Arts & Culture

Pulitzer Prize in the foreground with Radcliffe Institute in the background

University News |

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes Announced

Winners across five categories, from commentary on Gaza to criticism on public architecture

by Olivia Farrar

A photograph of art historian Cassandra Albinson next to a photograph of a portrait of the Marquise de Pompadour applying pink rouge to her cheeks

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2021

Cassandra Albinson

A curator takes a fresh look at portraits of aristocratic European women.

by Jonathan Shaw

Producer Jeff Schaffer sits between star Larry David (left) and another cast member on the “Curb Your Enthusiasm” set.

Montage | January-February 2021

“Magical Digressions”

TV writer and producer Jeff Schaffer on how to be funny

by Stuart Miller

Ornate eighteenth-century dress with wide hooped skirt

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

“Made It: The Women Who Revolutionized Fashion”

Highlighting 250 years of women in fashion

by Nell Porter-Brown

Three people in 1950s New York

Harvard Squared | January-February 2021

Picturing America

“Robert Frank: The Americans,” at the Addison Gallery of American Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

Arts & Culture |

Up Close (Virtually) with the Forbes Pigment Collection

Harvard’s world-famous collection of colors can now be enjoyed from home. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of the cover of To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes

Books & Literary Life |

See Their Faces

Confronting “some of the most challenging images in the history of photography”

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Majestic twentieth-century stone castle perched on Gloucester coastline

Harvard Squared | November-December 2020

A Man and His Castle

Gothic surroundings, spiritualism, and science: Hammond Castle Museum’s eclectic appeal

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of Edo era fan depicting Mount Fuji and Mount Tsukuba on alternate sides

Treasure | November-December 2020

An Auspicious View

This folding fan enfolds two sacred mountains.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.

Montage | November-December 2020

“To Break Our Own Rules”

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson

Black-and-white photograph of Karl Puchner in 1937 with his wife, young son, and a tiny, barely visible swastika button on his jacket

Montage | November-December 2020

Family History

A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova