Treasure

A Harvard Art Museums Painting Gets a Bath

Water and sunlight help restore a modern American classic.

by Max J. Krupnick

American business embraces photography in the 1930s

Corporate culture embraces photography.

by Christopher Reed

Tasmanian crocoite at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do

by Christopher Reed

Nineteenth-century dancing lessons

A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.

by Christopher Reed

War and peace in Memorial Hall's stained glass

A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall

by Christopher Reed

Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece

Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.

by Christopher Reed

A scrapbook of seaweed

Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard

by Christopher Reed

Love Nest

The most romantic tent in town

by Christopher Reed

Warrior Artists

Lakota drawings inspire a dramatic exhibition.

by Christopher Reed

Pith Paper

On Tetrapanax papyriferum and Chinese art

A Lover's Picnic

The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.