Visual Arts


“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Day of the Dead

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology highlights the holiday on November 1.

by Nell Porter Brown

Curiosities: Animating a New Species at the Peabody Essex Museum

Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests

by Nell Porter Brown

All in a Day: Hull’s Lifesaving Legacy

The South Shore's Hull Lifesaving Museum reflects more than a century of rescues at sea.

by Nell Porter Brown

Celebrating Alice

Houghton Library exhibition chronicles 150 years of Alice in Wonderland.

by Zara Zhang

Bodies Electric

Harvard Art Museums’ installation and film series by Jesse Aron Green ’02

by Bailey Trela

The Art of Healing

This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.

by Zara Zhang

Colonies of Clay

Christopher Adams brings ceramics to life (or vice versa).

by Olivia Schwob

Open Book: The Photographer’s Art

Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.

“Our American History”

Original works by “Golden Age” illustrators on view in Newport, Rhode Island

by Nell Porter Brown

Harvard Installs “Triangle Constellation"

A new sculpture, calibrated to help the Harvard Art Museums achieve balance

by Sophia Nguyen