Spotlight Tour: Seeing in Art and Medicine

On Sunday, Sept. 8's tour, Genesis Nam 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 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 "Shutter" (2006), a glazed stoneware sculpture by Rosemarie Trockel, and an Attic grave stele, "Woman dying in childbirth" (c. 330 BCE). Both of these works appear in the exhibition "Seeing in Art and Medicine." Please check in with museum staff at the admissions desk in Calderwood Courtyard to request to join the tour. Tours are limited to 18 people and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration is not required.

Spotlight Tours offer a chance to explore the collections of 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! Find out what Student Guides are up to anytime on Instagram, @harvardarthappens.