Museums & Collections
“Edifying and Beautiful”
Botanical illustrations on display at Harvard’s rare book library
by Jack R. Trapanick
Seafaring America
Visiting Mystic, Connecticut
by Craig Lambert
Photographs and Blackness, Barkley L. Hendricks
How the artist saw community—and the world
by Nell Porter Brown
Blanche Calloway, Cab’s Enterprising Older Sister
The success and struggles of a pioneering musician
by Jacob Sweet
Springtime Antics at the Arnold Arboretum
Lesser-known plants with tricks up their sleeves (or, rather, stems)
by Nancy Walecki
“That Human Element”
The Houghton debuts a digital collection of African-American primary sources.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Arnold Arboretum Turns 150
A look back at the Arboretum's history—and the millennia to come
by Nancy Walecki
The Fighting Pencil
How cartoonists powered the USSR propaganda apparatus
by Nancy Walecki
Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum
The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford
by Jacob Sweet
A Verdant Cultural Retreat
Boston’s Forest Hills Cemetery is a welcome respite from the world.
by Nell Porter Brown
True Crime
Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media
by Nancy Walecki