Arts & Culture

At Harvard, cultural historian Harvey Young and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins shared their views on how the arts had changed and what the state of the arts are now.

English course offers kaleidoscopic, cross-disciplinary look at horror classic as film, potential play, cultural artifact with long shadow.

Rappers, activists, scholars debate controversy surrounding subgenre of hip-hop.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood, M.A. ’62, whose speculative fiction about women and power has made her both a beloved feminist icon and a repeated object of censorship, returned to Harvard to speak at Sanders Theatre.

New Harvard Art Museums show explores interactions between European, Indigenous, and African civilizations in works from Spanish Empire.

Games have inspired dozens of movies and TV shows recently. A new English class studies growing critical scholarship on the subject.

Novelist Joshua Cohen and professor James Wood discuss the creation of Cohen’s book, “The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family.”

Scholar Anna Wilson looks at the role #MeToo plays in Zadie Smith’s “The Wife of Willesden,” an adaption of Chaucer’s “The Wife of Bath’s Tale.”

Creative people have bypassed gatekeepers for centuries to distribute “what they wanted to share so badly.”

Black queer poet, scholar Cheryl Clarke discusses achieving Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision.

Assistant Professor Quinn White studies the ethics of love and relationships.

Students make 22-foot skiff in “silent” workshop that puts emphasis on observation — and a good hammering rhythm.

Many in jazz circles knew music of these four women, but Radcliffe fellow wants to make sure the rest of us do too.

Darrel Ellis exhibition at Carpenter Center looks back yet feels of the moment with its themes of family history, identity, loss.

The ArtsThursdays initiative increases accessibility and availability of Harvard arts for University affiliates and the wider community.

Egyptologist George Reisner transformed the field, and a biography by Peter Der Manuelian explores not just his career, but his life during what some consider the golden age of Egyptian archaeology.

Giuliana Bruno’s new book, “Atmospheres of Projection: Environmentality in Art and Screen Media,” reclaims concepts of “projection” as positive force connecting us to one another, affirming possibility of change.

Makeda Best on images she chose for award-winning “Devour the Land,” which depicts environmental toll of militarism in U.S.

Dasha Bough ’23 created an animated documentary challenging one of the world’s oldest and most dangerous and persistent conspiracy theories.

Hebrew literature and philosophy professor’s project aims to make ‘unyielding’ text of ancient Jewish accessible.

Author and Harvard alum W. David Marx digs into how social aspirations underlie all our choices.

Far from her native Indianapolis, Alyssa Gaines steeps herself in life on Harvard’s campus.

Nick Barnes talks about animal puppets he co-designed for stage version of best-selling novel, now playing at Harvard’s A.R.T.

Experts took a virtual look at the role of satire in pushing climate change action, with reviews mixed on a recent film.

Creative process and Jewish tradition were central to a lively conversation as Nobel Prize-winning poet Louise Glück delivered the Center for Jewish Studies’ annual Doft Lecture.

New classics professor Irene Soto Marín mines answers to question about ancient Egyptian life, economy from everyday artifacts.

A Pittsburgh artist who seeks to honor authors has transcribed Richard Powers’ Pulitzer Prize-winning “The Overstory” onto a scroll reminiscent of a redwood tree’s 160-foot cross section. It’s on display through January at the Arnold Arboretum.

On the 100th anniversary of discovering Tutankhamun’s tomb, an Egyptian jewel comes to Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East.

Hutchins Center for African and African American Research returned after three years to award the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal to seven luminaries.

Realistic mummy portraits, on view at Harvard Art Museums, shed light on life, death in multicultural Roman era 2,000 years ago