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Harvard’s Complicit History with Slavery

by Robert Moeller February 26, 2019March 20, 2019

Slavery in the Hands of Harvard is a small but remarkably effective look at the historical ties and intersections between the school and the varied institutions of slavery.

Posted inSponsored

The Bauhaus and Harvard on View at the Harvard Art Museums

by Harvard Art Museums February 8, 2019February 25, 2019

Expansive exhibition features works by major artists, including student exercises, design objects, photographs, textiles, typography, paintings, and archival materials.

Posted inArt

How a Fake Monster Crept Into our Museums

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 15, 2018January 18, 2018

The Fiji Mermaid was an object of fantasy but for a long time it was on display as a specimen that many people believed was real.

Posted inArt

A Forest Elegy for the Rapidly Vanishing American Hemlock Tree

Avatar photo by Allison Meier January 10, 2018April 24, 2018

Hemlock Hospice is an interpretive trail of sculptures in the Harvard Forest which draws attention to the vanishing eastern hemlock tree.

Posted inHistory

How Trompe-L’Oeil Added Information and Ornamentation to Maps

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 27, 2017January 23, 2023

Look But Don’t Touch: Tactile Illusions on Maps at the Harvard Map Collection explores how cartographers have used trompe l’oeil illustrations on maps.

Posted inHistory

Thousands of Objects Tell of Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence Across the Centuries

Avatar photo by Allison Meier November 10, 2017November 10, 2017

Altered States: Sex, Drugs, and Transcendence in the Ludlow-Santo Domingo Library at Harvard’s Houghton Library explores the human desire to escape the ordinary.

Posted inNews

Scientists Encode Living DNA with Muybridge’s Galloping Horse Film

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 18, 2017July 18, 2017

Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge’s 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.

Posted inArt

Mourning Extinction with a Museum’s Animal Artifacts

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 17, 2017March 17, 2017

In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction.

Posted inArt

An Anthropological Look at Weapons of War as Objects of Art

Avatar photo by Allison Meier March 17, 2017March 17, 2017

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard explores centuries of weapons from around the world that double as works of art.

Posted inNews

Harvard Adds the Blackest Black to Its Historical Pigment Collection

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 3, 2016

Harvard Art Museums acquired a sample of Vantablack, a material that absorbs almost 100% of light.

Posted inArt

Beyond Gorgeous: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston Collections

by Natasha Seaman November 12, 2016November 11, 2016

For viewers accustomed to looking at paintings on canvas and panel, manuscripts are a different beast.

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Harvard’s Garden of Glass Flowers Blooms Again

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 27, 2016September 27, 2016

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.

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