Visual Arts

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

Two bare-knuckle boxers fight in a ring, surrounded by onlookers in 19th-century attire.

England’s First Sports Megastar

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Kara Walker's most recent work of public art, known as <i>A Subtlety,</i> made news months after its closing, when she produced a video, <i>An Audience,</i> compiling visitor reactions to the work in its final hours.

Kara Walker gives talk at Radcliffe Institute about her life and art

At the Radcliffe Institute, the artist unraveled some of the mysteries of her installation, A Subtlety.

by Sophia Nguyen

Members of the Harvard community and area residents celebrated the official opening of the Harvard Art Museums on November 16.

The renovated Harvard Art Museums open

The renovated Harvard Art Museums open

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