Visual Arts
Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.
Pony Plunges
Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea
by Max J. Krupnick
Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings
“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
Our Masked Selves
Richard Nielsen: “This is Not a Gag,” at MASS MoCA
by Nell Porter-Brown
Culture in the Cold War
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Encounters at the Border
Photographer Morgan Smith ’60 documents life on the precarious precipice between Mexico and the United States.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Cassandra Albinson
A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.
by Jonathan Shaw
A Common Underground
Redrawing community at Harvard
by Che Applewhaite
“We’re All Animals”
Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting
by Lydialyle Gibson
“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”
Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion
by Nell Porter-Brown
Picturing America
“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art
by Nell Porter-Brown
Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection
Harvard’s world-famous collection of colors can now be enjoyed from home.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova