Visual Arts
Explore exhibitions, artists, and visual works that enrich Harvard’s cultural and academic life.
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.
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
Reframing American Art
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Do You Believe in Magic?
Former practicing magician Dan Droz ’72 turns his tricks into a career in sculpture
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.
Medieval Disinformation?
A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
Bodies in Motion
Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Curiosities: The Art of Childhood
A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Straight Lines and Odd Angles
Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions
Sargent’s Other Sides
A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent