Arts & Culture
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A life — and afterlife — in poetry
For Christian Wiman, ‘dead on the table’ more than once, suffering is no longer the only authentic thing
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7 hours later, they didn’t want it to end
Who watches a 439-minute movie in an age of epic distraction? We asked.
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‘Black Swan’ as a musical?
New adaptation of dark, psychological thriller film premieres at American Repertory Theater
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Iranian history in tableaux
Photographer brings 11 key scenes from 20th century to life in Peabody exhibit
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Want to avoid being replaced by AI? Think fresh verbs.
Former Pulitzer-winning Post dance critic explains how to level up writing in new book
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Uncovering histories of us
Schlesinger Library’s scrapbook collection offers scholars insights into hidden stories, texture of everyday life in bygone eras
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Shifting the ‘Horizon’
In a trip to Iceland over the summer, Joanne Cheung worked with researchers to capture 360-degree video of the changing landscape.
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Ahead: ‘Hamilton,’ Boston Calling, and more
It’s possible to start making concert and theater plans now, when most of the best seats are still available. This is when the year’s big-ticket events are booked and announced, the better to build a buzz around them.
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Deaf dancer feels the beat
Deaf dancer Antoine Hunter leads a master class that provides lessons in movement and inclusion.
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Modern opera with an old soul
Pianist-composer Matt Aucoin ’12 is now co-artistic director of the American Modern Opera Company, set for Harvard performances Dec. 15-18.
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Bringing out the edge in Austen’s wit
Playwright Kate Hamill’s adaptation of “Sense & Sensibility,” at the A.R.T. through Jan. 14, accentuates Jane Austen’s gift for comedy.
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The need to talk about race
Lawyer and social activist Bryan Stevenson delivered the Tanner Lecture on Human Values, announcing the opening of a memorial to victims of lynching and a museum on the legacy of slavery next April.
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Art and technology explored during region-wide collaboration
This winter, a dozen cultural organizations throughout Greater Boston — including three from Harvard — are partnering to present an ambitious, region-wide exploration of art and technology.
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Storytelling as a global force
English Professor Martin Puchner talks to the Gazette about his new book “The Written World,” about how literature shaped civilization.
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Take a seat … and the city’s pulse
A Harvard professor’s sculpture translates real-time data into soundscapes.
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Harvard acquires new work by Kara Walker
“Powerhouse of a work” by top contemporary artist Kara Walker is the largest piece in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums.
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Not easily persuasive
Visiting professor and Washington Post political columnist E.J. Dionne on how he started as a journalist, self-editing, and the art of persuasion.
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Scholar’s eye for fashion
Harvard senior Lily Calcagnini’s history and literature concentration places fashion front and center in cultural theory.
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A more collaborative Carpenter Center
Dan Byers wants to build community around contemporary art as new director of the Carpenter Center.
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We speak, therefore we are
Divinity School alum and indigenous Maskoke person Marcus Briggs-Cloud discusses his efforts to maintain his ancestral language and identity in the next installment of the Gazette’s podcast “Heard at Harvard.”
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The world according to Conrad
Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”
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Preserving a culture, one speaker at a time
Since 1996, the Yuchi Language Project has been fighting to preserve the language of the Yuchi people.
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Turn on, tune in, geek out
Houghton Library displays highlights from the 50,000 pieces inherited from a billionaire collector who was obsessed with the search for transcendence through sex, drugs, and rock ’n ’roll.
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How a curator sees $450M Leonardo
Insight from Cassandra Albinson of Harvard Art Museums on the $450.3 million sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”
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Michael Ondaatje goes deep into character
Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient” and other novels, read passages from his work and took questions on his creative process during a Harvard forum.
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Parsing the poet, Bob Dylan
A Harvard professor’s new book probes the influence of the great ancient poets, such as Homer and Virgil, on Bob Dylan and his music.
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More Dutch treasures for Harvard
Harvard Art Museums has announced a major gift of Dutch Golden Age drawings from the Maida and George Abrams collection.
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The incomparable da Vinci
Author and Harvard alumnus Walter Isaacson takes on the ultimate Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci.
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Stephanie Burt opens up
The Harvard poet discusses new book of poetry, life as a trans woman, and settling in as as co-poetry editor of The Nation.
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Pain, joy, and wisdom
Four Harvard professors engage students in a weekly dialogue that looks at wisdom as it relates to how we experience the world, and the strategies we need to have a moral life amid uncertainty.
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Ideas (and sneakers) were in the air
Designer Virgil Abloh’s Harvard lecture mirrored his multiplatform career: bold, dynamic, and audacious.
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Music and meaning, the Marsalis way
Wynton Marsalis was back at Harvard on Monday night to celebrate the release of the video version of his first lecture performance at Harvard from 2011, “Music as Metaphor,” and to discuss the importance of the arts.
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Feejee Mermaid is unattractive attraction
Feejee Mermaid offers haunting image at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.
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Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt
The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.
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Honoring Mexican discovery
A Harvard delegation traveled to Mexico to take part in the inaugural talk of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series.
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The queen of Halloween
Harvard Music Department administrator Lesley Bannatyne’s other life is as a Halloween expert. She has written five books on the topic, including a children’s work.