Visual Arts


“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Winslow Homer's Early Days

A mansion promotes artist Winslow Homer’s roots in Belmont, Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter Brown

Planting Seeds of Culture

Native American women are the focus of photographer Matika Wilbur’s Radcliffe exhibit. 

by Laura Levis

Seeing Spring

Artist Anna Agoston grows into her medium with her photographic studies of plants.

by Sophia Nguyen

"Art Is a Dark Mirror"

Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.

by Olivia Schwob

Ethan Lasser

A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us

by Lydialyle Gibson

Jolly Tippler, Good Dog

A president who tippled, and an eternally faithful dog

Martha Tedeschi to Lead Harvard Art Museums

Hailing from the Art Institute of Chicago, Tedeschi will assume the role next July. 

by Sophia Nguyen

Not Made for Walkin'

Upward of 150 haute couture and historic shoes are on display in Manchester, N.H.

by Nell Porter Brown

At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display

The Harvard Art Museums' new exhibition of Australian art aims to make indigenous lives “visible.”

by Sophia Nguyen

In "Art of Jazz," A Multivocal Exhibit

A “call and response” between the Harvard Art Museums and the Cooper Gallery

by Sophia Nguyen