Visual Arts


“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Providence, R.I.

Car-free fun in downtown Providence

by Nell Porter Brown

Congratulations, Contributors

Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist

Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy

A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.

by Sophia Nguyen

“Getting Out of the Way of the Work”

Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery

by Lily Scherlis

Artful Campus

At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.

by John S. Rosenberg

Facing Harvard

When the College commissioned Copley

by Jane Kamensky

Bruegel’s Art of Mass Appeal

Crowd painting that attracts crowds.

Steampunk’s Sole

Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.

by Nell Porter Brown

Beauty from Disarray

From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”

by Violet Baron

Brain Food

In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.

by Samantha Maldonado