Visual Arts
Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.
Making Modernity
Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
by Joseph Koerner
Existence as Resistance
Black Chronicles II, an exhibit at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery, calls for a more representative history.
by Jenny Gathright
Query on Bruno Munari
Did you take VES 130 or VES 150 during spring term 1967?
Corita Kent
A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.
by Jonathan Shaw
Not Holding Out for a Hero
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
by Sophia Nguyen
Day of the Dead
The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Curiosities: Animating a New Species at the Peabody Essex Museum
Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests
by Nell Porter-Brown
All in a Day: Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy
The South Shore's Hull Lifesaving Museum reflects more than a century of rescues at sea.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Celebrating Alice
Houghton Library exhibition chronicles 150 years of Alice in Wonderland.
by Zara Zhang
Bodies Electric
Harvard Art Museums’ installation and film series by Jesse Aron Green ’02
by Bailey Trela