Step away from the stress of the holidays and take advantage of the last weekend to see Funerary Portraits from Roman Egypt: Facing Forward, closing on December 30. While you’re here, you can visit Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment before the exhibition ends on January 15.

Plan your next visit soon (and double-check which days we’re closed for the holidays)!

Bauhaus in Action

Join curatorial fellow Clemens Ottenhausen on Tuesday, December 20, as they discuss and activate an experimental device from 1930 by László Moholy-Nagy, a Bauhaus pioneer.

Funerary Portraits in Focus

Wall Street Journal art critic Karen Wilkin chose Funerary Portraits as her pick for most informative exhibition in her wrap-up of 2022. There’s still time to see the show before it closes on December 30.

Year-End Accolades

Murray Whyte of The Boston Globe lists the Harvard Art Museums in his review of the best of 2022. He highlights both our ReFrame initiative and the Dare to Know exhibition as complicating “the dominant, straight-line narratives of Western art that museums have always told.” Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment is on view until January 15—there’s still time to explore the rich stories the exhibition reveals.

A World Within Reach

Get ready for our next exhibition, which opens January 28. A World Within Reach: Greek and Roman Art from the Loeb Collection takes us into ancient Greek and Roman society and offers fresh perspectives for reconsidering our own presence in the world.

Publication

Off the Press

Bring home the Dare to Know exhibition for the holidays with its accompanying catalogue, which The New York Times just listed as one of the best art books of 2022! The book probes developments in the natural sciences, technology, economics, and more—all through the lens of the graphic arts.

Press

Pigment Power

Curious about color? Take a look at the intersection of science and art in a recent episode of Chronicle (WCVB) exploring the Forbes Pigment Collection and the Funerary Portraits exhibition.