Arts & Culture


The Picture of Freedom

A Boston Athenaeum exhibit explores an abolitionist with Harvard ties.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard Art Museums Now Admission-Free

The new policy includes all visitors, effective immediately.  

by John S. Rosenberg

Charades with Chutzpah

Harvard’s Yiddish Theater Collection

by Max J. Krupnick

Master Watercolorists

Works by Sargent, Homer, and others at the Worcester Art Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter Brown

Films by a Japanese Master

The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”

by Nell Porter Brown

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

by Nancy Walecki

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

by Nell Porter Brown

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter Brown

Attuned to Pianos

An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession

by Lydialyle Gibson

What Birds’ Nests Tell Us

Inside the Museum of Comparative Zoology’s revealing birds’ egg and nest collection

by John S. Rosenberg