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
Visiting Hours
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
by Olivia Schwob
Gloucester’s Beauport Mansion
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
by Nell Porter-Brown
A “Declaration of Love and Guts”
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
Learning from Toys
The National Black Doll Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Inventur” Revisits Postwar Germany
Taking stock of an overlooked cohort of artists: those who, during World War II, stayed in Germany—and survived
by Sophia Nguyen
Time in Space
Renée Green’s exhibition “Within Living Memory” closes her Harvard residency.
by Lily Scherlis
“Gorey’s World”
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
by Nell Porter-Brown
Hidden Treasures
New Britain’s “Little Poland” and museum of American art
by Nell Porter-Brown
Makeda Best
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
by Sophia Nguyen
Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention
Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.
by William N. Thor...