Featured series 
Tag: Visual Arts
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Arts & Culture
Storytelling through body language
Veteran of Blue Man Group teaches students art of building a character without saying a word
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Campus & Community
Parrot tale
‘Beyond Words’ dramatizes story of former Harvard researcher and famous bird
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Arts & Culture
‘It is your family’s journey, too’
Artist Yu-Wen Wu discusses ‘Walking to Taipei,’ a recent Museums acquisition, and how immigration, life experiences inspire her work
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Arts & Culture
Why this Lily Gladstone fan won’t see ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’
Native filmmaker discusses actor’s historic Oscar nomination, new wave of Indigenous storytelling, and his decision not to watch Scorsese epic
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Arts & Culture
Portrait of the artist as a working mother
LaToya M. Hobbs made ‘Carving Out Time’ literal
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Arts & Culture
When Picasso’s haunting portrait of war came to Harvard
Exhibit captures early reaction to one of 20th century’s most famous works of art
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Arts & Culture
Bringing their whole selves to work
242 artists (with day gigs at Harvard) display in range of media at annual show
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Campus & Community
An artistic journey comes full circle
Yun Thwaits credits Harvard Ed Portal with kick-starting her photography career. Now she’s back to exhibit her work.
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Campus & Community
Carpenter Center appoints new director
Dan Byers has been named as the John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Director of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, effective June 1.
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Campus & Community
Instagram takeover: Students highlight the arts on Harvard’s account
Undergrads Samuel Fisch and Lance Oppenheim take over Harvard’s Instagram account to highlight Arts First and the student experience of the arts at Harvard.
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Arts & Culture
Arts First at 25
Since 1992, Arts First has had a profound effect on more than just the students who go on to become professional artists.
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Arts & Culture
‘Humanity’ through a telephone by way of a telescope
A large-scale, audio-video installation uses the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a starting point to examine the fragility of humanity. “Ah humanity!” was created by Harvard artists Ernst Karel, Véréna Paravel, and Lucien Castaing-Taylor.
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Arts & Culture
An art exhibit replete with diversity
“Attached” is this year’s display of senior theses in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. Their work is on display through May 24.
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Campus & Community
Harvard Neighbors Gallery seeks artists for 2011-12 season
The Harvard Neighbors Gallery is seeking Harvard artists for the 2011-12 season. Located at Loeb House, 17 Quincy St., Harvard Neighbors provides an opportunity for Harvard-affiliated artists to show their works.
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Campus & Community
Real Colegio Complutense seeks visual artists
The Real Colegio Complutense (RCC) is calling all local visual artists to participate in its second annual art exhibit, also part of Harvard’s annual Arts First events from April 28 to May 1.
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Arts & Culture
Art by degrees
Three Harvard graduates, now practicing artists, bring home lessons learned, along with a quirky exhibit.
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Arts & Culture
Art in the making
Barberini Faun, a rare plaster model at Harvard Art Museums, offers lessons in how ancient classical sculpture was restored in the 17th century.
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Campus & Community
Native American honored
The Harvard Foundation on Dec. 16 proudly unveiled the portrait of Caleb Cheeshahteamuck, a member of the Wampanoag tribe, and the first Native American to graduate from Harvard College, in 1665.
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Arts & Culture
Students go Dada over project
A group of Harvard undergrads collaborated on period artworks that grace the Loeb’s lobby for the A.R.T.’s avant-garde musical “The Blue Flower.”
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Arts & Culture
“The Image of the Black in Western Art”
Du Bois Institute’s exhibit and mammoth publishing effort
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Campus & Community
Extension School instructor debuts online lit mag
Talking Writing, a monthly online literary magazine, has released its first issue with Harvard Extension School instructor Martha Nichols as editor in chief.
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Arts & Culture
Out of the studio, into the classroom
Seven take on teaching roles at the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies.
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Arts & Culture
‘Africans in Black & White’
The Du Bois Institute opens a new exhibit at the Rudenstine Gallery in conjunction with the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium and a 10-book series.
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Arts & Culture
Slavery in the North, and more
Du Bois Institute hosts a book party celebrating former and current fellows’ recent publications, including a title that examines little-known slavery in the North.
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Campus & Community
It’s Arts First at Harvard
The annual Arts First Festival (April 29 to May 2) will take over the sidewalks of Harvard Square and 43 venues across campus, with hundreds of student performers and arts opportunities.
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Arts & Culture
Boulders that bowl over
A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.
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Campus & Community
Arts Medalist named
Kicking off the Arts First festivities, visual artist, writer, and curator Catherine Lord ’70 will receive the 2010 Harvard Arts Medal.
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Arts & Culture
Arts at center stage
While Harvard the institution is picking up the pace on supporting the arts, Harvard the students — as ever — are busy making the arts their “irreplaceable instruments of knowledge.”
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Arts & Culture
Ripple effect
A new permanent art installation in Weld Boathouse is turning heads. Artist Ellen Kennelly ’85 took a crash course in flameworking and began these masterpieces in glass.
