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.

by Schuyler Velasco

Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker Jenny Odell

Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Transforming Portraiture and the World

Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.

by Julia Ostmann

Rainforest flora images by Margaret Mee

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

American Gold Rush, Peabody Essex Museum

“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum

At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum

Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections

Bruce Museum’s spring shows

Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Sweeping Exhibit Covers 250 Years of Japanese Art

Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.” 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Romare Bearden profiled by Robert G. O'Meally

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

Performance artist and activist Lena Chen

Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.

by Mathilde Montpetit