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

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