Since 2009, three of Harvard’s main arts positions have changed hands. The fresh leaders of the music, dance, and choral spheres represent an important new direction for the arts.
Harvard Professor Jill Lepore led off a murderers’ row lineup of six Harvard professors for “GenEd at Bat: A Discussion of America’s Favorite Pastime with the Faculty of Gen Ed” at Science Center A on Tuesday.
A tactile exhibit called “Cold War in the Classroom” views recent history through the artifacts of a dangerous era, the tensions from which penetrated American schools.
The Silk Road Ensemble, a group of musicians from around the world led by famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma, was at Harvard for a weeklong residency, helping students to compose, playing with undergraduates, exploring the link between business and the arts, and discussing arts and education.
Harvard President Drew Faust will host a panel discussion Nov. 15 with the alumni behind the groundbreaking opera “Nixon in China” as part of Harvard’s 375th anniversary celebration.
Harvard’s new director of the OFA Dance Program, Jill Johnson, brings a love of movement and a boundless curiosity to the post and a desire to connect her disciplines to a range of academic pursuits.
Students from the Boston Arts Academy got some positive reinforcement today when they came to Harvard University for a special panel discussion with celebrated jazz musician Wynton Marsalis.
Before a rapt audience at Sanders Theatre, jazz great Wynton Marsalis explored the history of American dance in the second lecture in a two-year series, “Hidden in Plain View: Meanings in American Music.”
Common Spaces, the initiative that encourages community in and around Harvard Yard, kicked off its fall programming with four songs by the cast of the American Repertory Theater’s “The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess.”
A new exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum explores how the rich exchanges between artists and scholars of the 16th century advanced the creation and dissemination of knowledge.
A Harvard historian weighs in on a controversy about “black Confederates,” describing how many there were and what meaning they have in an ongoing debate over the causes of the Civil War.
The Harvard Museum of Natural History celebrates the world of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter in a gallery scavenger hunt that has proven to be a popular and educational experience.
A Radcliffe Fellow is working on an opera about the world’s love affair with coffee and how it grew from the bean that made goats jittery to the potion we all get jittery for.
Through an innovative program, immigrants explore the Harvard Art Museums’ galleries, polishing their English skills and learning lessons in American democracy.
The new Transit Gallery in Gordon Hall at Harvard Medical School lets students and staffers appreciate the fine arts while getting from place to place.
The 2011 Elliot Norton Awards, awarded on May 23 at the Paramount Theatre in Boston, honored the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.) with six awards in the Large Theater category.
A handful of authors featured in Harvard Bound over the past year answer the question: What is an essential book for today’s graduates — and why? Here are their suggestions as the newest Harvard degree-holders head out into the world.
Actress and playwright Amy Brenneman and longtime collaborator Sabrina Peck, both Harvard graduates, reunite at the American Repertory Theater to present their play about spirituality, fame, and a debilitating illness.
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