Visual Arts
Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.
At Harvard’s Peabody Museum, Photos Reimagine Iranian History
Artist Azadeh Akhlaghi reconstructs moments of Iranian political upheaval in a series of meticulously staged images.
Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December
Events on and off campus during November and December
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
Fall travel to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for history, art, biking
Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants
Cogswell's Grant, an Historic New England property, offers American artifacts
Early American artifacts help animate history.
Geoffrey Biddle takes extraordinary family photographs
Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.
by Steve Potter
Nepal's dramatic evolution is captured in photographs
Nepalese history revealed in photographs
Faded Rothko murals renewed with corrective light
“Restored” by technology, Harvard Murals anchor inaugural exhibition.
Quilts are art, as the International Quilt Study Center and Museum proves
Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls
Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students
New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”
Robert PIllsbury crafts art works from layers of paper
Paper artist Robert Pillsbury ’61 makes his work from stacked cut sheets of paper.