Gallery Talk: Disrupt the View

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Harvard Art Museums

Free

A photograph of two porcelain sculptures, one a figural sculpture and the other an abstract sculpture.

Join Lynette Roth for a closer look at Arlene Shechet’s one-of-a-kind installation Disrupt the View at the Harvard Art Museums.

No application or registration needed.

Cost

This Event is free!

Please check in with museum staff at the Visitor Services desk in the Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the gallery talk. Space is limited, and talks are available on a first-come, first-served basis; no registration is required.

Location

  • In-person only.

Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

Thursday, April 24 12:30PM – 1PM

Additional information

In her installation Disrupt the View: Arlene Shechet at the Harvard Art Museums, on view through July 6, 2025, contemporary sculptor Arlene Shechet presents her recent work alongside historical German, Japanese, and Chinese porcelain objects from the Harvard Art Museums collections.

Join curator Lynette Roth as she talks about Shechet’s artistic process, her collaborations with German porcelain manufactory workers, and how the artist recontextualized these remarkable objects to speak to the larger history of labor, class, and global trade.

Free

A photograph of two porcelain sculptures, one a figural sculpture and the other an abstract sculpture.

Thursday, April 24 12:30PM – 1PM

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Last updated April 17, 2025.