Visual Arts

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

England’s First Sports Megastar

A collection of illustrations capture a boxer’s triumphant moment. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

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

Anna Agoston's photography, teeming with life

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

by Sophia Nguyen

Artist Ellen Harvey holds a "dark mirror" to the museum world

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

by Olivia Schwob

Harvard Portrait: Ethan Lasser

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

by Lydialyle Gibson

A Harvard presidential portrait rediscovered, and an art gallery of a cemetery

A president who tippled, and an eternally faithful dog

Harvard Art Museums appoints Martha Tedeschi as new Cabot director

Hailing from the Art Institute of Chicago, Tedeschi will assume the role next July. 

by Sophia Nguyen