Visual Arts
Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.
These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice
John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.
John Singleton Copley and Harvard, by Jane Kamensky
When the College commissioned Copley
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.
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.
The 1853 Homer House in Belmont
A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.
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.
Artist Ellen Harvey holds a "dark mirror" to the museum world
Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.
Harvard Portrait: Ethan Lasser
A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us