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.
Harvard Graduate School of Design Class Day speaker Jenny Odell
Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
Transforming Portraiture and the World
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
Rainforest flora images by Margaret Mee
Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks
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
A Sweeping Exhibit Covers 250 Years of Japanese Art
Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.”
Performance artist and activist Lena Chen
Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.
Harvard Treasure: Hasty Pudding Posters
“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.
At the Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton: artists reflect on the opioid crisis
Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton