Harvard Art Happens

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Come participate in a live zoom tour about “decay and regeneration” Thursday at 12 Noon-12:30pm EDT! Along the way Mei ’21 will take you to one of the best loved spots in the museums – Renée Sintenis’s “Daphne” – and explore how desire can become destructive. Free and open to everyone, it’s accessible via the link on our tour page. https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/article/virtual-student-guide-tours

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Debuting her new tour is senior guide Shayla '18. Come to the Harvard Art Museums this Saturday at 11am to participate in "Working Hard or Hardly Working: Copywright, Ownership, and Artists' Labor" around the collections!

Here's our first full weekend of tours! Be sure to stop by at any or all of these, starting today at 2pm!

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Art Rental Program Lowers Fees, Draws Students | News | The Harvard Crimson As students put the finishing touches on their dorms, the Harvard Art Museums are offering an opportunity to supplement posters and string lights with original artwork.

Following student guides and board members around the world this summer! Lots of art to see :)

Hey everyone! Today we're starting our summer series! We'll be following student guides and board members throughout the summer, sharing interesting art and architecture they encounter around the world. If you'd like to take part, use the hashtag and your photo could be featured!
Today's post is from student guide Isabella '19. This photo was taken at Storm King Art Center, NY, one of the world's leading sculpture parks. Although originally intended to be a museum geared towards Hudson River School painting, the non-profit park opened with the purchase of 13 modern sculpture works by David Smith (1906-65).

The amazing Maille Radford '17, Student Board Member and intern at the Straus Center, who combines her passion for the arts and science!

Harvard College graduate gets joint degrees in art and science Maille Radford, the first student to graduate with joint degrees in chemistry and history of art and architecture, has her sights set on a museum career.

Meet Student Board Member Rebecca Dolan '19! Rebecca is an English concentrator and lives in Adams House. Outside of the museums, she is an exec on The Harvard Crimson's Arts board and is also involved with The Harvard Advocate's Art board. She tells us that her favorite museum is the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York because she used to live a block away from it this past summer and would stop in often.

Here, Rebecca stands next to her favorite work at the Harvard Art Museums, which is Renée Sintenis' Daphne (1930). She says on it: "Harvard is of course an intellectual destination, but it's also an aesthetic one. Especially if you're willing to see it as such. This room in particular does an impressive job of showing sculpture in a way that allows it to breathe with the campus around us. My favorite piece in here is 'Daphne.' She offers an interesting look at art that came out of Germany in the interwar period. What does this bronze cast of a mythological nymph tell us about how artists were processing and making sense of that trauma?"

To find out why she loves being a Student Board Member, head over to our Instagram !

Thanks, Harvard Art Museums!

Not Your Typical Tour Guides “Get up close,” urged Spencer Glesby, a new student guide at the Harvard Art Museums and a Harvard College sophomore. “This is a really wonderful painting to immerse yourself in.” A dozen individuals quietly approached and gazed at Gustav Klimt’s Pear Tree (1903/18). After the visitors shared their…