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

Curiosities: The Art of Childhood

A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

by Nell Porter-Brown

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

Sargent’s Other Sides

A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter-Brown

Truer than Reality

Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly

Making Art Work

David Andersson’s quest to reshape the public realm

by Nell Porter-Brown

Wheat and War in Ukraine

A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.

by Isabel Mehta

An Astronomer's Desert Photography

Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes

by Nancy Walecki