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.
Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum
Excerpt from “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration”
Unpacking “what art does to us”
Harvard renames art film department
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
Tale of Genji Illustrated
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Profile of installation artist Liz Glynn
In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value
A re-landscaped Massachusetts Hall
Re-landscaping Massachusetts Hall, making the entrance to Harvard Yard more welcoming
by Primus VI
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Bed furnishings in early America
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.