Arts & Culture

Peabody Museum Associate Curator Michèle Morgan and authors review significant findings at the historical New Mexico reserve, answering many questions about the population and behavior of the Pecos pueblo.

Max Essex, the Mary Woodard Lasker Professor of Health Sciences, and Unity Dow track the Botswana HIV/AIDS crisis through heartrending narratives of those affected by the disease — an estimated one out of four adults.

The Du Bois Institute opens a new exhibit at the Rudenstine Gallery in conjunction with the M. Victor Leventritt Symposium and a 10-book series.

Museum presentation discusses three German artists shaped in the cauldron of world war, and a younger fourth molded by the gender wars.

The American Repertory Theater presents a rollicking fall lineup, with surprises at every turn.

Peabody Museum researcher finds 400-year-old document that contains numerical translations of a previously unknown Peruvian language.

A new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library explores the life of philosopher William James.

A student in novelist Paul Harding’s last Harvard class recounts the lessons learned.

Novelist Paul Harding rose from obscurity and rejection to win a Pulitzer Prize for his debut book “Tinkers,” which is derived from his family history.

Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s sister theater space, is turning up the volume with its summer schedule.

At 50, a durable “To Kill a Mockingbird” still has power to enthrall.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.