Arts & Culture

Harvard Music Department administrator Lesley Bannatyne’s other life is as a Halloween expert. She has written five books on the topic, including a children’s work.

The Harvard Graduate Council kicked off Worldwide Week with the inaugural International Festival, featuring music and dance by multicultural student groups.

A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.”

A profile of Luke Kelly ’19, a history concentrator whose work at Houghton Library has nurtured his award-winning passion for books.

At the Center for Government and International Studies, a small exhibit captures the life and work of an artist influenced by Harvard, by a range of cultural forces, and by the postwar art movements swirling in Europe and New York City in the 1950s and ’60s.

Oula Alrifai, A.M. ’19, and her brother, Mouhanad Al-Rifay, are releasing “Tomorrow’s Children,” a documentary about Syrian child refugees trying to survive in Turkey.

La’Toya Princess Jackson, a master’s of liberal arts candidate in dramatic arts, takes a main role, and learns more than just her part.

Wynton Marsalis shares the stage with President Drew Faust to celebrate the release of his video, based on a lecture series he started at Harvard in 2011.

An interview with George Andreou, who took the helm as new director of the Harvard University Press in September.

Harvard professor and New Yorker book critic James Wood talks to the Gazette about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize in literature.

Sebastian Reyes ’19 took a course in Soviet film and ran with it — all the way to Russia.

“Maus” author Art Spiegelman discussed art, existence, and Jewish identity during a visit to Harvard.

“WARHOLCAPOTE” draws from 75 hours of conversations between Andy Warhol and Truman Capote recorded during the 1970s, when they discussed everything from the trials of fame to using their talks to create their own Broadway show.

Radcliffe hosted directors from five Boston-area museums for a discussion titled “The Museum, the City, and the University.”

Harvard’s newest assistant professor of music brings years of experience as a composer, pianist, choir director, and minister.

Generations of Harvard alumni came together on campus last weekend to celebrate the arts as a dynamic part of the University’s curriculum. 

Claire Messud, senior lecturer in the Creative Writing Program, discusses her latest novel about the joy and pain of middle school as a young woman.

A course on Frida Kahlo helped students understand the context in which the Mexican painter developed her works and how she became a cult icon.

A special show at Harvard Art Museums features a series of 10 prints from Andy Warhol’s “Marilyn Monroe” portfolio.

Harvard Art Museums trip to Dighton Rock explored its connection to the exhibition “The Philosophy Chamber: Art and Science in Harvard’s Teaching Cabinet, 1766-1820.”

Transition, a magazine published by the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, has been published in Africa for the first time in nearly three decades.

Salman Rushdie discussed his new novel, “The Golden House,” in a conversation with Harvard’s Homi Bhabha at First Parish Church.

Two collections of William Moulton Marston, a Harvard graduate, psychologist, and inventor of the lie detector machine whose Wonder Woman comics promoted the triumph of women in a male-dominated world, arrived at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library.

Harvard jazz leader and instructor Yosvany Terry returns to his musical roots in Cuba, where his destiny was formed.

Ashley LaLonde ’20 may soon have the enviable dilemma of choosing between following her dream to Broadway or continuing her studies at Harvard.

Celebrated writer Michael Pollan talks to the Gazette about joining the Creative Writing Program as the Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer.

Harvard Film Archive has programmed films by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow and others for its “Night of the Vampire.”

The Harvard Jazz Bands make and learn music, absorb culture on summer tour of Cuba.

While many of their peers were relaxing, a handful of Harvard students spent their summer immersing themselves in Viking history on a remote Danish island.

Creative writing lecturer Paul Yoon talks to the Gazette about his new book, “The Mountain,” and about his process, teaching, and the thinking behind his new story collection.