Beds were set up for Spanish flu patients outside the Harvard-affiliated Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in 1918.
Photograph courtesy of the Brigham and Women's Hospital Archives
Fall semester interrupted, a century ago
6.23.20
Jenny Odell
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Artist Jenny Odell speaks at the Graduate School of Design Class Day ceremony.
5.28.20
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(1 of 5) Untitled, Toni Morrison, 2006 by Robert McCurdy
© Robert McCurdy/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Gift of Ian M. and Annette P. Cumming
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
5.27.20
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(1 of 3) Lawman Captain Harry Love and two of his California Rangers (the state’s first law-enforcement agency), circa 1853
Photograph courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum
“Gold Rush: Daguerreotypes of Early California,” at the Peabody Essex Museum
May-June 2020
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(1 of 8) Margaret Mee, Tabebuia umbellata, the yellow trumpet tree. Cult. São Paulo, Proc. Butantã, August 1964
Image courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Rare Book Collection.
Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks
May-June 2020
Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections
4.7.20
At the French Windows. The Artist’s Wife, (1897), by Laurits Andersen Ring
Courtesy of the Bruce Museum
Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
March-April 2020
Tani Bunchō, Grasses and Moon (detail), Japanese, Edo period, 1817.
Image: John Tsantes and Neil Greentree; © Robert Feinberg.
Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.”
2.13.20
