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

Click and Ka-ching

Corporate culture embraces photography.

by Christopher Reed

Highbrow Lingerie

Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.

New Ancient Sculpture

Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.

by Paul Gleason

Strokes in Glass

Ellen Kennelly ’85 has created a new glass sculpture for Weld Boathouse.

by Craig Lambert

Conceptualizing Small

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.

A Masterpiece Reconstructed

Sixty paintings once adorned the altarpiece of a Franciscan church in the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. View illustrations from the modern-day reconstruction.

Architecture That Imitates Life

Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.

by John Gendall

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

A brief profile of an enterprising French artist

by Laura Auricchio

Mnemonic Masks

Inspired by his Yup’ik heritage, Phillip Charette educates through his art.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Ancestral Influences

View images of Phillip Charette's masks alongside masks from the Smithsonian Institution holdings that inspired him.