Arts & Culture
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American Dream turned deadly
He just needs to pass the bar now. But blue-collar Conor’s life spirals after a tangled affair at old-money seaside enclave in Teddy Wayne’s literary thriller
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Just one family’s history – and the world’s
Claire Messud’s autobiographically inspired new novel traces ordinary lives through WWII, new world orders, Big Oil, and rise and fall of ideals
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Digging into the Philippines Collections at the Peabody Museum
Filipino American archivist offers personal perspective to exhibit
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Better to be talented or lucky?
If you want fame, Cass Sunstein says, it typically requires some of both — and is no pure meritocracy
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‘Tell the cities about us … and tell our neighbors about what we do’
‘HUM SAB EK’ harvests stories of self-employed Indian women’s hardships — and victories
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A Chekhov play relatable to Americans today
At first, Heidi Schreck wasn’t sure the world needed another take on ‘Uncle Vanya’
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‘The steam and chatter of typewriters’
A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.
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A musical duo of mythic power
Eight years in the making, the opera “Iphigenia” makes its worldwide debut in Boston.
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Genuine heroines
Answering Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces,’ Maria Tatar reveals multitudes in her new book.
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How to pick a literary winner
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke with the Gazette about her role as chair of the panel that crowned “The Promise” by Damon Galgut this year’s winner.
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Women who are ambitious, powerful, in love — and in peril
Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?
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Checking in with the local ghosts
Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.
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In this writer’s life, the art of noticing comes first
Rachel Kushner discussed the connection, and differences, between writing fiction and essays at an online Writers Speak event.
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Raised voices
Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.
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Tapping into magic
Tap dancer Ayodele Casel explores communication, improvisation, culture, and history in “Chasing the Magic” at the American Repertory Theater.
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Creating art from Radcliffe archives
Artist Tomashi Jackson’s latest work, “Brown II,” on view at Radcliffe, is inspired by the work of Civil Rights pioneers Pauli Murray and Ruth Batson, who helped drive public school desegregation efforts
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Something darker than awe
Professor Ellen Winner looks at what may be happening in the minds of viewers who are taking in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapped Arc de Triomphe.
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A look behind the scenes
This fall, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts is supporting a series of six commissions from seven contemporary artists across various disciplines.
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Earth’s most excellent mixtape
Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.
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Giving Carrie Mae Weems her due
New volume fills gap in scholarship on work of celebrated Black photographer Carrie Mae Weems.
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Bringing ancient pottery to life
Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.
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Fresh insight in familiar frames
Horace D. Ballard, the Harvard Art Museums’ new curator of American art, wants us to engage in big questions of our time through works of another.
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Spotted at Radcliffe: A brain exploding into rainbows
While spending a year at Radcliffe working on her latest book, Lauren Groff switched gears after attending a talk by a fellowship classmate — and started a project focused on a medieval nun.
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A son nearing adulthood, his mom nearing death
Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.
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Art for everyone
Harvard’s Office for the Arts panel tackles the need for antiracism programming, allyship.
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Making the audience laugh — and cry
Annie Julia Wyman studied creative writing at Stanford, got her master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Harvard, and seemed destined for a career in academia. Then Hollywood came calling.
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Let the music play
The Harvard Ed Portal teamed up with Brighton Main Streets to produce 10 free outdoor performances at the Brighton Farmers Market.
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A portrait of the man behind the portraits
John Jay Cabuay explains how he strives to capture the spirit of the people he illustrates.
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Motion picture
Harvard Ph.D. student Kéla Jackson’s virtual talk explored the ways muralist and printmaker Louis Delsarte embraced notions of music, color, and interiority in his work.
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Remembrance of cicada seasons past
Cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy ignited a childhood memory in Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture .
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How plants have influenced human societies
Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks’ Plants Humanities Lab hope to shed light on the historical relationships between humans and their environments — and improve our current and future relationships with nature.
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Tuning up for a return to performing in person
After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.
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Take a bow
Since Theater, Dance & Media launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration, almost 40 College students have graduated with a concentration in TDM and more than 90 have pursued secondary concentrations in the field.
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Imagining an alternative America from a Native perspective
“Moving Through History” is an immersive installation happening Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Creating Equal initiative.
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Does climate doubt have a sound? At least one composer thinks so
Harvard professors Janine Jackson and Naomi Oreskes collaborate on music and climate change denial project.
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Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers
Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.