Harvard Art Museums Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Read about our photography curator Makeda Best's new book, "Elevate the Masses: Alexander Gardner, Photography, and Democracy in Nineteenth-Century America," in @caavisual! https://bit.ly/3uleOPq (📸 by Andrew Joseph Russell, c. 1861-1865) https://t.co/KDAKoURKCB

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In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we hope you'll read our most recent Index article about Boston-based photographer Lou Jones, who spent years capturing the gaze and humanity of death row inmates across the United States. https://t.co/7B8qIxfQvF https://t.co/8h4VHPEcjk

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Join Charles Saumarez Smith, former director of the National Portrait Gallery and the National Gallery and author of "The Art Museum in Modern Times," to discover how the idea of the art museum has evolved over the last century. Wednesday May 5 at 2pm: https://bit.ly/3eNwyK9 https://t.co/FJFqXLF4n7

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"Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of Enlightenment" is a @nytimes Best Art Book of 2022! Read the full round-up here: https://t.co/WfYIoQxoap https://t.co/u2fsS6DMB6

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Join @Harvard_Natives TONIGHT at 6pm for a lecture by Tommy Orange, a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma and the author of "There There," one of the New York Times’ top books of 2018 and a Pulitzer Prize Finalist. https://t.co/3CGXJAuHVH https://t.co/GazPoylXHB

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"Art by the Book," on view through June 4, is the first installation of woodblock-printed painting manuals at the Harvard Art Museums. In this interview, curator Yuhua Ding discusses the installation in detail. https://t.co/zO3xTY8rRq https://t.co/AgjwQLTw2N