Arts & Culture
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Edvard Munch prints, paintings gifted to Harvard Art Museums
Works will go on display in March exhibition, examining the artist’s experimental printmaking and painting techniques
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An archaeological record that doubles as art
Painter captured ancient Egyptian tomb’s secrets in vivid brushstrokes
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Why are so many novels set at Harvard?
Beth Blum notes campus is beautiful, romantic setting that lends itself to exploring collision of ideals, reality
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More than kind of blue
Imani Perry’s lyrical new book weaves memoir, history to consider central place of a color in Black America
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How maps (and cyclists) paved way for roads
Curator takes alternative route through cartographic history and finds a few surprises
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Voice of a generation? Dylan’s is much more than that.
Classics professor who wrote ‘Why Bob Dylan Matters’ on the challenge of capturing a master of creative evasion
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‘Lens of Love’ focuses on justice
The Rev. Jonathan Walton’s new book, “A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in its World for Our World,” is an exploration of his interpretive approach, which reads biblical stories through the eyes of the vulnerable and marginalized.
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Where ideas, tensions converge
Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard’s faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.
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Behind an eerie sound, science, espionage, and dashed dreams
Dorit Chrysler, a musicologist, composer, and leading thereminist, sat down with Harvard physicist John Huth at the Radcliffe Institute on for a conversation set to music.
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Intoxicating art
Nearly 60 examples of animal-shaped drinking objects make up “Animal-Shaped Vessels from the Ancient World: Feasting with Gods, Heroes, and Kings,” a new Harvard Art Museums exhibit that celebrates artistry and the exchange of ideas across cultures and centuries.
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At GSD, a tale of four cities
At the Graduate School of Design, the exhibit “Urban Intermedia” stands as “an experiment and the beginning of an ongoing discussion on new kinds of practices around the study of cities,” said co-curator Eve Blau.
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Dancing with the future
A multimedia production incorporates dance, music, and spoken word to explore how humans might cooperate with future generations to try to solve problems like climate change. “Dancing with the Future” will premiere at Farkas Hall on Sept. 25.
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What’s up in Boston’s fall arts scene
Highlights of what’s happening in music, theater, and art in Boston this fall.
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‘Late Night’ with Degas and van Gogh
Harvard Art Museums opens its door for Student Late Night, giving students an intimate look at its premier art collection and jumpstarting the student-museum relationship that is uniquely available to Harvard affiliates.
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Nakaya’s fog sculptures lift Boston parks
Fujiko Nakaya’s multisensory fog sculptures are on view at Harvard’s Arboretum and four other Emerald Necklace parks through Oct. 31.
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Following Bergman into the dark
“Darkness Unto Light: The Cinema of Ingmar Bergman” shows at the Harvard Film Archive, as well as Brookline’s Coolidge Corner Cinema and Harvard Square’s Brattle Theatre, through Oct. 14.
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Voicing the moods of Langston Hughes
A stage revival of the 1931 Langston Hughes poem “Black Clown” premiers at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater.
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An artist of his times, and ahead of them
The Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit “Mutiny: Works by Géricault” engages with issues of social justice and race in the 19th century and today.
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Terry Tempest Williams, in thought
In an interview, environmental writer and activist Terry Tempest Williams talks about what she learned during a year as a writer in residence at the Harvard Divinity School.
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‘Weathering Change’
Twenty-one Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni address climate change through poetry and art in “Weathering Change.”
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A luminous vision for Harvard Yard
Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”
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Putting a new face, and new faces, on the 1893 World’s Fair
Seeking a fuller picture of the people recruited from around the world to work in the Midway, Peabody Museum enlists student help.
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Reflections on the ‘Queen of Soul’
Harvard faculty, others reflect on one of the great voices and artists of the 20th century, Aretha Franklin.
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A ‘Passport’ to other lives, places, times
“Passports: Lives in Transition” uses expired passports, visas, and photographs to tell personal stories of global events.
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Second life for slave narrative
Harvard scholar Robin Bernstein hopes the archival work behind the recent publication of the slave narrative of Jane Clark will inspire other such projects.
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Horror’s human side
Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”
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The deepest colors you’ll ever see
“I wanted to make the viewers feel they were transported to the bottom of the ocean,” says Lily Simonson about her exhibit “Painting the Deep,” on view at Harvard Museum of Natural History.
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Religious education through new eyes
A “life-changing” method of teaching religious studies learned at Harvard Divinity School’s Religious Literacy Project is now helping high school students view world faiths with new eyes.
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Alienation proves fertile state of mind for Lauren Groff
The Gazette spoke with fiction writer and Radcliffe fellow Lauren Groff about subversive prose, mothers and children, and crafting a vivid sense of place.
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Radical, playful, plugged in
“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.
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For Marilynne Robinson, literary explorer, gifts of language reward journey
A Q&A with Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Gilead” trilogy and Iowa Writers’ Workshop emeritus.
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Declaration of authenticity
Researchers, including Harvard’s Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, have learned much more about a Colonial-era copy of the Declaration of Independence.
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Poetry with personages
For her new TV show, the Harvard professor sits down with the likes of Bono, Bill Clinton, and Shaquille O’Neal for in-depth discussions of one poem in each 24-minute episode.
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David Wojnarowicz’s ‘Transgressions’ resurrected
Harvard Art Museums introduces public to artist and activist David Wojnarowicz with film screenings on June 27.
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‘Secular sermons,’ straight to your phone
A discussion with “Ministry of Ideas” host Zachary Davis, M.T.S. ’19, about the unique power of podcasts and the need for greater religious literacy in America.
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Early goals for new curator
When Soyoung Lee takes the reins as the Harvard Art Museums’ chief curator in September, she will be joining the institution at a vibrant time, with some goals already clear.