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

Peabody Museum

University News |

"A Very Intimate and Painful Reckoning"

Dean Claudine Gay on the Native American hair clippings in Harvard’s holdings

by Lydialyle Gibson

Photo of the rising artist as a student at Rhode Island School of Design in the 1950s

Features | January-February 2023

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

Three men juggle while roller-skating

Treasure | January-February 2023

The Forgotten Jugglers

Vaudeville's mysterious Ader Brothers

by Nancy Walecki

Repeated images of a ballet dancer warming up amid a teal background

Harvard Squared | January-February 2023

Bodies in Motion

Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

by Nell Porter Brown

liriodendron tulipifera of Eastern North America and liriodendron chinense of Eastern Asia

Humanities & Arts |

The Power of Plants

Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks

by Jonathan Shaw

painting of twins asleep on a NYC subway, nestled against their caregiver

Harvard Squared | November-December 2022

Curiosities: The Art of Childhood

A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

by Nell Porter Brown

George Reisner, 1924

Features | November-December 2022

George Reisner

Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942

by Peter Der Manuelian

Tempera portrait of Egyptian woman

Treasure | November-December 2022

Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits

Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit uncovers paintings’ mysterious origins.

by Nancy Walecki

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Harvard Squared | November-December 2022

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter Brown

glass and steel addition to a traditional brick building that houses the Mattatuck Museum

Harvard Squared | November-December 2022

Downtown Oasis

Connecticut’s Mattatuck Museum

by Nell Porter Brown