Ongoing
Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art

Crossing Lines, Constructing Home: Displacement and Belonging in Contemporary Art

Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Crossing Lines, Constructing Home investigates two parallel ideas: national, political, and cultural conceptions of boundaries and borders; and the evolving hybrid spaces, identities, languages, and beliefs created by the movement of peoples.

While offering historical context and a consideration of the forces that commonly drive migration, such as political instability, natural disasters, and oppression linked to race, religion, culture, and class, the exhibition presents a more complicated narrative about immigration and displacement than the usual rhetoric that dominates the public sphere and polarizes debate. Crossing Lines unsettles accepted notions of what constitutes a boundary and of what characterizes the migrant or refugee experience—in part by exploring how culture can persist and be embraced despite displacement. Acknowledging passage as a space of both trauma and transformation, the exhibition opens up new ways of understanding the immigrant experience.

Admission Info

$20
Adults

$18
Seniors (65+)

Free
All students with a valid ID

Free
Harvard ID holders (plus one guest)

Free
Harvard Art Museums Members

Free
Youth under 18

Free
Cambridge residents (proof of residency required)

Free
MTA (Massachusetts Teachers Association) Members (valid ID required)

Free
Massachusetts residents, Saturdays from 10am–noon (proof of residency required)

Free
Active duty military personnel, plus up to five family members, in collaboration with NEA Blue Star Museums (year round)

Free
Individuals with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits or an Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) card, plus up to five family members

Phone: 617-495-9400

Email: am_info@harvard.edu

Dates & Times

2019/09/06 - 2020/01/05

Location Info

Special Exhibitions Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

Accessibility Info

The Harvard Art Museums are accessible for visitors using wheelchairs and other mobility devices. Accessible entrances are located on Quincy Street, Broadway, and Prescott Street. A limited number of wheelchairs are available for loan in the lobby free of charge. Wheelchair accessible seating and assistive-listening devices are available in our lecture halls. Large text (18 point font) Visitor Guides are available in print and via iPads on loan from our Admissions desk for visitors who are visually impaired. We also offer hand held magnifiers.

Visitors arriving via paratransit van or similar are recommended to use the entrance on Broadway, which allows a right-side exit from the vehicle. Accessible parking is available in the Broadway Garage, located at 5 Felton Street. (Please note that the garage has a 6 ft. 8 in. height limit.) Parking permits can be purchased online; visitors without an assigned code can use “Visitor to Campus” as their department and 7700 as their department code in the online ordering system.

Sign language interpretation may be available upon request; please contact Visitor Services to request sign language interpretation, at least two weeks prior to the program. Visual description tours for visitors who are blind or partially sighted also may be available upon request; please contact Visitor Services at least two weeks prior to the date of your visit.