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

Painting of three pairs of worn, heavy shoes by Vincent van Gogh

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2021

A Common Underground

Redrawing community at Harvard

by Che Applewhaite

Shelby Meyerhoff's photographic self-portrait of her head and shoulders transformed with body paints into a blue-ringed octopus

Montage | January-February 2021

“We’re All Animals”

Shelby Meyerhoff’s liminal, liberating body painting

by Lydialyle Gibson

Ornate eighteenth-century dress with wide hooped skirt

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”

Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion

by Nell Porter Brown

Three people in 1950s New York

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

Picturing America

“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter Brown

Arts & Culture |

Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection

Harvard’s world-famous collection of colors can now be enjoyed from home. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of Edo era fan depicting Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba on alternate sides

Treasure | November-December 2020

An Auspicious View

This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Black and white photo of a group of Vietnamese children, titled “Schoolchildren Playing Cards”

Montage | November-December 2020

Finding Other Streets

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

Claude Monet's painting of clouds, fields, and poplars

Harvard Squared | November-December 2020

Hip-Hop Art and French Innovators

Winter exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts

by Nell Porter Brown

Harvard Squared | November-December 2020

Artful Gifts

Holiday gifts that support the arts

by Nell Porter Brown

A framed drawing titled Accompanied: Two Views of the Sea, 2017-2020, by Marilyn Pappas and Jill Slosburg-Ackerman.

Arts & Culture |

Being With the Other

A Radcliffe exhibition explores a lifetime of artwork and female friendship

by Lydialyle Gibson