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An older couple standing in a large room filled with pianos

Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Arts

An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession

2.6.23

Nancy Hopkins (center) stands with Salvador Luria (left) and David Baltimore at the MIT Cancer Center in the 1980s.

Photograph courtesy of MIT Museum

New book on Nancy Hopkins speaks to women's fight for equality then—and their fight now

3.16.23

Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper 2014, National Academy of Fine Arts, Oslo.

Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.

3.8.23

Digital reconstruction of two medieval tiles

Digital reconstruction of tiles showing Richard the Lionheart and Saladin

Image ©Janis Desmarais and Amanda Luyster

A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.

March-April 2023

Art depicting Vegas showgirl kissing businessman

The Desert Inn

Images courtesy of Alison Elizabeth Taylor and the James Cohan Gallery, New York 

Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art

March-April 2023

Historic buildings and American flag in Litchfield, Connecticut

A glimpse of the shops and restaurants across from the town green
Photograph by Stan Tess/Alamy Stock Photo

Visiting America’s first formal law school

March-April 2023

Photograph of collected hummingbird nests and eggs

Drawer of diminutive hummingbird nests and eggs

Photograph by Jim Harrison

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

March-April 2023

Dumb Menakaya standing on campus with her camera

Dumebi Menakaya

Photograph by Jim Harrison

The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.

March-April 2023

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Republican or Early Imperial Roman relief of the Greek playwright Menander, 100 BCE-early first century CE

Photograph from the Princeton University Art Museum/In the Public Domain

How humans hybridize their civilizations

March-April 2023