Arts & Culture
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Brief bursts of wisdom
Aphorism lover and historian James Geary reflects on how ancient literary art form fits into age of social media
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Live fast, die young, inspire Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt finds a tragic strain in the life and work of Christopher Marlowe
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Steve McQueen could lecture you, but he’s got other plans
‘I think the audience needs more, and I feel I need to give more,’ says award-winning filmmaker — presenter of this year’s Norton talks
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Marking 100 years of Norton Lectures
Panelists reflect on ‘incredible value’ of annual series as ‘megaphone’ for artists and scholars
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How fashion police have been walking beat for centuries
Houghton Library exhibit highlights the policing of women’s fashion since the 17th century.
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Seeing what you see
New faculty Cécile Fromont is a visual problem solver
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A Short History of Cape Cod
Historian Robert Allison colors in Cape Cod’s record with photographs, historical figures, and far-from-dry tales in “A Short History.”
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Pecos Pueblo Revisited: The Biological and Social Context
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.
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Saturday Is for Funerals
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.
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‘Africans in Black & White’
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.
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War’s artistic alchemy
Museum presentation discusses three German artists shaped in the cauldron of world war, and a younger fourth molded by the gender wars.
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Hot, hot, hot
The American Repertory Theater presents a rollicking fall lineup, with surprises at every turn.
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A glimpse of lost language
Peabody Museum researcher finds 400-year-old document that contains numerical translations of a previously unknown Peruvian language.
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A life of transition
A new exhibition at Harvard’s Houghton Library explores the life of philosopher William James.
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One writer’s gospel
A student in novelist Paul Harding’s last Harvard class recounts the lessons learned.
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The little book that could
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.
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Oberon is so on
Oberon, the American Repertory Theater’s sister theater space, is turning up the volume with its summer schedule.
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‘Mockingbird’ memories
At 50, a durable “To Kill a Mockingbird” still has power to enthrall.
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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.