Arts & Culture

Woodberry Poetry Room workshop project on tradition of elegy inspired by loneliness, grief of pandemic

Shorenstein fellow wants to deploy AI to preserve the visual record. An image from the front lines in Iraq provides a test.

From Benin to Cuba to the Americas, Yosvany Terry sees how tradition safeguards culture and identity

In Tanner Lectures, Princeton sociologist talks AI, social justice

Ahead of Harvard visit, author talks performance, privacy, and horror inspiration for latest novel

Artist of the Year applauds student performers for ‘leaning into authenticity’

Choreographer offers tips on finding release: ‘Ain’t nobody concerned if you look good’

Library staff pick objects that tell story of both University, America for ‘Inside Out’ exhibit

But palliative-care specialist who advised on ‘Night Side Songs’ says new musical about cancer patient is rich, moving

Alum who co-produces ‘Severance’ says show speaks to real-life mysteries

In Harvard talk, author riffs on ‘cloistered’ upbringing, crafting characters through dialogue, working in bed vs. on couch

800 academics convened in Harvard Yard for workshops, presentations, and discussion

How has the internet changed fiction? 8 writers weigh in.

Project maps pigments used in South Asian art

Exhibit traces scholar’s quest to reconstruct abbey destroyed after French Revolution

An exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums asks what we can learn from Edvard Munch’s 40-year obsession with a man and woman at the shore.

Geraldine Brooks traces painful, disorienting pendulum-swing of grief after losing Tony Horwitz, her husband of 35 years

Damion Searls ’92 talks process, sentence structure, and what makes a chair a chair

Sci-fi books recommended by faculty, staff probe AI, humanity, censorship

Classicist Greg Nagy on story’s epic appeal, his favorite translation, and ‘journey of the soul’ that awaits new readers

In a new book, music professor considers race in all its facets

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares with readers the story behind ‘Dream Count,’ a novel she was scared she’d never finish

In new book, Joseph Koerner dissects reaction to 3 works created during political unrest 

Photographer Susan Meiselas shares how ‘44 Irving Street Cambridge, MA’ shaped her career

Celeste Ng discusses new book about mother and son, how the personal becomes political — and vice versa

New exhibit elevates overlooked voices as it explores hope, change, and how we see other

Film Archive pays tribute with 3 films that ‘need to be seen on the big screen’

Faculty recommend their favorite reads adapted for the silver screen … and maybe even improved in the process

Office for the Arts celebrates 50 years with storytelling, music, dance, poetry, and more

Grammy winner, Mexican classical composer Gabriela Ortiz on taking inspiration from folk music, ‘Glitter Revolution’ protests