Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery
Launched in 2005, the Neil L. and Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery is an integral part of the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research and regularly features the work of leading contemporary artists such as Jules Arthur, Vinnie Bagwell, Michelle Browder, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Lynn Davis, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Carrie Mae Weems.
104 Mount Auburn Street, Floor 3R, Cambridge, MA
The Rudenstine Gallery is currently closed as we prepare for our next exhibition.
Recent Exhibitions
In the News
Harvard Gazette, 'Putting a face on the importance of voting'
‘Vote!’ exhibition honors those who fought for civil rights
Bay State Banner, 'Say their names: ‘Call and Response’ explores horrific history of medical testing on enslaved people'
A new exhibit at Harvard University explores the horrendous histories of nonconsensual medical testing on enslaved women and girls. In 24 artworks, the female victims of these atrocities are named, honored and avenged.
Boston Globe, 'A Harvard exhibit honors enslaved women’s contributions to reproductive health'
On a group outing, Black female physicians reflected on the troubling history of gynecology.
Boston Art Review, 'Take the Day: Fourteen Exhibitions That Warrant Art-Filled Trips Across New England'
In 2019, the Resilient Sisterhood Project commissioned Jules Arthur to paint Lucy, Betsey, and Anarcha. Dr. James Marion Sims enslaved and violently experimented on these Black women in the mid-nineteenth century, and his findings led to modern gynecology...
Boston Globe, 'Call and Response examines racism in reproductive health, history'
The frame shifts on a chilling history in “Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers in Gynecology” at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research. Focus moves from a once-celebrated white man, J...
Harvard Crimson, 'Call and Response: A Narrative of Reverence to Our Foremothers in Gynecology'
The newest exhibit in The Neil L. & Angelica Zander Rudenstine Gallery at The Hutchins Center is a powerful and impressive curated collection of art dedicated to the memory of Lucy, Betsey, and Anarcha, three Black women who were enslaved and medically...
WGBH, 'Reframing the disturbing history of gynecology through art'
For more than a century, Dr. James Marion Sims was known as the father of American Gynecology, helping found the American Gynecological Association and developing new tools in surgery and women's reproductive health. But behind that is a disturbing...
Harvard Gazette, 'How Lucy, Betsey, and Anarcha became foremothers of gynecology'
Hutchins exhibit centers lives of three enslaved women who underwent unspeakable experiments without anesthesia for J. Marion Sims
