Museums & Collections


Historic Humor

University Archives to preserve Harvard Lampoon materials

A Cultural Escape

The renewed community life of a grand Cape Cod estate

by Nell Porter Brown

A Gate of Whimsy

At Houghton and Lamont libraries, a creative new entry into the Yard

by Jacob Sweet

Seeing Life

Re-engaging with nature alongside the director of the Arnold Arboretum

by William Friedman

Cartography Animated

The era of imaginative mapmaking

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings

“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

Our Masked Selves

Richard Nielsen: “This is Not a Gag,” at MASS MoCA

by Nell Porter Brown

Peabody Museum Discovers Possible Slave Remains in Its Collections

“We must begin to confront the reality of a past in which academic curiosity and opportunity overwhelmed humanity,” Harvard president Lawrence Bacow wrote. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”

Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion

by Nell Porter Brown

Picturing America

“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter Brown

Cassandra Albinson

A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.

by Jonathan Shaw