Arts & Culture
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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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Historic collab: Harvard’s Glee Club, Fisk’s Jubilee Singers
Two of nation’s most storied collegiate choirs join to share, perform in Nashville
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A lost archive of Black history
25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record
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When a fictional character becomes too real
Why Catherine Lacey can’t avoid ‘terrifying’ disclosures on the page and every story feels like her last
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How to dance like somebody’s watching
Choreographer offers tips on finding release: ‘Ain’t nobody concerned if you look good’
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Harvard archivists’ favorite finds
Library staff pick objects that tell story of both University, America for ‘Inside Out’ exhibit
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‘Singin’ in the Rain’ this isn’t
But palliative-care specialist who advised on ‘Night Side Songs’ says new musical about cancer patient is rich, moving
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‘Everybody feels like two people’
Alum who co-produces ‘Severance’ says show speaks to real-life mysteries
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Patricia Lockwood wants you to admit the internet is real life
In Harvard talk, author riffs on ‘cloistered’ upbringing, crafting characters through dialogue, working in bed vs. on couch
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For 100 years, a top stop for the world’s medievalists
800 academics convened in Harvard Yard for workshops, presentations, and discussion
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We used to read more, scream less
How has the internet changed fiction? 8 writers weigh in.
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Uncovering the palette of the past
Project maps pigments used in South Asian art
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An architect-detective’s medieval mystery
Exhibit traces scholar’s quest to reconstruct abbey destroyed after French Revolution
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‘Two Human Beings,’ again and again
An exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums asks what we can learn from Edvard Munch’s 40-year obsession with a man and woman at the shore.
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He was walking in Washington and just like that he was gone
Geraldine Brooks traces painful, disorienting pendulum-swing of grief after losing Tony Horwitz, her husband of 35 years
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How to read like a translator
Damion Searls ’92 talks process, sentence structure, and what makes a chair a chair
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Science? Yes. Fiction? Maybe.
Sci-fi books recommended by faculty, staff probe AI, humanity, censorship
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‘The Odyssey’ is having a moment. Again.
Classicist Greg Nagy on story’s epic appeal, his favorite translation, and ‘journey of the soul’ that awaits new readers
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Showing that Black lives matter — everywhere
In a new book, music professor considers race in all its facets
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On fiction, grief, and, most of all, ‘radical honesty’
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares with readers the story behind ‘Dream Count,’ a novel she was scared she’d never finish
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Art as omen in turbulent times
In new book, Joseph Koerner dissects reaction to 3 works created during political unrest
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Every picture tells a story
Photographer Susan Meiselas shares how ‘44 Irving Street Cambridge, MA’ shaped her career
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Wishing real world wasn’t starting to feel so much like her dystopian novel
Celeste Ng discusses new book about mother and son, how the personal becomes political — and vice versa
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Letting the portraits speak for themselves
New exhibit elevates overlooked voices as it explores hope, change, and how we see other
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Decoding David Lynch’s ‘familiar yet strange’ cinematic language
Film Archive pays tribute with 3 films that ‘need to be seen on the big screen’
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Better than the book?
Faculty recommend their favorite reads adapted for the silver screen … and maybe even improved in the process
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Art from all corners
Office for the Arts celebrates 50 years with storytelling, music, dance, poetry, and more
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‘A voice that must be heard’
Grammy winner, Mexican classical composer Gabriela Ortiz on taking inspiration from folk music, ‘Glitter Revolution’ protests
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Choice is a good thing. Right?
Historian explores how having options became synonymous with freedom — and why it doesn’t always feel that way
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Welcome to age of the will to ignorance
Political scientist, historian examines why so many embrace ‘magical thinking that crowds out common sense and expertise’ in new book
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Star of new ‘Odyssey’ adaptation? Your imagination.
Puppet designer on power of negative space to provoke emotion — and creating a convincing Cyclops
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Tech has changed. Dating? It’s complicated.
If you think algorithms and chatbots are ruining romance, ‘Labor of Love’ author has a history lesson for you
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Edvard Munch prints, paintings gifted to Harvard Art Museums
Works will go on display in March exhibition, examining the artist’s experimental printmaking and painting techniques
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An archaeological record that doubles as art
Painter captured ancient Egyptian tomb’s secrets in vivid brushstrokes