Visual Arts

Botanical works from Houghton’s collections displayed in the renovated lobby’s display cases for a summer exhibition

Museums & Collections |

“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Provincetown harbor in the winter

Harvard Squared | January-February 2020

Provincetown in the Off-Off Season

Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....

by Nell Porter Brown

Photograph of art historian Shawon Kinew

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2020

Shawon Kinew

Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of artist Romare Bearden standing by an easel c. 1940

Features | January-February 2020

Romare Bearden

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

A procession of women heading toward a lake

Montage | January-February 2020

Creative Exposure

Lena Chen transforms trauma into art and performance.

by Mathilde Montpetit

A spoof passport written in Spanglish for the fictional country El Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico, with a domino in place of a national seal on its cover

Features | November-December 2019

Made Visible

The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Images from the Ballets Russes

Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars

by Nell Porter Brown

A grinning woman in traditional Nigerian dress sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by modern devices, including a power strip, a land-line telephone, and a desktop computer displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire montage.

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar

Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

Bow Street’s festive courtyard lit up at night.

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Bow Market

Somerville’s Bow Market makes its mark.

by Nell Porter Brown

Five flutists playing together on stage

University News |

Art-Making in Allston

The ArtLab debuts.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

Seeing Science

New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”

by Nell Porter Brown