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

Montage | March-April 2023

Made You Look

Magician-turned-designer-turned sculptor Dan Droz

by Nancy Walecki

Dumb Menakaya standing on campus with her camera

University People | March-April 2023

Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy

The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead

Digital reconstruction of two medieval tiles

Harvard Squared | March-April 2023

Medieval Disinformation?

A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.

by Nell Porter Brown

Photo of the rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s

Features | January-February 2023

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Repeated images of a ballet dancer warming up amid a teal background

Harvard Squared | January-February 2023

Bodies in Motion

Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

by Nell Porter Brown

painting of twins asleep on a NYC subway, nestled against their caregiver

Harvard Squared | November-December 2022

Curiosities: The Art of Childhood

A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

by Nell Porter Brown

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Harvard Squared | November-December 2022

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter Brown

A collection of abstract geometric paintings hang above a white couch

Montage | November-December 2022

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

John Singer Sargent self-portrait, 1892

Montage | November-December 2022

Sargent’s Other Sides

A revealing new biography of John Singer Sargent

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

Montage | November-December 2022

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui