 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Harvard students are invited to study for finals in a quiet space at the museums.

Tour 6:00 pm - 6:50 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Jade Xiao will explore how art accommodates the fleeting nature of time. Katsushika Hokusai 葛飾北斎, Inkstone in a horseshoe shape (Bateiseki), from the series A Selection of Horses (Uma zukushi), 1822. Woodblock print (surimono); ink, color, and metallic pigments on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel, 1933.4.1788.

Performance 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Adolphus Busch Hall, 27 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA Enjoy an afternoon of music in the light-filled Calderwood Courtyard and the elegant atmosphere of Adolphus Busch Hall. One of the works Jade Xiao will spotlight is The Vanity of the Artist’s Dream (1830) by Charles Bird King.

Student Event 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Harvard students are invited to study for finals in a quiet space at the museums. Lucia Moholy, Bauhaus Masters’ Housing, Dessau, 1925–1926: Detail of Writing Desk in Walter Gropius’s House, 1926, printed c. 1950. Modern gelatin silver print. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Walter Gropius, BR50.140. ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.

Student Event 2:00 pm - 8:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Harvard students are invited to study for finals in a quiet space at the museums. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! Pony cap, 3rd century BCE. Bronze. From Torrs, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, X.FA 72. © National Museums Scotland.

Supporter Event 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Friends, Fellows, and Partners are invited to enjoy the exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages in a quiet setting while the museums are closed. Ippitsusai Bunchō 一筆斎文調, Daruma and Owl, Edo period, 18th century. Woodblock print; color on paper. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of the Friends of Arthur B. Duel, 1933.4.2094

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join assistant curator Yan Yang for a talk about a sixth-century monk named Bodhidharma—a legendary icon in Buddhist art. Courtesy of Cartoon Saloon

Film 2:30 pm - 8:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for a daylong series of Irish animated films by Cartoon Saloon, offered in conjunction with the exhibition Celtic Art Across the Ages. Photo: Danni Hoshino

Gallery Talk 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA In this session, Valeria Pesce, the Craigen W. Bowen Paper Conservation Fellow, will talk about how light affects paper and media. László Moholy-Nagy, American, Light Prop for an Electric Stage (Light-Space Modulator), 1930. Aluminum, steel, nickel-plated brass, other metals, plastic, wood, and electric motor. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Sibyl Moholy-Nagy, BR56.5.

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join staff as they discuss and activate this experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer. Photo: Caitlin Cunningham Photography

Gallery Talk 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Curator Horace D. Ballard closely examines a work of art that speaks to the shifting contexts of American art. Photo: Bess Paupeck

Special Event 3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Harvard Art Museums 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA Join us for Second Saturdays Story Time, where local librarians read stories in the galleries! Pony cap, 3rd century BCE. Bronze. From Torrs, Dumfries & Galloway, Scotland. National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh, X.FA 72. © National Museums Scotland.