Art as cultural backdrop
Visiting an art museum usually means confronting a kaleidoscope of works. Paintings, objects, and installations can flash past like meteorites. But a Harvard Art Museum lecture series this year invites...
View ArticleA celebration of substance
Friends and members of the Harvard community gathered in Lamont Library to mark the 10th anniversary of the Weissman Preservation Center. The center specializes in the treatment of rare and unique...
View ArticleLooking at ‘Invisible Cities’
During his freshman year at Harvard, Christian Starling ’10 had a panicky moment. An art project was due. What now? He found the answer under his bed — in bits of trash, paper, and random materials....
View ArticleStaff art is focus at Radcliffe Institute
Staff members from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gathered in the Byerly Hall art gallery on June 15 to view something familiar: photographs, acrylic paintings, pencil sketches, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visions of war
An old Palestinian couple, uneasily at home in a Jordanian refugee camp, bicker and complain to an interviewer. An unlikely picture of war emerges in the 10-minute video, one of personal moments. The...
View ArticleThe Weissman Center at work
The Weissman Preservation Center, an arm of Harvard Library that recently hosted a group of Russian conservators for training, celebrated its first decade last year. A glimpse of the center’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An intimate body of work
Renowned for his caricatures, his original style of cubism, and his figurative painting, artist Lyonel Feininger, a member of the Bauhaus School, the influential modern art offshoot founded in Germany...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Art as cultural backdrop
Visiting an art museum usually means confronting a kaleidoscope of works. Paintings, objects, and installations can flash past like meteorites. But a Harvard Art Museum lecture series this year...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A celebration of substance
Friends and members of the Harvard community gathered in Lamont Library to mark the 10th anniversary of the Weissman Preservation Center. The center specializes in the treatment of rare and unique...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Looking at ‘Invisible Cities’
During his freshman year at Harvard, Christian Starling ’10 had a panicky moment. An art project was due. What now? He found the answer under his bed — in bits of trash, paper, and random materials....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Staff art is focus at Radcliffe Institute
Staff members from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study gathered in the Byerly Hall art gallery on June 15 to view something familiar: photographs, acrylic paintings, pencil sketches, and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Visions of war
An old Palestinian couple, uneasily at home in a Jordanian refugee camp, bicker and complain to an interviewer. An unlikely picture of war emerges in the 10-minute video, one of personal moments. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Weissman Center at work
The Weissman Preservation Center, an arm of Harvard Library that recently hosted a group of Russian conservators for training, celebrated its first decade last year. A glimpse of the center’s...
View ArticleClik here to view.
An intimate body of work
Renowned for his caricatures, his original style of cubism, and his figurative painting, artist Lyonel Feininger, a member of the Bauhaus School, the influential modern art offshoot founded in Germany...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Photographic treasures
A single photograph may capture a moment. A collection can open a window to the past. Earlier this year, photograph conservators from the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, visited...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Of books, trees, and knowledge
To Ling Guo, a curator for the Beijing Botanic Garden, one of the best places to learn about Chinese crab apples is half a world away, in Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum Horticultural Library. Guo was...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Six decades of science as diplomacy
When you think of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland, you may think of cutting-edge equipment and particles circling unimaginably fast, colliding into each other to make bosons and other...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Walking in Cuba
When Havana’s steamy afternoons melt into sherbet-colored sultriness, Jonathan Hansen goes exploring. He strolls the malecón, the capital city’s coastal esplanade, passing through dilapidated...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Twenty-eight top Harvard Gazette stories of 2019
Recalling a year of quantum computing and Commencement, a black hole and a big statue on campus, South Pole life and sustainable commuting. Campus life Merkel advises graduates: Break the walls that...
View Article
