Arts & Culture

The composer for “La La Land” met his Hollywood collaborator, Damien Chazelle, and charted his musical path while at Harvard.

New research by Derek Miller, an assistant professor of English, highlights the starring role of “decidedly average” in the history of art.

Molly Antopol, a Radcliffe Fellow and author of “The UnAmericans,” talks about the creative process behind her fiction.

Harvard’s creative writing program is growing in creativity and size.

Lighting designer Jen Schriever talks about her vision for the A.R.T.’s adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel “Fingersmith.”

Professor Alex Rehding talks about his research for a book on Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.

Native American potters offer hands-on insights into centuries-year-old artistry.

The Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society premiered Paul Moravec’s composition at a holiday concert.

Harvard philosopher Tommie Shelby talks about his new book, “Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform.”

When someone makes a racially charged comment or joke, how would you respond? Research led by Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont says your answer may very well depend on the group to which you belong.

New Dumbarton Oaks humanities fellowship mixes study and career preparation.

A sample of Vantablack, as dark as dark can get according to its maker, is now part of the pigments collection at Harvard Art Museums.

A profile of College student and pop-rocker Brynn Elliott, whose scholarship in philosophy informs her songwriting.

For College student Jasper Johnston ’20, discovering Harvard is a shared experience through Instagram.

“Calm. Smoke rises vertically” at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery is designed for the blind and hearing-impaired, but gives the sighted a unique experience as well.

In winning Phi Beta Kappa’s 2016 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award for “The Murder of William of Norwich,” E.M. Rose, a visiting scholar at Harvard, found recognition by illuminating the real history behind an imaginary event.

New Carpenter Center exhibition examines the challenge of historicizing Chilean art created during the repressive Pinochet regime.

A new library exhibit will explore the 350-year-old relationship between the U.S. military and Harvard University.

College seniors opt to have fun, be themselves, and leave comfort zones through their participation in the Expressions Dance Company.

The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments’ Special Exhibition Gallery takes visitors back to the golden age of radio.

Pianist and composer Randy Weston visits campus on the eve of Harvard acquiring his personal archive.

Harvard physicist John Huth took some time off from chasing subatomic particles in Geneva to trace his ancestors’ Alpine trek through persecution back to the valleys they called home.

A group of avant-garde women involved in Boston’s community radio scene in the 1970s and ’80s gathered for a soulful reunion that showcased the feminist movement.

The sculptural artist Christo discusses the impetus and execution of his latest projects while speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Harry Yeff, better known as beatboxer Reeps One, speaks to the Gazette about finding his voice, bringing it to the classroom, and leaving it on the stage.

Sculptor Nora Schultz, a new VES assistant professor, spoke to the Gazette about her influences, her fascination with robotics, and how her own projects inform her teaching.

Oberon’s presentation of “The Garden” is an intimate, inside-out theater experience for tiny audiences.

Recently the Harvard Art Museums acquired the evocative “A Flor de Piel,” a room-sized tapestry by contemporary Colombian artist Doris Salcedo made of thousands of dyed rose petals stitched together to form a giant burial shroud. For the director of Harvard’s Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, this was a first.

The words “Folding, Refraction, Touch” provided a useful framework for the Busch-Reisinger Museum’s exhibition of works by Wolfgang Tillmans and other modern and contemporary artists in dialogue with the German photographer.

A Harvard Divinity School lecturer says that to understand where the University is, it’s important to see where it’s been.