Visual Arts


“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Seven-Hundred-Year-Old Secrets

A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.

by Nina Pasquini

Picasso Reinterpreted

A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”

Painting with Flashlights

Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night.

by Nell Porter Brown

The Comic-Book Storyteller

Graphic novelist Amy Chu

by S.I. Rosenbaum

Africa in Clay

Pliable arts from across the continent

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

The Allure of Japanese Prints

Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints

by Nell Porter Brown

Lowell, Not Coming to Dinner

A meaningful change in the images on display in the renewed Lowell House

by John S. Rosenberg

Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open

An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection” 

by Jonathan Shaw , Marina N. Bolotnikova

What a Human Should Be

Exploring the Bauhaus and Harvard

by Lily Scherlis