Arts & Culture

A reading list for the new school year.

The struggle for racial justice has always had a soundtrack. Charrise Barron explores its evolution from gospel to hip-hop.

Pulitzer-winning novelist, academic Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss colonization, otherness in Norton Lectures.

A.R.T., ArtsThursdays event centers on the 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child, kicking off monthlong arts programming on migration and immigration.

Fantasy worlds from Middle Earth to Westeros come to life in Harvard Library exhibit.

Do: Ask questions and keep an open mind. Don’t: Say your child could’ve made that.

The early photo technique — and stories of people in front of, behind camera — get new exposure as Harvard digitizes vast collection.

Women entertainers are dominating the summer. Lecturer in women, gender, and sexuality discusses the forces at play.

Fourteen suggestions for books to take you places you’ve never been, full of new people, unaccustomed sights, smells, tastes.

Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI

Experts weigh in on pop superstar’s cultural and financial impact as her tours and albums continue to break records.

From planning a film festival to researching arts-based sex education, students find “real-world” applications for their chosen passions.

Scholarly wisdom for readers beating their heads against a great work of literature: Stop doing that

Music and comedy meet queer and Jewish radicalism in Morgan Bassichis exhibit at the Carpenter Center.

In “The Streets of Newtowne: A Story of Cambridge, MA.” professor tells the story of city from Indigenous origins to present in children’s book illustrated by alum.

Tiya Miles’ research on Cherokee slaveholding sparked her first novel. A recent tribal reckoning led her to revisit it.

Emmett G. Price III examines genre’s history, staying power — and “intentionality” of recognition in recent years from elite cultural institutions.

Sammi Cannold discusses her vision for the iconic musical as she introduces “Evita” to a new generation of artists and audiences at the American Repertory Theater.

YouTube star, student, and a ghost called Swan collide in junior’s award-winning play exploring queerness, self-discovery.

Exhibit goes beyond idyllic landscapes to cramped apartment, 19th-century wardrobe malfunction, cancer-defying self-portraits.

Poetry critic reflects on “thrilling” career, writers who inspire, declining support for humanities.

A Wadsworth Atheneum show, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Skip Gates, explores Douglass’ embrace of the emerging art of photography.

Emerita professor recalls childhood as Holocaust refugee in memoir “Daughter of History.”

“Mortality got my attention. And it was — as we are told to believe but rarely do — a gift,” says the acclaimed poet, whose latest collection, “To 2040,” looks at the many crises shadowing what she calls “the human project.”

Arts First took over stages, museums, and other venues across Harvard’s campus during the four-day festival.

Photographer Zhang Xiao documented the Shehuo festival over a decade of modernization, creating a portrait of how traditional practices sustain themselves amid rapid change. The new bilingual photographic exhibition “Shehuo: Community Fire” is at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

“Marine Debris Fashion Show,” a student design competition featuring outfits made from items humans dumped in oceans, was a highlight of the Arts First Festival.

Eight student poets pick a corner of the city with historical, personal meaning and read an original work.

New play to debut at Arts First Festival examines relationship between technology, humanity, and theater.

Sculpture, technology merge in Ceramics Program as tool offers students another way to work with clay.