Arts & Culture

Harvard grad John Weidman collaborated with theater giant on “Pacific Overtures,” “Assassins,” and “Road Show.”

Studios reopen for in-person classes in Soca Fusion, Latinx Movement, and more.

Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.

On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.

A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.

Eight years in the making, the opera “Iphigenia” makes its worldwide debut in Boston.

Answering Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces,’ Maria Tatar reveals multitudes in her new book.

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.

Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?

Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.

Rachel Kushner discussed the connection, and differences, between writing fiction and essays at an online Writers Speak event.

Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.

Tap dancer Ayodele Casel explores communication, improvisation, culture, and history in “Chasing the Magic” at the American Repertory Theater.

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

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.

This fall, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts is supporting a series of six commissions from seven contemporary artists across various disciplines.

Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.

New volume fills gap in scholarship on work of celebrated Black photographer Carrie Mae Weems.

Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.

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.

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.

Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.

Harvard’s Office for the Arts panel tackles the need for antiracism programming, allyship.

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.

The Harvard Ed Portal teamed up with Brighton Main Streets to produce 10 free outdoor performances at the Brighton Farmers Market.

John Jay Cabuay explains how he strives to capture the spirit of the people he illustrates.

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.

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 .

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.

After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.