Arts & Culture

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.

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.

“Moving Through History” is an immersive installation happening Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Creating Equal initiative.

Harvard professors Janine Jackson and Naomi Oreskes collaborate on music and climate change denial project.

Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.

Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.

Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”

Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.

Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”

American Repertory Theater has been focusing on international collaborations, taking lessons from its recent productions that were able to bring live theater back abroad.

The art installation “Lucidity” was an immersive light and video display in Harvard Yard.

Jorie Graham and Louis Menand discuss Menand’s new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” his influences, and writing style.

This semester, Harvard archaeology students are dropping in on nearly 90 virtual classrooms as special guest speakers, telling more than 2,500 public and private school students and teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools about subjects ranging from ancient tombs offerings in Mexico to trade practices in the Red Sea region.

Viola Davis celebrated winning Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year award during the virtual ceremony.

Keisha N. Blain, historian and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, discusses working on her newest book, a compilation of essays, short stories, and poems by 90 Black historians, authors, academics, journalists, and activists that traces the history of African America from 1619 to 2019.

Author and activist Julia Wright, filmmaker Malcolm Wright, and author and Radcliffe Fellow Kiese Laymon discuss the uncut version of Richard Wright’s novel “The Man Who Lived Underground” during a talk supported in part by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

The 11-day Arts First festival kicks off April 19, with programming featuring some of Harvard’s best visual arts, music, dance, and performance.

Hasty Pudding Theatricals announces Viola Davis as 2021 Woman of the Year.

In her poem “The Story of Venus,” Suzannah Omonuk imagines what life may have been like for the young enslaved woman living on campus in the 18th century.

Gregg Hecimovich, a Furman University English professor, is working to recover the stories of the Zealy daguerreotypes, which depict enslaved Africans in 19th-century America.

American Repertory Theater’s executive producer Diane Borger to step down in June, returning to London where she spent the first 30 years of her career.