Harvard Squared

A guide to the arts and culture, history, cuisine, and natural beauty of Cambridge, Boston, and beyond.
People outside at art vendors' stalls at the RISD Craft fair

Staff Pick: RISD Craft Fair

Artists showcase their work in Providence, Rhode Island. In the foreground are pieces by Dwo Wen Chen/Three Wheel Studio. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of Japan

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

by Nell Porter-Brown

A white haired professor emeritus standing by a stone wall in the woods explaining its origins

Curiosities: Stone Walls, a Closer Look

Learning from the past through relics in Concord, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Get Out

Where to enjoy a classic New England summer on land, sea, and sky

by Kara Baskin

Watercolor painting of alligators in a swamp

Master Watercolorists

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Two women seated looking into the film camera, from Japanese film Tokyo Story

Films by a Japanese Master

The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pick up trucks filled with colorful flowers

Trading Finance for Flowers

Cultivating local blooms in Upton, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Boardwalk by Taunton River and Braga Bridge overhead

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

by Nell Porter-Brown

portrait of young girl surrounded by ornate gold-painted frame

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter-Brown

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An evening of figure skating, jazz music, Norton Lecturer Steve McQueen—and more

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