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Rapper Tef Poe, 2016-2017 American Democracy Project Fellow at the Charles Warren Center, headlined a free concert at the Ed Portal, featuring poets and musicians from Boston and Poe's native St. Louis as well as a full performance of his latest album "Black Julian."

Tef Poe and friends ‘break bread’ at Ed Portal

Hip-hop artist headlines with free performance of latest album, ‘Black Julian’

DateJune 5, 2017June 5, 2017

Dawoud Bey’s photographs capturing the changes of a Harlem neighborhood are part of a new Cooper Gallery exhibit at Harvard.

Images of Harlem, then and now

Dawoud Bey’s photographs of keystone neighborhood are part of Cooper Gallery exhibit

DateJune 1, 2017December 15, 2017

In just two years, the Theater, Dance & Media Department (TDM) has seen extensive growth in concentrators and output. During rehearsal for "Far Away," TDM's latest theater production, Director Annie Tippe (left) and Assistant Director Sarah Grammar '18 give direction to actors.

A concentration’s first growth spurt

Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media program turns 2, and has ambitions

DateMay 24, 2017May 24, 2017

"Arrabal" explores the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship through tango and music. The American Repertory Theater performance is based on a book written by John Weidman ’68.

Tango with a serious message

New American Repertory Theater show explores the legacy of Argentina’s brutal military regime through music and dance

DateMay 17, 2017May 17, 2017

Harvard Art Museums' new exhibit “The Philosophy Chamber" is a recreation of the eponymous room located in Harvard Hall between 1766 and 1820. Paul Revere's engraving "A Westerly View of the Colledges in Cambridge, New England” (c. 1767) depicts Harvard in the late Colonial Era. Harvard Hall is the large building with the cupola.

Reviving the Philosophy Chamber

Hub of art, science, and ideas is re-created at Harvard Art Museums

DateMay 16, 2017May 18, 2017

The Marshall family documented their expeditions into the Kalahari with 40,000 photos, numerous notebooks, letters, and diaries. Peabody curator Ilisa Barbash used these as the basis for her book, “Where the Roads All End: The Marshall Family’s Kalahari Photography,” which she presented in a talk last week.

'Where the Roads All End' is where story begins

Peabody curator offers in-depth look at Marshall family's collection and impact of their presence

DateMay 15, 2017

Graduate student La’Toya Princess Jackson ’19 presents her original ballet, “Vanity Lane,” during DanceFest at Arts First.

‘Vanity Lane’ wasn’t always an easy path

Graduate student’s original ballet reflects creative collaboration

DateMay 10, 2017October 23, 2017

Harvard student John F. Kennedy studies at his desk ca. 1939. Credit: John F. Kennedy Library and Museum

JFK speaks from his Harvard past

Centennial exhibit includes earliest known recording of future president’s voice

DateMay 9, 2017January 26, 2018

A hand-carved effigy pipe of a flying man dressed in a sailor’s uniform, with an ornate pineapple design on his pants is one of the rarely seen treasures on exhibit. Gift of Frederick H. Rindge, Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, © President and Fellows of Harvard College

The world in an exhibit

As Peabody Museum turns 150, new exhibition highlights pioneering efforts and legacy of cultural history

DateMay 5, 2017May 5, 2017

Star turn for Harvard arts

Damon, Paulus, Vance lead celebration of campus creativity

DateMay 2, 2017December 15, 2017

Rare artifacts from the Harvard Theatre Collection

Three centuries of the arts and humanities are reflected in curios and props at Houghton Library

DateApril 27, 2017April 27, 2017

Ten years after founding the annual festival, John Lithgow ’67, Art.D. '05, acts as the grand marshall of the Arts First parade in 2002. Lithgow will receive the Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony that will kick off the 25th Arts First festival.

Arts First at 25

Organizers and participants reflect on festival’s evolution and impact

DateApril 26, 2017April 26, 2017

The Harvard Ed Portal has become a key player in the cultural renaissance in the Allston-Brighton community, where University students can give back, emerging artists can share their work, and local residents can discover new experiences.

Creative momentum at the Ed Portal

Allston-Brighton welcomes programs in visual arts, ceramics, and more

DateApril 25, 2017October 23, 2017

David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History and Harvard College Professor Jill Lepore is featured in the Decisions and Revisions writing series. She is pictured in her home in Cambridge.

The art of the matter

Historian Jill Lepore writes her arguments to life

DateApril 25, 2017May 11, 2018

Writers from Harvard's Scholars at Risk Program toured a selection of books and literary artifacts at Houghton Library prior to a panel discussion. The ephemera included the handwritten manuscript copy of the poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allen Poe and a fragment of Arabic script on papyrus from 600 B.C.

When words spell danger

6 writers at risk explain how their work trumps threats

DateApril 24, 2017

The Harvard University Committee on the Arts presented Movement Lab, an open house master class taught by dancers, Christopher Roman and Jill Johnson at Harvard Art Museums' Calderwood Courtyard.

Classical space, modern dance

New William Forsythe dance piece complements quiet settings of library, museum

DateApril 21, 2017October 5, 2017

The parchment the Declaration in Congress of the thirteen United States of America (pictured) was written on caught Emily Sneff's attention. Sneff, a researcher with the Declaration Resources Project, also found names weren't in the right order and "it’s in a handwriting I hadn’t seen before."

A hidden Declaration

Scholar Danielle Allen: ‘We knew we had a mystery. We had a big, big mystery.’

DateApril 21, 2017April 25, 2017

Musicians Amanda Palmer and Damon Krukowski discuss the transition from analog to digital recording and what's been lost in the process.

Sounding off for noises on

Musicians Amanda Palmer and Damon Krukowski talk analog vs. digital

DateApril 20, 2017

Dancers Jill Johnson and Christopher Roman will perform choreographer William Forsyth's “Catalogue (First Edition)” to kick off a two-day celebration of the choreographer and the discipline in the Widener Library Rotunda.

A ‘Catalogue’ of dance

William Forsythe work will be first live performance at Widener Library

DateApril 18, 2017April 21, 2017

A glass window frames The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) exhibit, "Scale: A Matter of Perspective," examines the concept of scale and its power to transform perceptions of the world and our place in it, inviting visitors to make connections to the world in surprising new ways.

'Scale' tells the story of how, and what, we measure

Museum exhibit explores how perspective changes understanding

DateApril 18, 2017January 26, 2018

Moderator Tony Saich (from left), Ash Center director and Daewoo Professor of International Affairs, leads the discussion with Vietnam Program Director Thomas Vallely, filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, and producer Sarah Botstein before screening a preview of "The Vietnam War" at the Harvard Art Museums.

A film to ‘unpack’ Vietnam

Ken Burns offers preview of work that probes a war with endless echoes

DateApril 14, 2017April 14, 2017

Matthew DeShaw '18 (second from left) takes a selfie with a few members of his Classical Studies 112 class in the early morning near the volcanically active Mount Etna.

A transformative trip

‘Regional Study of Sicily’ turns student into ‘a true classicist’

DateApril 11, 2017

Grammy-winning vocalist and jazz master in residence Cassandra Wilson sings and directs the Harvard Jazz Bands in preparation for their performance at Sanders Theatre on Saturday, April 8.

Cassandra Wilson’s voice of wisdom

Ahead of concert, jazz great connects with students

DateApril 6, 2017December 15, 2017

Writer Gish Jen's latest book, “The Girl at the Baggage Claim: Explaining the East-West Culture Gap,” explores the nearly diametrically opposed ideas about the self and society found in Western and Eastern cultures.

‘Baggage’ claims Gish Jen

Author discusses new book and East-West culture gap

DateApril 4, 2017April 5, 2017

Many women in jazz feel “caught between their love of jazz and the way their gender is often considered out of place within it,” says Ingrid Monson, Quincy Jones Professor of African American Music, but “we’re at a cultural turning point" in our attitudes towards female musicians.

Trumpeting women in jazz

Inroads finally seem possible in what traditionally has been a man’s musical world

DateApril 3, 2017April 4, 2017

Director Terence Davies speaks to the Gazette about making his Emily Dickinson biopic "A Quiet Passion" and his empathy for Dickinson's infamous quirks.

Emily Dickinson, on the screen

Director Terence Davies visits to show new film, explain affinity with famed poet

DateMarch 24, 2017December 15, 2017

One of the great triumphs of Winslow Homer's "Summer Night," says Harvard Art Museums' Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director Martha Tedeschi, is its ability to evoke sensations — such as the music the women are dancing to — that are otherwise impossible to put into visual art.

The magic and moonlight of Winslow Homer

With borrowed seascape as backdrop, Harvard Art Museums director explores what made the artist so singular

DateMarch 20, 2017March 20, 2017

Though a bout with mental illness forced Miguel Garcia '17 to take a leave of absence in 2012, his studies in the humanities have provided cathartic insight into his journey back to health. “Both the study of history and literature deal with the nuances of the human experience — the beautiful, the brutal, and the mundane."

Hitting the books after hitting a wall

Miguel Garcia ’17 returns from mental health struggle with new perspective on life, literature, and his future

DateMarch 20, 2017October 10, 2017

Professor Maria Tatar shares her hopes for Disney’s live-action “Beauty and the Beast” in the first episode of the Gazette’s new podcast series.

‘Heard at Harvard’ spans art, culture, science, politics

Fairy tale expert Maria Tatar talks ‘Beauty in the Beast’ in first episode of new podcast series

DateMarch 16, 2017March 17, 2017

“The time is right,” said David Chambers, a visiting professor in Theater, Dance & Media. “We have to have a community consensus that we can’t physically hurt each other, but we can argue passionately, be controversial, and turn humor into a flamethrower.”

No rest for the witty

Writers and performers re-energize long tradition of mining D.C. for comedy gold

DateMarch 15, 2017March 16, 2017

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