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.
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
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
“Armenian creativity, culture, and survival”
A museum reflects an ancient civilization and the modern global diaspora.
A Post-Plague Outpost
Candice Lin’s otherworldly refuge
Curating a More Diverse Campus Environment
A report and recommendations, from the FAS task force on signage and visual culture issues
"“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.