Museums and Collections

An Enchanted “Colorful Realm”

In a video interview, Yukio Lippit explains the beauty of Japanese paintings displayed in the Cherry Blossom Festival centennial exhibit.
2.17.12

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

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

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
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