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Explore 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.
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Just steps away from Harvard Square, the Harvard Art Museums welcome visitors from around the corner and around the world! Enjoy the many amenities that greet you upon entering the museums' expansive and beautifully restored Calderwood Courtyard on the first floor. From there, grab a coffee or snack in Jenny's Cafe or browse the many unique ...
Writing on the Wall | Index Magazine | Harvard Art Museums
It 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 ...
Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment
See how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era, encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more. What role did drawings and prints play during the Enlightenment era, from roughly 1720 to 1800? Dare to Know explores many nuances of this complex time—when political and cultural revolutions swept across Europe and ...
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The Harvard Art Museums — the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler Museums. The Harvard Art Museums bring to light the intrinsic power of art and promote critical looking and thinking for students, faculty, and the public.
Understanding Paper: Structures, Watermarks, and a Conservator’s ...
May 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 ...
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a computer sees art. Using artificial intelligence, the Harvard Art Museums has collected 53,386,516 machine-generated descriptions and tags covering 378,372 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.
American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light - Harvard Art …
May 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.
Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium - Harvard Art …
January 21, 2017–May 7, 2017 University Research Gallery, University Teaching Gallery, Harvard Art Museums. Drawing became modern in the 18th century, when it left the confines of the artist’s studio to enter an expanded field of discourse, culture, politics, and social life. This transformation is most evident in France, where drawing was ...
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Jul 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 ...