An Enchanted “Colorful Realm”
In a video interview, Yukio Lippit explains the beauty of Japanese paintings displayed in the Cherry Blossom Festival centennial exhibit.
Museums and Collections
Orderly Living
A medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guides to diet and health.
2.17.12
A Blossoming Centennial
Masterworks of Japanese painting on display for the Cherry Blossom Festival’s centennial
2.17.12
Harvard Library Reorganization: President, Provost, Protests
The administration says reorganizations, and staff reductions, will support better user experiences and a stronger system.
2.10.12
Town-Hall Meetings Report on Harvard Library Reorganization
Library leaders tell staff that restructuring will require smaller workforce.
1.20.12
Tiny Brontës
Miniature manuscript books by Charlotte Brontë
12.16.11
Envy in Hand
Is this a dagger which I see before me…? Not primarily.
10.19.11
Spheres of Knowledge
An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.
10.19.11
Sundials in Early Modern Europe
Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials
10.11.11
The Seven Liberal Arts
Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts
10.11.11
Inventions in Early Modern Europe
Images from Stradanus’s “Nova reperta,” a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist
10.11.11
Nightmares
A new Archives website offers today’s undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.
9.1.11
High-Tech Art Sleuthing
Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.
8.19.11
Unwhole
Dysfunctional sink with body parts
6.16.11
Gilded Nut
A coconut with Bible stories
4.17.11
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