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.
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.
Theresa Reno-Weber is a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and a former lieutenant. She deployed to the Persian Gulf and served as a sea marshal on the first U.S.C.G. cutter to circumnavigate the world. Today, she is president and CEO of Metro United Way in Louisville, Kentucky.
Located on North Harvard Street, the ArtLab is the University’s latest Allston laboratory devoted to creative inquiry, research, and experimentation. Focused on interdisciplinary artistic collaboration, investigation, and connection, the ArtLab will be open to members of the University and the public this week.
“Winslow Homer: Eyewitness,” currently on view at the Harvard Art Museums, traces how the artist’s experience as an observer tasked with accurately documenting the conflict helped shape his career and informed much of his later output.
Carmen Arnold-Biucchi recently retired after almost two decades as the museums’ first curator of ancient coins. During her tenure she helped bring roughly 2,000 other coins to Harvard, small-scale works of art adorned with mythical creatures, ancient architecture, biblical references, important persons, and poignant dates.
In historian Philip Deloria’s new book, “Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract,” he re-examines the art of his “eccentric” great-aunt, particularly her 134 “personality prints,” three-panel pieces inspired, in many cases, by artists and celebrities including Babe Ruth, Gertrude Stein, and Amelia Earhart.
Stephanie Burt’s new book is a guide to understanding an art form that for many feels difficult to access. She talks about creating a “travel guide” for poetry.
Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will stage a fresh take on “Pride and Prejudice,” Jane Austen’s tale of 19th-century love, on June 23 courtesy of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project and playwright Kate Hamill.
A new pairing on a second-floor wall overlooking the Harvard Art Museums’ courtyard has placed self-portraits of contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall alongside that of 17th-century Dutch painter Nicolas Régnier.
Radcliffe fellow Tuna Şare-Ağtürk’s current book project documents the treasures unearthed at Nicomedia, an ancient Roman city and seat of power for the Emperor Diocletian.
American Repertory Theater announced today it has selected internationally renowned architects Haworth Tompkins to design its future home on Harvard’s Allston campus.
“I see him as an ambassador to the world,” Harvard alumnus Walter C. Sedgwick says about the “Prince Shōtoku” sculpture he donated to Harvard Art Museums. A recent visit to the museum stirred memories of visiting the sculpture every summer at his grandparents’ home.
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