Arts & Culture

Two photos of the same woman, one as a store worker the other as an Arctic explorer

Harvard Squared | May-June 2025

Rendering Dreams in Art

South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Video-game artist Scott Duquette at his home in Providence, Rhode Island

Montage | July-August 2012

Cities for Games

Video-game designer Scott Duquette ’05, a new kind of urban planner

by Dan Barbarisi

Peonies and Butterflies (c. 1757)

University News |

“Colorful Realm” Makes It Big

Suite of Japanese nature paintings draws more visitors than 1976 King Tut exhibit

The 1931 Picasso painting <i>Nude, Green Leaves and Bust</i> being auctioned at Christie’s in 2010. The sale price of $106 million set a world record.

Montage | May-June 2012

High Art under the Hammer

Brooke Lampley '02 heads modern and impressionist art at Christie's.

by Craig Lambert

A replica of what may be the earliest known version of the American flag to include stars

The College Pump | May-June 2012

Salute Flag and Shack!

A star-spangled Colonial find and a book honoring Motif No. 1

Reverend Raitei Arima, chief priest of Shokokuji Monastery in Kyoto, performs a blessing ceremony over a 30-scroll set of paintings from the 1700s, considered a cultural treasure of Japan, on March 26 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. The museum is displaying the paintings, by Ito Jakuchu, to mark the centennial of Japan's gift of 3,000 cherry trees to the nation's capital.

Arts & Culture |

The Richness of Nature at Large

Yukio Lippit curates Colorful Realm exhibit at National Gallery

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

| March-April 2012

An Enchanted “Colorful Realm”

In a video interview, Yukio Lippit explains the beauty of Japanese paintings displayed in the Cherry Blossom Festival centennial exhibit.

| March-April 2012

Stealing Rembrandts Does Not Pay

A video interview with Anthony Amore, director of security at the museum where the largest heist in history took place

<i>Nandina and Rooster</i> (c. 1761–1765)

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2012

A Blossoming Centennial

Masterworks of Japanese painting on display for the Cherry Blossom Festival's centennial

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

<i>Untitled</i> (Night View of Trees and Streetlamp, Burgkühnauer Allee, Dessau), 1928

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2012

Lyonel Feininger, Photographer

Displaying a fascinating body of work

Anthony Amore at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with empty frames that held venerable paintings before the 1990 theft

Montage | March-April 2012

Hot Canvases

A new book shatters myths about art theft.

by David Menconi