Arts & Culture

To honor its past and its future, Harvard will offer special exhibits on Oct. 4 and 5 during the inauguration of Larry Bacow, the University’s 29th president.

Eight expeditions to the Kalahari Desert by a Cambridge family in the 1950s yielded more than 40,000 photographs that captured hunter-gatherer cultures on the verge of disappearing. Many of the photos are now on view at Harvard’s Peabody Museum in a new exhibit, “Kalahari Perspectives: Anthropology, Photography, and the Marshall Family.”

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.

Mayra Rivera draws on her cross-disciplinary background in her role as Harvard’s faculty chair of the Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, Rights.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Highlights of what’s happening in music, theater, and art in Boston this fall.

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.

Fujiko Nakaya’s multisensory fog sculptures are on view at Harvard’s Arboretum and four other Emerald Necklace parks through Oct. 31.

“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.

A stage revival of the 1931 Langston Hughes poem “Black Clown” premiers at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater.

The Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit “Mutiny: Works by Géricault” engages with issues of social justice and race in the 19th century and today.

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.

Twenty-one Harvard students, faculty, staff, and alumni address climate change through poetry and art in “Weathering Change.”

Artist Teresita Fernández discusses the installation she created for Harvard Yard, “Autumn (… Nothing Personal).”

Seeking a fuller picture of the people recruited from around the world to work in the Midway, Peabody Museum enlists student help.

Harvard faculty, others reflect on one of the great voices and artists of the 20th century, Aretha Franklin.

“Passports: Lives in Transition” uses expired passports, visas, and photographs to tell personal stories of global events.

Harvard scholar Robin Bernstein hopes the archival work behind the recent publication of the slave narrative of Jane Clark will inspire other such projects.

Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”

“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.

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.

The Gazette spoke with fiction writer and Radcliffe fellow Lauren Groff about subversive prose, mothers and children, and crafting a vivid sense of place.

“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.

A Q&A with Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Gilead” trilogy and Iowa Writers’ Workshop emeritus.

Researchers, including Harvard’s Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, have learned much more about a Colonial-era copy of the Declaration of Independence.

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.

Harvard Art Museums introduces public to artist and activist David Wojnarowicz with film screenings on June 27.