Spotlight Tour: Good Taste, with Isabelle Halsey ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

Free

A smiling young woman, standing near academic buildings, gestures toward a orange and black ancient Greek terracotta vessel that appears to float. She wears a striped long-sleeve T-shirt.

Isabelle Halsey ’25 will discuss a variety of works that shed light on the ongoing history of what constitutes “good taste.”

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

Sunday, November 17 11AM – 11:50AM

Additional information

What makes “good taste”? And what is “taste” to begin with? On this tour, Isabelle Halsey ’25 will discuss a variety of works that shed light on the ongoing history of what is considered in good taste, a topic increasingly relevant in a world shaped by algorithms and artificial intelligence. The stops on the tour are Calyx Krater: Return of Hephaistos to Olympos (c. 500 BCE), attributed to the Kleophrades Painter; Odalisque, Enslaved Woman, and Eunuch (1839-40), an oil painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; and Woman Bending Backward (1926), an alabaster sculpture by Gaston Lachaise.

Free

A smiling young woman, standing near academic buildings, gestures toward a orange and black ancient Greek terracotta vessel that appears to float. She wears a striped long-sleeve T-shirt.

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Last updated November 13, 2024.