Visual Arts

Arts First festival sign on a pole in Harvard Yard

University News |

A New Chapter for Harvard Arts

The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

Montage | November-December 2022

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

colorful painting detailing birch trees

Harvard Squared | September-October 2022

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter Brown

A black and white cartoon shows a computer-user, with Earth’s globe for a head, stares into a screen, while spiders labeled “hate,” “misinformation,” “fear,” and “lies” crawl across his body, wrapping him in their webs.

Montage | September-October 2022

Truer than Reality

Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly

David Andersson standing among his colorful painted portraits

Alumni | September-October 2022

Making Art Work

David Andersson’s quest to reshape the public realm

by Nell Porter Brown

Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Holodomor Memorial

University News |

Wheat and War in Ukraine

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

by Isabel Mehta

Green and Colorado River junction

Montage | July-August 2022

An Astronomer's Desert Photography

Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes

by Nancy Walecki

Landscape painting of wide sky and golden field with trees in the distance

Harvard Squared | July-August 2022

Honoring a Life with Birds

A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary 

by Nell Porter Brown

Abstract image of swirls and darts in browns, reds, and grays

Harvard Squared | July-August 2022

Interpreting the Universe

Mildred Thompson's abstract vision

by Nell Porter Brown

Harvard Squared | July-August 2022

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

by Craig Lambert

The seven 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

Graduate & Professional Schools |

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars

Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.

by Jacob Sweet