Arts & Culture
“Edifying and Beautiful”
Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library
by Jack R. Trapanick
Birds in Hand
A trip to Mass Audubon’s unique art museum
by Nell Porter Brown
Dress for Excess
Fashion collides with high art at the Peabody Essex Museum.
by Nell Porter Brown
The Everyday Dignity of Helen Zughaib’s Refugees
The Lebanese-American painter depicts people who pay the price of war.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
Contextualizing Inauguration Day through Presidential Portraits
Curator Ethan Lasser invites museum visitors to critically evaluate how our nation’s leaders are depicted in art.
by Oset Babür
Visitors, Not Viewers
At Radcliffe, a touchable exhibit plays with perception.
by Lily Scherlis
An Orphaned Sewing Machine
The multifaceted global and interdisciplinary impact of a useful object
Honoring Our Contributors
Celebrating distinguished authors and artists
In Flight
A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.
by Maciek Nabrdalik
Celebrating Cinema
Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive
by Nell Porter Brown
Providence, R.I.
Car-free fun in downtown Providence
by Nell Porter Brown