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

Dumb Menakaya standing on campus with her camera

Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy

The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead

Digital reconstruction of two medieval tiles

Medieval Disinformation?

A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Repeated images of a ballet dancer warming up amid a teal background

Bodies in Motion

Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

by Nell Porter-Brown

painting of twins asleep on a NYC subway, nestled against their caregiver

Curiosities: The Art of Childhood

A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

by Nell Porter-Brown

A collection of abstract geometric paintings hang above a white couch

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

John Singer Sargent self-portrait, 1892

Sargent’s Other Sides

A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

colorful painting detailing birch trees

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter-Brown