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

At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum

Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections

Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh

Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art

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

by Lydialyle Gibson

Pudding Pots & Parody

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

Visions of the Opioid Crisis

Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton

by Nell Porter-Brown

Provincetown in the Off-Off Season

Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....

by Nell Porter-Brown

Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Romare Bearden

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

Creative Exposure

Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.

by Mathilde Montpetit

Made Visible

The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders

by Marina N. Bolotnikova