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American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light
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. […]
Find out moreFrom the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire
Enjoy the last few days of From the Andes to the Caribbean at the Harvard Art Museums! From the Andes to the Caribbean presents 26 paintings from the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation—the premier U.S. private collection of Spanish colonial paintings from South America and the Caribbean—together with works from the Harvard Art Museums. The exhibition […]
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In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss [May 14, 2022 – May 31, 2024]
Artwork by Leah Sobsey for “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss” exhibition, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Digitized cyanotype Artwork by Leah Sobsey for “In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An Exploration of Change and Loss” exhibition, Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cyanotype on glass with 23K gold In Search of Thoreau’s Flowers: An […]
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Summer Science Week: Ancient World Adventures
For children entering grades 3-5 Monday, July 17 through Friday, July 21; 9:30 am - 12:00 pm Visit exhibits featuring Israel, Egypt, and Mesopotamia to learn about daily life in the ancient world. Examples of activities include writing hieroglyphs, constructing mini pyramids; handling artifacts both real and through augmented reality, bejeweling a beard mask, and playing […]
Find out moreSummer Science Week: Earth Explorers
Our planet is an exciting place! Explore geology and paleontology using the museum’s collections and exhibits. Study rocks, fossils, volcanoes, and earthquakes through experiments, specimens, stories, and models.
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Brattle Theatre Presents: So This Is Paris
When a flirtatious Parisian dance team meet a doctor and his wife, the foursome become involved in a series of harmless little affairs—and tries very hard to keep them secret—to keep the spark going in their relationships. Directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch, the master of sophisticated comedy. – adapted from notes provided by Warner Bros Brattle […]
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Brattle Theatre Presents: Clash of the Wolves
Two of the most important figures to the early years of Warner Brothers were Ernst Lubitsh (see today’s co-feature) and a 100% superstar that also happened to be a German Shepherd rescued from the battlefields of WWI, Rin Tin Tin. In this exciting silent film, Rin plays the leader of a wolf pack who befriends […]
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Bev Stohl at Harvard Book Store
presenting Chomsky and Me: A Memoir in conversation with CHRISTOPHER LYDON Harvard Book Store welcomes BEV STOHL—essayist and former assistant to Noam Chomsky—for a discussion of her new memoir Chomsky and Me. She will be joined in conversation by CHRISTOPHER LYDON, host of Open Source. A Return to In-Person Events Harvard Book Store is excited to […]
Find out moreBrattle Theatre Presents: So This Is Paris
When a flirtatious Parisian dance team meet a doctor and his wife, the foursome become involved in a series of harmless little affairs—and tries very hard to keep them secret—to keep the spark going in their relationships. Directed by the great Ernst Lubitsch, the master of sophisticated comedy. – adapted from notes provided by Warner Bros Brattle […]
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Live at The Sinclair: Nanna
Starting over isn’t always easy, yet resisting change is almost always fruitless. Nanna Hilmarsdóttir knew this intuitively when she began to write the songs for her first solo album, How to Start a Garden. In these ethereal yet grounded songs, she sings of being lost and hopeful, remaining calm through apocalypses large and small, with orchestration that feels […]
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Tray Wellington Band
Growing up in western North Carolina’s Ashe County, Trajan “Tray” Wellington heard a lot of music — and from the first time he heard the banjo as a young teen, he was, he says, “hooked.” Even before he graduated from East Tennessee State University’s renowned Bluegrass, Old-Time and Country program, Wellington had earned acclaim as […]
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Brattle Theatre Presents: De Humani Corporis Fabrica
Five centuries ago, anatomist André Vésale opened up the human body to science for the first time in history. Today, DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA opens the human body to the cinema. It reveals that human flesh is an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of others. As places of care, suffering […]
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