Treasure

A woman and a horse jump off a large platform into water

Treasure | July-August 2025

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

Margaret Mee painting of yellow trumpet tree

Treasure | May-June 2020

An Amazon Artist

Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Illuminated manuscript page

Treasure | March-April 2020

“Cut Missal Up…”

Consequences of book-breaking

by Diane E. Booton

A Hasty Pudding Theatricals poster from 1910 showing a debutante curtseying

Treasure | January-February 2020

Pudding Pots & Parody

“Shingles” and other art of the Hasty Pudding from the Harvard Theatre Collection.

by Jonathan Shaw

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Treasure | November-December 2019

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

A photograph of an eighteenth-century, three-inch pocket globe in its open case

Treasure | September-October 2019

It’s a Small World

Ebenezer Storer’s pocket globe

by Jacob Sweet

Treasure | July-August 2019

Jades, Reread

A fresh, up-close look at the Winthrop collection

by John S. Rosenberg

Treasure | May-June 2019

Africa in Clay

Pliable arts from across the continent

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Treasure | March-April 2019

Jewel Box and Jewels

A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard

by John S. Rosenberg

Treasure | January-February 2019

A Millennial Mystery

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton

Treasure | November-December 2018

“Party Animals”

Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s

by Marina N. Bolotnikova