Arts & Culture

Magna Carta on display in Houghton Library

University News |

An Original Magna Carta, Hidden in Plain Sight

A rare original surfaces at Harvard at an “almost providential” moment. 

by Nina Pasquini

Part of the children’s arena at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

New England Regional | March-April 2013

Spring Forward

A small selection of the region’s best public gardens

by Nell Porter-Brown

Arts & Culture |

Art Museum Milestone

Harvard's Fogg Art Museum crane disassembled

Child in her postwar Paris kitchen

Treasure | January-February 2013

Bon Anniversaire

Julia is feted in her centenary year.

by Christopher Reed

From an exhibit on poet Amy Lowell at Houghton Library

New England Regional | January-February 2013

Harvard Happenings

Harvard arts and cultural events

<i>Mahatma Gandhi</i> (2001), by Brett Cook-Dizney, Hawes Hall

Features | January-February 2013

Rethinking the Walls

An unusual art collection in an unexpected place

by John S. Rosenberg

Jane Pickering

Arts & Culture |

Harvard Museums’ Public Face

Jane Pickering appointed executive director of science, culture museums

Anthony Amore

Arts & Culture |

Art Theft Redux

Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, comments on a Rotterdam museum’s loss.

Art from the lecture “Strange Planetary Vistas from Kepler,” at the Center for Astrophysics

New England Regional | November-December 2012

Harvard Happenings

Harvard arts and cultural events

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital

Treasure | November-December 2012

Copper-clad Hello

Putting a warm face on an intimidating proposition

by Christopher Reed

The Peabody Museum's Alexandre A. Tokovinine, a lecturer on anthropology and research associate, is shown at work within a protective tent during the scanning of the Chinese stele—conducted at night for optimal results.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2012

Studying the Stele

Preserving an historic Chinese monument, long neglected