Spotlight Tour: Seeing in Art and Medicine, with Genesis Nam ’24
When:
Sunday, Nov 12, 2023 11:00a -
11:50a
Sunday, Nov 12, 2023 11:00a -
11:50a
Where:
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138
Admission:
FREE
Hosted by:
Categories:
Accessible Spots, Art, History, University
Event website:
https://bit.ly/49jRzYp
On this tour, Genesis Nam ’24 will put visitors in the shoes of the radiologists who have participated in the Seeing in Art and Medical Imaging program, which is offered by the Harvard Art Museums in partnership with Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. The program promotes empathy, mindfulness, and tolerance for ambiguity in the medical community through conversations about works of art, focused on themes such as care, objectivity, and power. The stops on the tour are Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin (1888), a painting by Vincent Van Gogh; Odalisque, Slave, and Eunuch (1839–40), a painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres; and Nature Study (1986), a marble sculpture by Louise Bourgeois.
Either before or after the tour, be sure to visit the Seeing in Art and Medicine exhibition on Level 3, which examines objects from across the collections through the lens of the medical humanities and the human questions that doctors face in their daily work.
Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of the Harvard Art Museums through the eyes of a Harvard student. Free and open to the public, these tours start outside the museum shop on Saturdays and Sundays at 11am and 2pm. Drop in and join the conversation! And find out what the Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram @harvardarthappens.
Please check in with museum staff at the Admissions 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.
