Spotlight Tour: Out of This World, with Arielle Frommer ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

A smiling young woman stands in a campus quad gesturing toward a painting that appears to be floating on top of the balustrade behind her. The brushstrokes coalesce into a bluish scene of trains at a smoke-filled station.

Arielle Frommer will explore how an understanding of astronomy can enhance one’s perspective on art.

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 tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and 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

.: Saturday, October 5, 2PM – 2:50PM.

Additional information

On this tour, Arielle Frommer ’25 will explore the intersection of art and astronomy in three works: Light Prop for an Electric Stage [Light-Space Modulator] (1930), a reflective kinetic sculpture by László Moholy-Nagy, who had been a professor at the Bauhaus in Germany; Prince Shōtoku at Age Two (datable to about 1292), an iconic Buddhist sculpture from Japan; and The Gare Saint-Lazare: Arrival of a Train (1877), a large canvas that Claude Monet painted in Paris, soon after he began painting in the Impressionist style. 

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A smiling young woman stands in a campus quad gesturing toward a painting that appears to be floating on top of the balustrade behind her. The brushstrokes coalesce into a bluish scene of trains at a smoke-filled station.

.: Saturday, October 5, 2PM – 2:50PM.

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