Arts & Culture

Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.

Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.

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.

Author Julie Orringer’s latest novel, “The Flight Portfolio,” tells the story of Harvard graduate Varian Fry, a journalist and editor sometimes referred to as the “American Schindler,” who worked in France during World War II to help save Jewish members of Europe’s cultural elite from Nazi concentration camps. Orringer worked on the book during a Radcliffe fellowship.

Brothers Daniel and Patrick Lazour’s musical, “We Live in Cairo,” brings the immediacy of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution to the American Repertory Theater on May 14.

Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D.

In June, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will host an Actors’ Shakespeare Project production of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” adapted by Kate Hamill, in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden.

The rapper and record producer Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz, and his wife, Alicia Keys, own the largest private collection of Gordon Parks’ photographs in the world. They’re sharing it at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, and that’s just the beginning.

Poet laureate Tracy K. Smith wins the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal at a ceremony Thursday in Agassiz Theater, kicking off Arts First weekend.

The new exhibit “Into Place,” represents many of the capstone projects of recent graduates or current Harvard Ph.D. students pursuing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice, a 10-year-old program that expands the way students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences engage with their scholarship.

A new fellowship program brings practicing artists to Harvard’s campus.

This weekend’s Arts First festival showcases performances, exhibitions, and art-making opportunities for and by Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, including international dance, many music genres, stand-up and improv comedy, theater, public art, poetry, experimental performances, and much more.

Backed by the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, documentary photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews visited the region around the Caspian Sea, capturing on film the culture, customs, and inhabitants of the area whose reserves of oil, gas, and other natural resources are inextricably tied to life in the region. Her work produced a book and an exhibit now on view at Harvard.

The American Repertory Theater’s upcoming season lineup will include three world premieres.

Harvard community members who’ve taken Gaga dance courses have found the technique helps them let go of external pressures and focus their energy inward, achieving self-care and healing.

Neurology Professor Julian Fisher explores Massachusetts to tell stories of middle-class Americans through photography.

A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”

A course at Harvard teaches students about the real-world Game of Thrones.

Student-penned musical “The East Side” puts the spotlight on the Harvard Asian Student Arts Project.

Students reflect on a transformative semester on campus as part of The Transcript Project, now in its second year.

A Q&A with author and journalist Francisco Goldman.

Willie Cole brings his art to the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study with “Willie Cole: Beauties.”

Senior researcher at Project Zero and Boston College Professor of Psychology Ellen Winner’s latest book, “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration,” is based on years of research both at Harvard and BC, and looks at art through psychological and philosophical lenses.

The student-run Identities Fashion Show embraces all types of bodies and backgrounds. But for its board members, it’s a lot of work and a yearlong commitment.

Before an Askwith Hall audience, stars from “Kim’s Convenience” and “Fresh Off the Boat” explored how the landscape is shifting for Asian stories, defying stereotype and allowing authentic identities.

To get at exactly how the art market and the public drive up the cost of fine art, the Gazette spoke with some experts in the field.

The elegance and rhythm of nature powerfully captured through photographer Chris Morgan’s lens is revealed at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.