Humanities & Arts
A New Chapter for Harvard Arts
The Office for the Arts turns 50, and its longtime director steps down.
by Lydialyle Gibson
What Counts
Wanted: Big ideas from the humanities
A Crossroads in Biomedicine?
Uncertainty and humanity could be key to addressing the reproducibility crisis.
by Bennett McIntosh
VES’s Valedictory
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
by John S. Rosenberg
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Native Modern
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
The Juggler’s Tale
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
by Sophia Nguyen
From the Archives: Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
by Craig Lambert
James Baldwin’s America, in Photos
A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Durba Mitra
Harvard’s first professor appointed solely in gender studies
by Marina N. Bolotnikova