Arts & Culture

All Arts & Culture

  • Where art and advertising collide

    A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.

  • Food for thought

    A weeklong seminar at the Radcliffe Institute examines cookbooks through the centuries, and what they say about the practices, resources, and cultures of their times.

  • T.S. Eliot, warts and all

    An intimate exhibition at Houghton Library offers a revealing look at the early life of poet T.S. Eliot, who had his troubles as a Harvard student.

  • Innovations from southern Europe

    Gabriel Paquette, author and research associate at Harvard’s DRCLAS, says southern Europe and its Atlantic colonies in the 18th century were hardly the backward regions that people believe they were.

  • Palestinians on the screen

    Filmmaker and visual artist Kamal Aljafari incorporates the past and present in his deeply personal films about the Middle East.

  • What they’re reading

    A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.

  • An explosion of creativity

    The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”

  • Looking for his big break

    Graduating senior Derek Mueller spent a lot of time being theatrical with Harvard’s Hasty Pudding troupe, and is now heading to Los Angeles and the entertainment world.

  • Art, printmaking, and science

    Students in a History of Science class worked to create an exhibit that illustrates the importance of print technologies and printmaking, not only to the dissemination of scientific knowledge in early modern Europe, but also to its creation.

  • Slavery in the North, and more

    Du Bois Institute hosts a book party celebrating former and current fellows’ recent publications, including a title that examines little-known slavery in the North.

  • A complicated Lincoln

    A collection of scholars painted a complex, complicated, and rich picture of the nation’s 16th president during a two-day symposium at Harvard April 24-25.

  • What comes after

    Joanna Klink, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in the English Department, is out with a new book chronicling a failed relationship.

  • The Power of Social Innovation: How Civic Entrepreneurs Ignite Community Networks for Good

    Stephen Goldsmith, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Daniel Paul Professor of Government, has written an uplifting book that details the methods public officials, social entrepreneurs, and individuals can use to improve communities and inventively solve public and social problems.

  • A first trip, a career opening

    History professor Michael Szonyi recounts a career that began when he accepted a job at 17 working in Asia.

  • The Art of the Sonnet

    Stephen Burt, an English professor and renowned poet and critic, and co-writer David Mikics have collected 100 sonnets — the longest-lived poetic form — and offer their insights on each 14-line masterpiece.

  • Denial: Why Business Leaders Fail to Look Facts in the Face — and What to Do About It

    Richard Tedlow, the M.B.A. Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration, says denial is everywhere — even in business. He examines why leaders let denial threaten companies, and provides case studies of organizations that have met challenges head-on.

  • The last notes

    In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.

  • Her own creation

    Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.

  • Hip-hop’s global reach

    A two-day conference explores the global reach of hip-hop and examines how teachers can use it in the classroom to convey important lessons about art, culture, language, and society.

  • The nature of reality

    Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.

  • Rebels to some, achievers to others

    For two lecturers, the achievements of American radicals have been too long ignored. They argue that a reappraisal is due.

  • What makes a life significant?

    A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.

  • Peering into gearworks of FDA

    Daniel Carpenter’s new book, “Reputation and Power: Organizational Image and Pharmaceutical Regulation at the FDA,” probes the workings of a crucial federal safety agency that often is either lionized or demonized.

  • Building on tradition

    A Wampanoag home, called a wetu, is built on the site of Harvard’s Indian College.

  • Classical literature of India ‘unlocked’

    The Murty family’s endowed series will bring the classical literature of India, much of which remains locked in its original language, to a global audience.

  • The invention of childhood innocence

    In a new book, Harvard professor Robin Bernstein says that the concept of childhood innocence only dates to the 19th century, and was only applied to whites.

  • One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy

    Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Robert G. Eccles and his co-writer explain how business’s use of integrated and transparent reporting of financial and nonfinancial results adds value to companies, their shareholders, and the overall sustainability of society.

  • No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale

    Felice Frankel, a research associate in systems biology at Harvard Medical School, and her co-author help to explain nanoscale technology with a book of thorough explanations and colorful, illustrative photographs.

  • Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry

    From the emergence of the beauty industry in the 19th century, Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, traces such beauty bastions as Coty, Estée Lauder, and Avon, and how they made beauty a full-time fascination and business.

  • For the children

    Acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Eric Carle discusses his craft at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.