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

Artful Campus

At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.

by John S. Rosenberg

Facing Harvard

When the College commissioned Copley

by Jane Kamensky

Bruegel’s Art of Mass Appeal

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Beauty from Disarray

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

by Violet Baron

Brain Food

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

by Samantha Maldonado

Winslow Homer's Early Days

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Planting Seeds of Culture

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

by Laura Levis

Seeing Spring

Artist Anna Agoston grows into her medium with her photographic studies of plants.

by Sophia Nguyen

"Art Is a Dark Mirror"

Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.

by Olivia Schwob

Ethan Lasser

A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us

by Lydialyle Gibson