Arts & Culture

Former Kennedy Center president urges steps to preserve vitality of the arts

In podcast, professionals share tips on technique, process — and tapping ‘deepest part of yourself, even if you’re writing something that is set on a spaceship’

Gish Jen’s ties with her mother were important, difficult. She examines why in new novel, ‘Bad Bad Girl.’

Authors of new translation dig into lasting impact of epic that Virgil wanted burned

Professor Stephanie Burt examines star’s influence, work ethic, why her music matters

Aphorism lover and historian James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media

Stephen Greenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of Christopher Marlowe

‘I think the audience needs more, and I feel I need to give more,’ says award-winning filmmaker — presenter of this year’s Norton talks

Panelists reflect on ‘incredible value’ of annual series as ‘megaphone’ for artists and scholars

Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.

New faculty Cécile Fromont is a visual problem solver

Before New Yorker covers, Barbara Westman created colorful visions of campus as Gazette’s first staff artist

Houghton exhibition celebrates legendary artist’s offbeat, macabre sensibility

7 Fingers co-founders explain how they unite the two art forms in their latest A.R.T. production

Curators and conservators at the Harvard Art Museums zoom in on the tiny details that tell big stories about some of their favorite works

‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ writer on taking risks in comedy and why getting laughs is worth near-constant rejection

Report on classroom literature shows staying power for ‘Gatsby,’ ‘Of Mice and Men,’ other classics. Time to move on?

The cosmos ‘is as weird and astonishing as any great work of art,’ argues Jennifer Roberts, and navigating it requires ‘a new kind of ethics’

Ivy Pochoda’s feminist retelling of ‘The Bacchae’ examines freedom from inhibition with Electronic Dance Music beat

Alum’s campus novel offers cautionary tale to biotech culture

Cambridge couple’s art collection now shines in Harvard Art Museums

Scholars contest novelist’s ‘rom-com’ rep as 250th anniversary ushers in new screen adaptations

Artist collective brings ‘intraterrestrial’ worlds to Peabody Museum 

Whether your seasonal plans include vacations or staycations, you’ll be transported if you’ve got a great book. Harvard Library staff share their faves.

Harvard faculty recommend bios of infamous historical figures

Stephanie Burt’s new anthology rounds up 51 works by queer and trans poets spanning generations

Scholars across range of disciplines weigh in on value of the activity amid rise of generative AI systems

Yeats poem inspires 3 songs and deep listening, discussion at Mahindra event

Harvard Arts Fest brings artmaking and creativity to campus

Visiting professor’s Venice Architecture Biennial project examines how to build renewable bridges between African, African diaspora communities