Visual Arts
“Edifying and Beautiful”
Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library
by Jack R. Trapanick
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
Shawon Kinew
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Romare Bearden
Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988
by Robert G. O'Meally