Visual Arts


The Picture of Freedom

A Boston Athenaeum exhibit explores an abolitionist with Harvard ties.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Artful Gifts

Holiday gifts that support the arts

by Nell Porter Brown

Being With the Other

A Radcliffe exhibition explores a lifetime of artwork and female friendship

by Lydialyle Gibson

How Harvard Handled the 1918 Flu Pandemic

Fall semester interrupted, a century ago

by Matteo Wong

Orchestrating Attention: “The Most Substantive Work You Can Do”

Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.

by Nell Porter Brown

Transforming Portraiture and the World

Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.

by Julia Ostmann

An Amazon Artist

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Staff Pick: Gold Rush Days

“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum

At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum

Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections

Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh

Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see

by Nell Porter Brown

A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art

Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.” 

by Lydialyle Gibson