Visual Arts

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

A vibrant composition of flowers, a bird, and butterflies with a distant manor under a moody sky.

Rachel Ruysch’s Lush (Still) Life

Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, a Dutch painter’s art proved a treasure trove for scientists.

by Lydialyle Gibson

The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums have entrances on both Quincy and Prescott Streets. The staff of the Museums hopes that casual passersby will filter through the building and gather in its central courtyard.

A Preview of the Harvard Art Museums

Welcoming the University community through a series of special talks and celebrations, the Harvard Art Museums re-introduce themselves.

This model city by Bodys Isek Kingelez anchors <i>Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy: From the Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection</i>.

African Artists Showcased In New Cooper Gallery at Harvard’s Hutchins Center

At the Hutchins Center, a new gallery opens with an exhibit exploring life in African cities.

Additional Photographs of the Harvard Art Museums' Galleries

Additional images of the Harvard Art Museums galleries

<i>The Light Princess</i> at ART

Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston In November and December

Events on and off campus during November and December

Oprah Winfrey accepts the W.E.B Du Bois Medal for the late writer and activist Maya Angelou.

Harvard Honors Eight Including Oprah Winfrey with W.e.b Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis

Traditional artisans, such as spinners, demonstrate their skills at Strawbery Banke.

Fall Travel to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for History, Art, Biking

Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants

The bucolic Essex River property Cogswell&rsquo;s Grant, named for the 1636 royal grant given to John Cogswell, is now a house museum open to the public.

Cogswell’s Grant, an Historic New England Property, Offers American Artifacts

Early American artifacts help animate history.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Eve at four, at Philadelphia&rsquo;s Franklin Institute

Geoffrey Biddle Takes Extraordinary Family Photographs

Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.

by Steve Potter

A Tibetan woman praying at the Boudhanath Stupa, near Kathmandu

Nepal’s Dramatic Evolution Is Captured In Photographs

Nepalese history revealed in photographs

by Nell Porter-Brown

Conservation scientist Jens Stenger explains the history of Mark Rothko’s <i>Harvard Murals</i> and the details of the conservation project in front of the now-faded <i>Panel Four.</i>

Faded Rothko Murals Renewed with Corrective Light

“Restored” by technology, Harvard Murals anchor inaugural exhibition.

by Francesca Annic...