Dare to Know: An Introduction
When:
Thursday, Sep 15, 2022 5:30p -
7:00p
Thursday, Sep 15, 2022 5:30p -
7:00p
Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, Date Idea, Good for Groups, History, Lectures & Conferences, Photoworthy, Rainy Day Ideas, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/3BWt3hr
Join us for a series of brief presentations and a discussion about our latest special exhibition, Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment, with curators Elizabeth M. Rudy and Kristel Smentek, along with several contributors to the exhibition catalogue. Dare to Know will be on view at the Harvard Art Museums from September 16, 2022 through January 15, 2023.
Following the discussion, guests are invited to visit the exhibition on Level 3, for informal remarks by graduate student contributors to the catalogue from Harvard’s Department of History of Art and Architecture and MIT’s Department of Architecture.
Featuring approximately 150 works on paper and other related objects, Dare to Know explores how the graphic arts inspired, shaped, and gave immediacy to new ideas in the Enlightenment era by encouraging individuals to follow their own reason when seeking to know more.
An illustrated catalogue with 26 thematic essays—an A to Z exploration of the Enlightenment quest for understanding and change—accompanies the exhibition.
Speakers:
Elizabeth Saari Browne, Senior Cataloguer for the Decloux Collection, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
Edouard Kopp, John R. Eckel, Jr., Foundation Chief Curator, Menil Drawing Institute
Tamar Mayer, Assistant Professor, Art History and Curatorial Studies, Tel Aviv University
Elizabeth Rudy, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Kristel Smentek, Associate Professor of Art History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Moderated by Joachim Homann, Maida and George Abrams Curator of Drawings, Division of European and American Art, Harvard Art Museums
Free admission, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Reservations may be arranged by clicking on the event on this form beginning Monday, September 5, after 10am.
The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Doors will open at 5pm.
Please note that face coverings are optional in all spaces in the Harvard Art Museums. The museums will make disposable masks available for visitors who do not bring their own. Please review our general visitor policies, including details on COVID-related precautions.
Limited complimentary parking is available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.
