Spotlight Tour: Selective Memories, with Aidan Scully ’25

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Harvard Art Museums

Free

A smiling A smiling young man stands by a building, gesturing toward a marble head that appears to float.

Join Aidan Scully to explore how people have been (mis)remembered through art and what stories developed around those memories over time.

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
Maraykanka

Neighborhood

Neighborhood 9

Dates and Times

Saturday, October 12 11AM – 11:50AM

Additional information

On this tour, Aidan Scully ’25 will explore how people have been (mis)remembered through art and what stories developed around those memories over time. The stops on the tour are Bearded Man, Possibly Emperor Macrinus, a battered Roman sculpture from the early to mid-third century; a Persian tombstone from the Seljuk-Atabeg period (1117); and Henry Inman’s 1832–34 painting [Tah-Col-o-Quoit (Rising Cloud)], a copy after Charles Bird King’s now-destroyed original.

Free

A smiling A smiling young man stands by a building, gesturing toward a marble head that appears to float.

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Last updated October 8, 2024.