ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT YOU DRINK FROM. SOMETIMES TIMES WINE IS NOT THE CONVERSATION PIECE. INSTEAD, IT’S THE GLASS. THERE’S LOTS OF THINGS THAT I’VE TRIED OVER THE YEARS AND NOTHING LASTED ...

CAMBRIDGE — In her poem “Silence,” Marianne Moore quotes her father: “Superior people never make long visits,/have to be shown Longfellow’s grave/or the glass flowers at Harvard.” The glass flowers — ...

From a few feet away, you might think that this marsh marigold—with its intricate vein structures and dangling roots—was plucked from a nearby meadow. Take a step closer, though, and the true beauty ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

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Step into the glass flowers exhibit at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, and you’ll be stunned. The 4,300 intricate glass models that represent 780 species—including orchids, pitcher plants, ...