Museums & Collections
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