Visual Arts

Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.

A vase of yellow flowers on a table next to an orange and a glass.

There’s a New Sargent Painting in Town

Harvard Art Museums restores a rare glimpse of an American master.

by Schuyler Velasco

“Joyous Protest Posters”

The Royal Chicano Air Force’s activist art at Houghton Library

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

The Untold Story of Watercolors

Harvard Art Museums' exhibit highlights unsung facets of American watercolor.

by Nancy Walecki

A live sketch from Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder trial. Daybell is in the middle between two men, all looking somber.

Something from Nothing

Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin

by Max J. Krupnick

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of Sarah Kariko ’90 operating a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press

The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.

by Craig Lambert

Realistic diorama of an old growth forest

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

by Nancy Walecki

Pick up trucks filled with colorful flowers

Trading Finance for Flowers

Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Boardwalk by Taunton River and Braga Bridge overhead

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

by Nell Porter-Brown

portrait of young girl surrounded by ornate gold-painted frame

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter-Brown

Do You Believe in Magic?

Former practicing magician Dan Droz ’72 turns his tricks into a career in sculpture

by Nancy Walecki