Past Events

  • 2023 Jun 22

    Live Matter: Contemporary Artist On Plants in Practice

    7:00pm to 8:30pm

    Location: 

    Calderwood Hall | Isabella Gardner Museum

    On the opening evening of Presence of Plants in Contemporary Art, join acclaimed exhibiting artists Cerith Wyn Evans and Natalie Jeremijenko in conversation with exhibition curators Pieranna Cavalchini, the Gardner’s Tom and Lisa Blumenthal Curator of Contemporary Art, and Charles Waldheim, the Gardner’s Ruettgers Curator of Landscape and Irving Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design...

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  • 2023 Jun 01

    The City Talks: Telling Our Stories

    7:00pm to 8:15pm

    Location: 

    Edward H. Linde Gallery (Gallery 168) | Boston MFA

    Black art can be a vehicle for storytelling, allowing generations to pass both trauma and triumph down through time. Although Black artists have been foundational creators of America’s history and culture, they are often unacknowledged contributors to the nation’s story. Join this conversation with Boston community leaders about what it means to have a “seat at the table” and why representation is vital in art institutions.

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  • 2023 May 31

    Curatorial Research Interns

    (All day)

    June–August, 2023

    Harvard FAS CAMLab seeks to build a diverse cohort of current Harvard students for a summer program, through which students will gain direct experience in design-focused curating. Reporting to CAMLab’s Assistant Curator, Curatorial Research Interns will contribute directly to a forthcoming exhibition, provisionally titled The Metroverse. The exhibition will focus on emerging platforms for urban data visualization and analysis, and it will engage curatorial strategies in the field of art and technology. Over the course of the...

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  • 2023 May 24

    Panel Discussion: How Structures Govern

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Virtual

    Keller Easterling, Eve Meltzer, and Sung Tieu will convene in a virtual panel discussion exploring structural components as a power to regulate.

    Artist Sung Tieu will have her first US debut solo exhibitions on view concurrently at Amant and MIT List Visual Arts Center that centers her research of both physical and psychological realms of social and political powers that are articulated through space and architectural elements. This panel discussion will take a closer look at the legibility of infrastructure in the built environment, the intersection of conceptualism and...

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  • 2023 May 21

    What They Did: Coomaraswamy’s Female Collaborators

    1:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161) | Boston MFA

    The MFA’s South Asian art collection was founded by the scholar and collector Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Although Coomaraswamy is a monumental and well-studied figure, much less has been written about the ways in which he worked with others, in particular his female colleagues who were accomplished writers, artists, dancers, and musicians. This lecture highlights the contributions of these collaborators and brings greater clarity to the roles of women in the growing awareness of Indian art and culture in the early 20th century.

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  • 2023 May 18

    Michaelina Wautier: The Woman Who Painted ‘The Five Senses’

    7:00pm to 8:00pm

    Location: 

    Harry and Mildred Remis Auditorium (Auditorium 161) | Boston MFA

    The 17th-century Dutch artist Michaelina Wautier was exceptional in every way. Her paintings demonstrate a remarkable breadth, ranging from flower garlands, portraits, and genre scenes of everyday life to religious and mythological pictures in both small and large scales. The variety of her iconography indicates an outstanding intellectual education, and the superiority of her style hints at an excellent artistic training. Recently, Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo have lent the five fully signed and dated paintings comprising Wautier’s series The Five Senses (1650) to...

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  • 2023 May 18

    Libète: Celebrating Haitian Art & Community

    5:00pm to 9:00pm

    Location: 

    Throughout the Museum

    Inspired by celebrated artist Betye Saar’s sketchbooks of Haiti and in honor of Haitian Heritage Month, join us for a special evening of performance, live music, art-making, and conversation. Celebrating themes of freedom, liberty, and empowerment, this evening will showcase the local talent of Haitian-American artists from across Boston, featuring Cambridge-based contemporary dance company Jean Appolon Expressions (JAE), renowned Haitian composer and Afrofuturist Val Jeanty, and other guest artists.

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  • 2023 May 18

    Piece by Piece: Mosaic Artifacts in Byzantium and the Ancient Americas

    (All day)

    Location: 

    Dumbarton Oaks | Oak Room

    This workshop and museum colloquium will bring together art historians, archaeologists, anthropologists, curators, conservators, and scientists to consider the production, use, and meaning of mosaic artifacts in Byzantium and the ancient Americas.

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