Arts & Culture

Garden view of Aspet, with vibrant flower beds and Mount Ascutney in the background.

Harvard Squared | May-June 2025

Basking in the Beaux-Arts

Park offers art, nature, and history in New Hampshire

by Nell Porter-Brown

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2015

Sustainability Steps

As debates continue over divestment, Harvard events highlight progress on campus sustainability and climate research.

Professor Ali Malkawi, the founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, welcomes participants to the challenge conference.

Architecture & Design |

The Challenges of Greener Cities

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities hosts inaugural challenge conference.

The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums have entrances on both Quincy and Prescott Streets. The staff of the Museums hopes that casual passersby will filter through the building and gather in its central courtyard.

Museums & Collections |

“Beauty Will Save the World”

Welcoming the University community through a series of special talks and celebrations, the Harvard Art Museums re-introduce themselves.

A silhouette can be seen in the negative space around the fountain at a Roxbury park.

Montage | November-December 2014

Urban Surprises

Ross Miller’s public art in overlooked places captivates viewers.

by Stephanie Garlock

Light from the Calderwood Courtyard is ideal for the display of ancient sculpture, like this Roman work.

John Harvard's Journal | November-December 2014

Unleashing Harvard’s Art Museums

Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.

Oprah Winfrey accepts the W.E.B Du Bois Medal for the late writer and activist Maya Angelou.

Arts & Culture |

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2014

Dunster Deconstruction

House Renewal reaches a whole new scale.

John Harvard's Journal | September-October 2014

Steeple Sounds

Memorial Church’s cracked bell is replaced.

Meandering paths at Fairsted, the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

Harvard Squared | September-October 2014

A Park of One’s Own

The last home and private garden of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of modern landscape architecture

by Nell Porter-Brown

The bucolic Essex River property Cogswell’s Grant, named for the 1636 royal grant given to John Cogswell, is now a house museum open to the public.

Harvard Squared | July-August 2014

Lives in Art

Early American artifacts help animate history.

by Nell Porter-Brown