Arts & Culture

Botanical works from Houghton’s collections displayed in the renovated lobby’s display cases for a summer exhibition

Museums & Collections |

“Edifying and Beautiful”

Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library

by Jack R. Trapanick

Provincetown harbor in the winter

Harvard Squared | January-February 2020

Provincetown in the Off-Off Season

Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....

by Nell Porter Brown

Cozy Map Room Tea Lounge with books, bar, and vaulted ceiling

Harvard Squared | January-February 2020

Eat, Drink, Read

The Boston Public Library’s cozy winter hideout

by Nell Porter Brown

A spoof passport written in Spanglish for the fictional country El Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico, with a domino in place of a national seal on its cover

Features | November-December 2019

Made Visible

The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of worker between two enormously high stacked bookshelves at the Harvard Depository

Montage | November-December 2019

“The Luckiest Books”

A visit to the Harvard Depository

Alumni | November-December 2019

Back to the Future

Promoting craftsmanship and agrarian skills in an idyllic New Hampshire setting

by Nell Porter Brown

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Treasure | November-December 2019

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Images from the Ballets Russes

Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars

by Nell Porter Brown

A grinning woman in traditional Nigerian dress sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by modern devices, including a power strip, a land-line telephone, and a desktop computer displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire montage.

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar

Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

Photo of the colonial-era Fairbanks House in Dedham, Massachusetts

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

The Air of Contentment

Dedham’s Fairbanks House: “the oldest wood-frame structure still standing in North America”

by Nell Porter Brown

A child’s horse-drawn carriage from 1907

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

For the Love of Horses

Equestrian life and sports on the North Shore

by Nell Porter Brown