At Radcliffe, Navy veteran Mackin is at work on his next series, “Animals,” featuring a selection of stories left out of his first collection, many inspired by the animals he came across while on duty with a SEAL team in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A panel of experts explored the various ways in which the history of food in art tells a story of creativity and craftsmanship during a recent virtual talk sponsored by the Harvard Art Museums and presented in partnership with the Food Literacy Project at Harvard University Dining Services.
In 1865, Harvard Professor Louis Agassiz traveled to Brazil to create a photographic catalog of people of different races as anatomic evidence in support of his beliefs. Scholars, artists, and curators from Brazil and the U.S. will reflect on these lesser-known images during a panel discussion called “Race, Representation, and Agassiz’s Brazilian Fantasy” hosted by the Peabody Museum.
William Tsutsui, who teaches a course that explores the rich history of Japanese monsters, says which one will win the new “Godzilla vs. Kong” is anybody’s guess.
Harvard art expert Mary Schneider Enriquez reflects on the sale of a digital collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. The digital work fetched an eye-popping $69 million in auction last week as a non-fungible token, a type of digital file that uses computer networks to prove a digital item’s authenticity, and is paid for in cryptocurrency.
The George Edward Woodberry Poetry Room will celebrate its 90th anniversary by making some of its first recordings — of the poet T.S. Eliot reading his own work — available to the general public on March 19.
Through the efforts of Harvard’s Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Houghton Library has acquired a first edition of the first novel published by an African American in the U.S.
A number of Harvard faculty and experts took part in a discussion last week about how curators and faculty confront the challenges of teaching with and displaying legacy collections of photographs containing difficult subject matter.
The Brattle Theatre will continue its tradition of airing “Casablanca,” offering the iconic 1942 movie through a virtual screening over the long weekend.
As the recipient of this year’s Charles Eliot Norton Professorship in Poetry Laurie Anderson tells us how she is designing her six Norton Lectures for a virtual audience.
Digital Sanctuaries Harvard is an app that invites the public on a virtual walk around and beyond Harvard’s campus through an ever-changing musical score.
On Christmas Eve, the Memorial Church and the Harvard University Choir will present an online service featuring student voices recorded individually from around the world.
Artists from Harvard’s Ed Portal worked from their homes, shops, and studios to amass a catalog of treasures for sale at the fourth-annual winter market.
Though it is too early to tell exactly how the nation’s cultural landscape will fare under a Biden and Harris administration, a number of indicators suggest creative communities could face brighter times ahead with White House support.
Martin Puchner shares his knowledge of Rotwelsch in his new book, “The Language of Thieves: My Family’s Obsession with a Secret Code the Nazis Tried to Eliminate.”
A.R.T.’s annual holiday show, “Jack and the Beanstalk: A Musical Adventure,” is a joyful respite. The 55-minute streamed event is available through Jan. 4.
The four-day Student Composers Festival begins this week, featuring work by 30 Harvard students and recent alumni. The festival is the creation of Veronica Leahy ’23.
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