“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Staff Pick: Gold Rush Days

“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum

At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum

Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections

A Mind of One’s Own

Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson

by Nell Porter Brown

Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh

Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see

by Nell Porter Brown

Boston in Motion

An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.

by Drew Pendergrass

A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art

Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.” 

by Lydialyle Gibson

“Cut Missal Up…”

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

The Rittase Touch

What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932

by Drew Pendergrass

Romare Bearden

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

Visions of the Opioid Crisis

Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton

by Nell Porter Brown