Arts & Culture

“The Architecture of Democracy” examined how buildings, and their designers, contribute to the shape of our society.

Chris Killip, 74, renowned documentary photographer and former professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard, died on Oct. 13.

Diane Paul talks to the Gazette about the Tony recognition of “Jagged Little Pill,” the A.R.T.’s wide-ranging fall schedule, and the very survival of theater itself.

Book confronts historical, ethical questions posed by Zealy daguerreotypes.

Marc Brew, artistic director of AXIS Dance Company, spoke about how his company has adapted to the conditions set by the pandemic.

“Jagged Little Pill,” which premiered at the American Repertory Theater, was nominated for 15 Tony Awards, the most of any show from the 2019-20 Broadway season.

The Harvard University Committee on the Arts has awarded 12 activist artists with one-time, no-strings-attached honorariums of $2,000 and an open invitation to present at Harvard.

The American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) announces it 2020 fall season of virtual programming.

Students and faculty in the Theater, Dance & Media program think creatively about how to put on a show in the age of COVID.

Harvard’s Ed Portal uses art to kick off a conversation about self-care for people of color.

Rhiannon Giddens reflects on her new role as the Silkroad’s artistic director, and where she sees taking the ensemble in future.

Gwen Thompkins celebrates the music of her home state every week on her comprehensive and joyful radio show.

On Oct. 2, the Theater of War will mount a digital performance of “Antigone in Ferguson,” sponsored by Harvard’s departments of Theater, Dance & Media and the Classics.

With time flattened by quarantine, Professor Deidre Lynch proposed a reading group with her friend Yoon Sun Lee ’87, an English professor at Wellesley College. “Clarissa” was their choice — all 1,500 pages — and the readers soon followed.

Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien ’22 used her fellowship at Houghton Library to focus on Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” creating a fully image-based research product.

Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.

“A New England Document” by Che R. Applewhaite ’21 profiles Lorna and Lawrence Marshall and details their extended expeditions with their children to Africa’s Kalahari Desert starting in the 1950s.

Thomas Piketty translator Arthur Goldhammer talks about his circuitous route to success in a field he never studied.

Radcliffe dean and library director shed light on some of the historical issues framing the “Long 19th Amendment Project.”

Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”

Graduate School of Design students auction works to advance social justice.

For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”

Ibram X. Kendi discusses his new book, how to start conversations about racism with children and with adults, and how to dismantle racist policies.

Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.

Harvard Professor Maria Tatar collected versions of the tale of Snow White from around the world and explains how they give us a way to think about what we prefer not to.

The Wave started as a pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, but its mission changed with the rise of racism and xenophobia after pandemic.

Ethnomusicologist Richard Wolf has been contemplating the rupture between two countries in his a film about poet-singers in Tajikistan and in Afghanistan.

Collaborative problem-solving has been key to the success of Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Harvard historian Jill Lepore takes on the history of knowledge with her new podcast “The Last Archive.”

Harvard Divinity School student Steven Salido Fisher’s project, “Gathering Historias,” is documenting Hispanic community’s experiences with nature including the historic green space of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.