Arts & Culture
An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight
A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment.
by Nina Pasquini
The Everyday Dignity of Helen Zughaib’s Refugees
The Lebanese-American painter depicts people who pay the price of war.
by Marina N. Bolotnikova
An Orphaned Sewing Machine
The multifaceted global and interdisciplinary impact of a useful object
Celebrating Cinema
Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive
by Nell Porter-Brown
Doris Salcedo Gives Form to Tragedy
A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.
by Sophia Nguyen
“Getting Out of the Way of the Work”
Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery
by Lily Scherlis
Facing Harvard
When the College commissioned Copley
by Jane Kamensky
“Going Aboard?”
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
by Evander Price
Steampunk’s Sole
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Beauty from Disarray
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
by Violet Baron
Pranks in Pusey Library
A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief
by Aidan Langston