Arts & Culture
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Courtney B. Vance, Angela Bassett honored as Artists of the Year
Cultural Rhythms’ weeklong celebration highlights student performers, food, and fashion
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Is Beyoncé’s new album country?
Release ignites hot talk about genre’s less-discussed Black roots, what constitutes authenticity
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Storytelling through body language
Veteran of Blue Man Group teaches students art of building a character without saying a word
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How I learned to stop worrying and love AI
Former software engineer turned English professor talks about future of literary studies in age of ChatGPT
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Instruments of change
Harvard’s female musicians claim their place onstage
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‘It is your family’s journey, too’
Artist Yu-Wen Wu discusses ‘Walking to Taipei,’ a recent Museums acquisition, and how immigration, life experiences inspire her work
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Where art and advertising collide
A new exhibition at Harvard Business School explores the intersection of fine photography with product marketing in the 1930s.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Palestinians on the screen
Filmmaker and visual artist Kamal Aljafari incorporates the past and present in his deeply personal films about the Middle East.
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What they’re reading
A survey of top Harvard faculty shows what books they’re reading and enjoying on summer’s edge.
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An explosion of creativity
The American Repertory Theater concludes its inventive first year under Diane Paulus with the premiere of the musical “Johnny Baseball.”
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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What comes after
Joanna Klink, the Briggs-Copeland Poet in the English Department, is out with a new book chronicling a failed relationship.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The last notes
In place since 1967, Appleton Chapel’s Opus 46 organ will be dismantled to make way for a new instrument.
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Her own creation
Artist, writer, and scholar Catherine Lord ’71 receives annual Harvard Arts Medal.
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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.
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The nature of reality
Allan Sekula, artist and essayist, discusses the nature of reality and how it’s shown in his work.
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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.
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What makes a life significant?
A diverse Harvard panel marks the 1910 death of William James, celebrates his life, and revisits his famous question.
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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.
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Building on tradition
A Wampanoag home, called a wetu, is built on the site of Harvard’s Indian College.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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For the children
Acclaimed children’s writer and illustrator Eric Carle discusses his craft at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.