Visual Arts
Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.
There’s a New Sargent Painting in Town
Harvard Art Museums restores a rare glimpse of an American master.
An intellectual history of the Cold War era
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
An innovative gate for Harvard Yard
At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard
by Jacob Sweet
An organismic biologist praises reawakening to the natural world
Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum
A monumental book reveals a monumental work of art
Nicholas Callaway publishes the Sistine Chapel in closeup.
How cartographers filled “empty” space with animals
The era of imaginative mapmaking
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion”
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
“This is Not a Gag,” MASS MoCA
Richard Nielsen: “This is Not a Gag,” at MASS MoCA
Photographer Morgan Smith's Images and Encounters at the Mexican Border
Photographer Morgan Smith ’60 documents life on the precarious precipice between Mexico and the United States.
Profile of body-paint artist Shelby Meyerhoff
Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
Peabody Essex Museum fashion exhibit
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion