Arts & Culture

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.

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

Bill Gates speaks about the how the humanities impact global issues.

Poet Jericho Brown writes often about death, looking it in the eye, but don’t make the mistake of thinking him an unhappy man.

“Shelley,” a movie by Andrew Wesman ’10, is one of 13 selected from among 1,600 film school offerings that will screen at the famed Cannes Film Festival.

A Radcliffe conference tackles the tangle of how men and women handle matters of personal and public space.

A new exhibit at Gund Hall shows how rocks are used to shape landscape design and to create art.

In his latest book, professor emeritus Jerome Kagan examines the temperaments of babies and how they can be predictors of adult behaviors.

The American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston combine efforts to celebrate the joys of performance.

John Palfrey and Jonathan Zittrain of Harvard Law School team up in this all-star collaboration on cyberspace. Whether the subjects are online censorship or surveillance, the wild frontier of the Web gets tamed in this tome.

Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals into lyrical fodder.

Government and happiness? Not so strange bedfellows, says Derek Bok, former president of Harvard and professor at Harvard Law School, who investigates how happiness research could affect policy.

The relocation of the Silk Road Project to Harvard space in Allston is just the latest indicator that the University is expanding its commitment to the arts as a pivotal source of creativity.

Radcliffe Fellow Robin Fleming peers into the history of early medieval Britain through the lens of material culture.

A Harvard artist and wordsmith takes a turn at reimaging the poems of Emily Dickinson.

Harvard students, in an eclectic art show, travel to real and imagined “Invisible Cities,” which simmer beneath the surface of the real.

In a lecture at the Harvard Divinity School, scholar Lawrence Buell examined the continuing relevance of Thoreau’s “Walden” and the importance of voluntary simplicity.

New book chronicles how the mind works and how we can influence that to help ourselves succeed.

When clocks recognized a tenth of a second, the world would never be the same, says Jimena Canales, an associate professor in the history of science who melds technology, philosophy, and science in this heady history.

Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology, extracts wealth from his 30 years of work in comparative theology and proffers this field guide.

The customer is always right, but we’re always getting taken. Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, prods businesses to readjust their resilience and mend the bridge connecting consumers with companies.

Art historian Claire Roberts, a Radcliffe Institute fellow, discusses photography in China, and how it was used for varied goals over time.

Performance artist Andrea Fraser discussed some of the inspiration behind her work and her current installation on view at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, during a discussion at Harvard’s Barker Center.

Diane Borger has been named A.R.T. producer and Tiffani Gavin has been named the director of finance and administration at the A.R.T.

The Weissman Preservation Center celebrates 10 years of treating and safeguarding rare books, manuscripts, scores, and photos for the Harvard Library system.

Andover-Harvard Theological Library nears completion of major project to digitize Holocaust-related archives.

Husband-and-wife filmmakers chronicle a dying way of life and humanity with their new film “Sweetgrass.”

New book by a Harvard nutritionist and renowned monk encourages the Buddhist sense of mindfulness in how people eat.

Exhibit and upcoming panel discussion probe how women have dealt with spaces over time. The exhibit is in four parts, each representing a realm within space: private, public, political, and artistic.

Laura L. Adams, a lecturer on sociology and co-director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus, delivers an insightful look into nation building in Central Asia during the post-Soviet era.