Visual Arts

Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.

Rachel Ruysch’s Lush (Still) Life

Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, a Dutch painter’s art proved a treasure trove for scientists.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy at Harvard’s "the Materiality of Mourning"

A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.

by Sophia Nguyen

"I Once Knew a Girl": Carrie Mae Weems at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery

Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery

by Lily Scherlis

Harvard Business School Sculptures

At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.

by John S. Rosenberg

John Singleton Copley and Harvard, by Jane Kamensky

When the College commissioned Copley

by Jane Kamensky

Open Book: Bruegel’s Crowd Paintings

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Steampunk Art at the Fuller Craft Museum

Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Radcliffe Alumna Judith Brodsky, On Printmaking and Risk-Taking

From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”

by Violet Baron

Illustrator Andrea Tsurumi, On Making Art to "Fight the Shorthand"

In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.

by Samantha Maldonado

The 1853 Homer House In Belmont

A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Matika Wilbur Photographs of Native American Women On Exhibit at Radcliffe

Native American women are the focus of photographer Matika Wilbur’s Radcliffe exhibit. 

by Laura Levis