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.
Making Art Work
David Andersson’s quest to reshape the public realm
Wheat and War In Ukraine
A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.
by Isabel Mehta
Seafaring America
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
An Astronomer’s Desert Photography
Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes
Honoring a Life with Birds
A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary
Interpreting the Universe
Mildred Thompson's abstract vision
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
How the artist saw community—and the world
A Wildlife Painter’s Fantastic Beasts
Bradley Scott Davis's conservation-minded artwork
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum
The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford
by Jacob Sweet