Arts Columns
Tanner A. B. Quirk ’29 on Artistry, Applause, and Arabesques
Quirk’s energy — as his career has shown — is boundless, and the Harvard arts scene is a lucky beneficiary.
Building Harvard: The MBA Class of 1959 Chapel
The chapel’s power comes from its architecture’s considered and deliberate attunement to its intended use.
Verveine Café and Bakery’s Monica Glass on Gluten-Freedom
Before opening Verveine Café and Bakery, Glass built a long, storied career in pastry, working her way through some of the nation’s best kitchens.
Jolin Chan ’25 on Food as Art, Scholarship, and Vocation
Jolin Chan ’25 wears many hats in food and hospitality.
‘Puerto Ricans — We Don't Crack, Baby’: Will Ramos of Lorna Shore on Creative Integrity, Heritage, and Screaming
For Ramos, curating a unique and recognizable sound is far more important than subscribing to genre norms.
‘When Your Eyes Are Shut’ EP Review: An Eye-Opener
They balance loyalty to their genre’s techniques with a sample and background ambience-driven originality that promises further exploitation in releases to come.
Keonté Henson on Finding Home in Boston’s Food Scene
Henson is professionally trained as a civil engineer and, until recently, worked in project consulting. That began to change in January 2023.
Kate E. Ravenscroft’s Local Appetite: Boston Soup Dumplings
I discovered Boston Soup Dumplings on a lark, when a friend suggested that we try out a new place around the corner, and I fell in love.
Kate E. Ravenscroft’s Local Appetite: Clear Flour Bread
Nestled in the elbow of Thorndike St. and Lawton St., Clear Flour is a true Boston idyll.
‘Conscious of Language and Power’: Katie Kitamura on the Physical Life of Words
One book at a time, Katie Kitamura is devising a theory on how to articulate what is undefinable.
Building Harvard: The Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums elegantly combines both new and old.
Photographing the Moon: One Man’s Quest to Capture the Lunar Surface
Rutherfurd’s Moon images are beautiful, but they also marked an important leap forward for scientific imaging through their detail and clarity.
In summer I shed something / Something is Understood
Watch over my remains, will you, as I step from my reeling body, as I prepare to land, eyes open
Building Harvard: The Carpenter Center
One space on campus — resting between the dignified bricks of the “classic” Harvard buildings — is the Carpenter Center.
‘Balancing Output with Input’: Margaret Rogerson on Writing Fantasy, Taking Breaks, and Balancing Inspiration and Hard Work
What does writing fantasy novels look like? What is the journey and the daily routine of an author who creates these fantastical universes?
Outside the Dollhouse / Proof of life
In the cooling air your face cracks open like a ceramic dish; you are insane, hungry, harmful,
Dawn M. Spears on Public Art and Amplifying Indigenous Artistic Traditions in the Northeast
Spears and her husband also grew an acre of this corn on the land they used for the Narragansett Food Sovereignty Initiative. They saw the corn’s ability to bring together their community.
The Spirit of the United States in Washington D.C.’s Art Scene
I get chills recalling the sheer power of art that I felt in this room at the National Portrait Gallery, as if the genius loci of Washington, D.C. was standing next to me like a ghost.
Side Parts in Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
By side part, I refer to the iconic hairstyles in the film that simultaneously defy all sense of historical logic and firmly anchor “Nosferatu” as a product of the early 1920s.
The Art of the Outside: Sonia S. Ralston on ‘Ghost Trees’
In an augmented reality exhibit called “Ghost Trees,” Sonia S. Ralston, an alum of the Harvard Graduate School of Design designed 3-D digital models of five Arboretum trees.
In Photos: A Typical Sunday Bell-Ringing
This photo essay illuminates the appearance of the bells up close, giving a glimpse of what goes on in the bell tower during a typical Sunday ringing.
Witching Out in Salem
Every October, the quaint city of Salem — only an hour outside of Boston by car or train — is transformed into a premier location for Halloween haunts
I Could Literally Be in Italy Right Now
But the Harvard ecosystem walks a fine line between fully immersing us in our studies and entirely overwhelming us to the point of giving up. This is precisely the reason I found myself studying abroad in Florence last semester.
Ringing the Lowell Bells: The ‘Great, Unfinalizable Symphony’
For this column, I will be living and breathing bells — anything to try to bridge that 128-step gap between the platform of the bell tower and the world below.
The Art of the Outside: Lorraine E. Bubar as an Artist-in-Residence at Acadia National Park
Even for people who aren’t professional artists, Acadia provides an escape from the hustle and bustle of daily life, providing the space to slow down to create and share art.
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