Staff Profile
Associate Director of Academic and Public Programs and Louis Miller Thayer Research Curator
laura_muir@harvard.edu / 617-384-9077
M.A., Boston University
B.A., DePauw University
Laura Muir works with Harvard faculty to facilitate teaching with the collections. She oversees curricular installations in the University Galleries as well as a public seminar series in the museums’ Art Study Center. She specializes in European modern art and the history of photography. Her current curatorial project is an exhibition devoted to the museums’ extensive collection of objects related to the Bauhaus, which will be presented in 2019.
Recent Publications
Timm Rautert: Germans in Uniform, 1974. Exhibition pamphlet. Berlin: Salon Kufsteiner Strasse, 2013.
“Lyonel Feininger: Fotografie, Archiv und Erinnerung.” Jahrbuch Der Berliner Museen. Ehemals Jahrbuch der Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 2011 53 (2013): 11–16.
Lyonel Feininger: Photographs, 1928–1939. Exhibition catalogue. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Art Museums, 2011. Winner of German Photo Book Award in Gold 2012.