Arts & Culture

With time flattened by quarantine, Professor Deidre Lynch proposed a reading group with her friend Yoon Sun Lee ’87, an English professor at Wellesley College. “Clarissa” was their choice — all 1,500 pages — and the readers soon followed.

Madeleine Klebanoff-O’Brien ’22 used her fellowship at Houghton Library to focus on Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy,” creating a fully image-based research product.

Actress and activist Jameela Jamil talks cancel culture, fatphobia, and diversity in Hollywood in a discussion with Harvard students.

“A New England Document” by Che R. Applewhaite ’21 profiles Lorna and Lawrence Marshall and details their extended expeditions with their children to Africa’s Kalahari Desert starting in the 1950s.

Thomas Piketty translator Arthur Goldhammer talks about his circuitous route to success in a field he never studied.

Radcliffe dean and library director shed light on some of the historical issues framing the “Long 19th Amendment Project.”

Harvard AV technician Rudy Hypolite spent two years following five young Boston men around with digital cameras to make his documentary “This Ain’t Normal.”

Graduate School of Design students auction works to advance social justice.

For the 2020‒21 academic year, Houghton will pause all digital projects to focus solely on building a digital collection related to Black American history, building a collection called “Slavery, Abolition, Emancipation, and Freedom.”

Ibram X. Kendi discusses his new book, how to start conversations about racism with children and with adults, and how to dismantle racist policies.

Decades before cellphone video and social media demanded Americans witness police brutality, hip-hop turned a bright light on all of it, and more.

Harvard Professor Maria Tatar collected versions of the tale of Snow White from around the world and explains how they give us a way to think about what we prefer not to.

The Wave started as a pan-Asian literary and arts magazine, but its mission changed with the rise of racism and xenophobia after pandemic.

Ethnomusicologist Richard Wolf has been contemplating the rupture between two countries in his a film about poet-singers in Tajikistan and in Afghanistan.

Collaborative problem-solving has been key to the success of Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Harvard historian Jill Lepore takes on the history of knowledge with her new podcast “The Last Archive.”

Harvard Divinity School student Steven Salido Fisher’s project, “Gathering Historias,” is documenting Hispanic community’s experiences with nature including the historic green space of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.

Joana Choumali, a Côte d’Ivoire-based artist noted for her work embroidering directly on photographs, has been named the Peabody’s 2020 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.

Virtual, 30-minute art breaks organized by the Harvard Art Museums are designed to help doctors briefly disengage from the pressures and stresses of their work in the age of coronavirus.

The new art exhibition “Windows of Harvard” can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online.

A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.

In the time of COVID-19, Harvard student radio station pays tribute to canceled concerts.

In collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Repertory Theater is working on how it and other theaters can re-emerge in the wake of the current health crisis, uniting the community through great art while keeping audiences, performers, and theater staffers safe. It’s called “The Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience for Theater.”

In collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Repertory Theater is working on how it and other theaters can re-emerge in the wake of the current health crisis, uniting the community through great art while keeping audiences, performers, and theater staffers safe. It’s called “The Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience for Theater.”

Dan McKanan of Harvard Divinity School discusses the ways in which spirituality interacts with climate change and how religious organizations have ensured environmentalism includes social justice.

In a new book, Harvard Assistant Professor of English Beth Blum traces the historical relationship between self-help and literature.

Harvard Scholar at Risk and poet Abu Toha created the first English-language library in Gaza.

A new Harvard Art Museums exhibit features more than 120 works from the Feinberg Collection and captures the evolving nature of Japanese painting over more than 200 years.

Harvard Art Museums’ restoration and research on a portrait of King Philip has both shed light and raised questions about the copy versus an original.