Arts & Culture

Dave Malloy, who turned “War and Peace” into Tony Award-winning musical, takes on “Moby-Dick.”

In Aysha Upchurch’s new course, “Hip Hop Dance: Exploring the Groove and the Movement Beneath and Beyond the Beat,” students learn the histories behind some of their favorite moves.

At the Radcliffe Institute, Alaskan Inupiaq poet and Harvard alum Joan Naviyuk Kane keeps her language and culture alive through her art and her family.

Harvard University professor Matt Liebmann is an archaeologist who has spent decades alongside the people of Jemez Pueblo, using science to give fresh life to tribal stories.

Prolific writer, scholar, and cultural organizer Eve L. Ewing is focused on community-based arts and culture projects in her city of Chicago.

Scientists at Harvard published a study on music as a cultural product, which examines what features of song tend to be shared across societies.

Harvard College student Karalyn Joseph is combining her passion for theater and her love of community to nurture performers of all abilities.

A new exhibit at the Peabody Museum examines the various cultural origins of American cuisine.

“Love in a Mist (and the Politics of Fertility),” the fall exhibit at the Graduate School of Design, examines ways culture seeks to control women and nature.

Cast and crew of Harvard’s new production of West Side Story wrestle with the classic musical’s racial, ethnic, and political complications

In a first-year seminar, students study portraits of indigenous American leaders to learn about art, identity, and the history of indigenous peoples.

In a Radcliffe talk, an expert on regenerative medicine and a transdisciplinary artist explore the heart as organ and metaphor.

For six decades, Harvard’s Gilbert and Sullivan players have staged romping and boisterous productions.

Walé Oyéjidé talks about art and fashion ahead of a screening of his new documentary, “After Migration: Calabria,” on campus Nov. 12.

Three Hindu monastics share their thoughts on Harvard Divinity School and the world they will return to.

Boston-area high school students will perform “Freedom Acts” on Nov. 2‒3. As part of the A.R.T.’s Proclamation Project, the play tackles questions of what hypocrisies and contradictions exist in what we think of as American freedom.

In a class called “Haunted: Writing the Supernatural,” Harvard students put their imaginations to work creating tales of demons, monsters, and ghosts.

Lonnie G. Bunch III, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, recalls his challenges in founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Rapper Queen Latifah, poets Elizabeth Alexander and Rita Dove, Smithsonian secretary Lonnie Bunch III, philanthropist Sheila C. Johnson, artist Kerry James Marshall, and entrepreneur Robert F. Smith were honored with this year’s W.E.B. Du Bois Medals.

“Writing Black Lives,” a Radcliffe talk by three biographers that explored how the lives and work of three influential Americans — federal judge and activist Constance Baker Motley, playwright Lorraine Hansberry, and author James Baldwin — helped shape and are still shaping conversations around black politics, community, identity, and life.

Harvard historian Lizabeth Cohen’s latest book explores the life and career of Ed Logue, a Yale-trained lawyer who became an influential city planner and applied the lessons of Roosevelt’s New Deal to urban renewal.

Amirah Sackett uses dance to challenge conceptions of Muslim womanhood. The Chicago dancer, choreographer, educator, and activist combines hip-hop with Islamic themes to explore her identity and invites viewers to expand their understanding of movement as a mode of self-expression. The Gazette spoke to Sackett about the importance of education in the arts, her activism, and love of poetry.

Since 2002, the Hiphop Archive and Research Institute has been documenting hip-hop’s growing legacy and culture.

A selection of photographs from Nobel laureate Martin Karplus is on display at the Minda de Gunzburg Center’s Jacek E. Giedrojć Gallery until Jan. 13, 2020.

In “The Sound of My Soul: Frank Stewart’s Life in Jazz,” nearly 80 photographs large and small document Stewart’s fascination with capturing the country’s signature art form — one rooted in improvisation — on film.

In an excerpt from the essay “Museum of Broken Hearts,” Leslie Jamison, a 2004 Harvard grad, explores love, loss, and renewal through the relics of her relationships past.

In his 2019–2020 Kim and Judy Davis Dean’s Lecture in the Humanities, Joshua Jay offers listeners a look at techniques involving perception, attention, and surprise that he insists have practical applications well beyond the realm of magic.

The ArtLab, Harvard’s newest Allston lab, open its doors for some creative research.

Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and Climate Creatives are using art and design to create an event to help people see the urgent need to act on climate change.

Clint Smith is a writer and teacher whose collection of poetry, “Counting Descent,” was published in 2016. He is currently working on a doctoral dissertation exploring how people sentenced as juveniles to life without parole make meaning of education while incarcerated.