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

The Allure of Japanese Prints

Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints

by Nell Porter-Brown

Lowell, Not Coming to Dinner

A meaningful change in the images on display in the renewed Lowell House

by John S. Rosenberg

Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open

An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection” 

by Jonathan Shaw , Marina N. Bolotnikova

What a Human Should Be

Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard

by Lily Scherlis

An Empiricist on Art

Unpacking “what art does to us”

ArtWeek 2019

ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Laying It On

Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

VES’s Valedictory

Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film

by John S. Rosenberg

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova