FALL 1999 GALLERY TALKS AT THE HARVARD UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUMS

Gallery talks take place at the Fogg Art Museum, the Busch-Reisinger Museum (both at 32 Quincy Street) and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (485 Broadway) in Cambridge. All talks are included in the price of Art Museums admission ($5.00; $4.00 senior citizens; $3.00 non-Harvard students; free for children under 18, free all day Wednesdays and Saturday mornings, 10:00 a.m. to noon, and to Harvard University students and staff). Hearing assists are available for gallery talks; arrangements should be made beforehand by phoning (617) 495-8286. All group tours must pay full price and must be scheduled in advance, please call (617) 496-8576. Gallery talks through December 1999 include the following:

Saturday, September 25, 11:30 a.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Linda Norden, Barbara Fish Lee Associate Curator of Contemporary Art

Sunday, September 26, 2 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum

Saturday, October 2, 11:30 a.m., Busch Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Sarah Miller, 1998–2000 Werner and Maren Otto Curatorial Intern, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Sunday, October 3, 2 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Tawney Becker, curatorial assistant, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Saturday, October 9, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Nature as Metaphor: Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan
with Melissa Moy, assistant curator of Chinese art

Sunday, October 10, 2 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Christine Mehring, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

Saturday, October 16, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Timeless Beauty: Representing the Ideal in Neoclassical Drawing
with Anne Leonard, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

Sunday, October 17, 2 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sak&Mac245;p Sabanc&Mac245; Museum, Sabanc&Mac245; University, Istanbul
with Emine Fetvac&Mac245;, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

Sunday, October 24, 2 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Brigid Doherty, assistant professor, Department of the History of Art, The Johns Hopkins University, and cocurator of the exhibition

Saturday, October 30, 11:30 a.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Jacqueline van Rhyn, curatorial assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

Saturday, October 30, 2 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire
with Rochelle Kessler, assistant curator of Islamic and Later Indian art

Sunday, October 31, 2 p.m., Busch-Reisinger Museum
Hanne Darboven: Works 1969/1972/1983
with Tanja Maka, 1999–2001 Michalke Curatorial Intern, Busch-Reisinger Museum

Saturday, November 6, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
A Grand Legacy: Arts of the Ottoman Empire
with Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Associate Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art

Sunday, November 7, 2 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550–1650
with Michael Zell, assistant professor of art history, Boston University

Saturday, November 13, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces: The Maurice Wertheim Collection
with Lana Branton, Art Museums docent

Saturday, November 13, 2 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sak&Mac245;p Sabanc&Mac245; Museum, Sabanc&Mac245; University, Istanbul
with Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Associate Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art

Sunday, November 14, 2 p.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Art and Life in Ancient Rome
with Amy Brauer, Diane Heath Beever Associate Curator of Ancient Art

Saturday, November 20, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Nature as Metaphor: Paintings from China, Korea, and Japan
with Anne Rose Kitagawa, assistant curator for Japanese art

Sunday, November 21, 2 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
American Art after 1950
with Harry Cooper, associate curator of modern art, and Jacqueline van Rhyn, curatorial assistant, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art

Saturday, December 4, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sak&Mac245;p Sabanc&Mac245; Museum, Sabanc&Mac245; University, Istanbul
with Emine Fetvac&Mac245;, Ph.D. candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture

Saturday, December 11, 11:30 a.m., Fogg Art Museum
The Shape of Content: The Stephen Lee Taller Ben Shahn Archive at Harvard
with Deborah Martin Kao, Richard L. Menschel Curator of Photography

Sunday, December 12, 2 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550–1650
with Michael Zell, assistant professor of art history, Boston University

Saturday, December 18, 11:30 a.m., Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Letters in Gold: Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sak&Mac245;p Sabanc&Mac245; Museum, Sabanc&Mac245; University, Istanbul
with Zeynep Yurekli, Ph.D. candidate, Department of the History of Art and Architecture

Sunday, December 26, 2 p.m., Fogg Art Museum
Lifeworld: Portrait and Landscape in Netherlandish Prints, 1550–1650
Marjorie B. Cohn, Carl A. Weyerhaeuser Curator of Prints

The Harvard University Art Museums

The Harvard University Art Museums comprise the Fogg Art Museum (founded in 1891, opened in 1895), the Busch-Reisinger Museum (founded in 1902, now housed in Werner Otto Hall), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (opened in 1985). The Straus Center for Conservation is located in the Fogg. Through their collections and professional practice programs, as well as a wide array of special exhibitions, scholarly programming and publications, loans, and educational initiatives and programs, the Art Museums serve Harvard University as a catalyst for instruction and scholarship, as a training ground for future academic art historians and museum professionals, and as a general resource for its diverse and growing national and international audiences.

The collections of the Art Museums consist of more than 150,000 objects in all media, with works ranging from antiquity to the present and from Europe, North America, Africa, the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, and East Asia. The collections are divided among ten curatorial areas (Ancient and Byzantine Art and Numismatics; Architecture and Design; Asian Art; Busch-Reisinger Museum; Drawings; Islamic and Later Indian Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts; Prints; and Photographs) and are comprehensive within their areas. Developed with an emphasis on their value for teaching and research, these holdings are a unique resource in terms of breadth and quality, and are enhanced continually through gifts and acquisitions. Together, they comprise one of the finest university art collections in the world, with resources rivaling those of many major public museums.

The Art Museums are open Monday through Saturday, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., and Sunday, 1:00 p.m.–5:00 p.m. Closed national holidays. Admission is $5.00; $4.00 for senior citizens; $3.00 for students; free to children under 18 and to all individuals on Saturday mornings, 10:00 a.m.-–noon, and all day on Wednesdays.

For general information, please call (617) 495-9400. All groups of 8 or more must schedule in advance. Please call (617) 496-8576. Web site: www.artmuseums.harvard.edu. The Harvard University Art Museums are supported in part by the Massachusetts Cultural Council.