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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A world tour with David Damrosch
David Damrosch, chair of the Comparative Literature Department, revised pandemic-era essays into “Around the World in 80 Books.”
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But my mother’s in China…
Weike Wang tails Harvard-educated ICU doc through surprise visit after her dad’s death in witty look at family, culture, and COVID
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Rocky path to publication for ‘most dangerous book’
Denounced as obscene, Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ exploded old ways of thinking about fiction — and the world itself.
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Finding modern issues in study of ancient world
Professor’s research while developing Latin course turns up surprising insights into political, gender, racial, religious identity.
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Pinker tries Wordle
Language expert Steven Pinker explores how the brain tries to make sense of those pesky missing tiles in the popular word puzzle.
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Finding joy in the everyday
Artists digitally remix the everyday sights and sounds of Allston-Brighton in “Frequencies,” showing nightly at Harvard’s Ed Portal through February.
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Film full of sound and fury in dark pandemic season
Filmmaker Joel Coen brings a trimmed-down, sparse theatrical version of the Shakespeare play to the screen, says Jeffrey Wilson.
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The stars align for the Pudding Pot
Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman star in the return of the Hasty Pudding’s Man and Woman of the Year awards.
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Overture of an opera life
James Joyce will be star of final act of Benjamin Wenzelberg’s undergrad career.
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Belle of Amherst 2.0 (feat. Emily D)
Production archive materials donated by the Apple+ TV series “Dickinson” arrived at Harvard’s Houghton Library.
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Civil War opera starring Walt Whitman? Really?
In excerpt from his new book, Matthew Aucoin details why he chose Whitman as main character in his debut opera “Crossing” at American Repertory Theater.
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Much more than a movie
Sebastián Lelio, director of “A Fantastic Woman,” talks about the film, which tells the story of a transgender woman in Santiago, Chile, and its role in the passage of a landmark Chilean gender-identity law.
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The Sondheim he remembers: genius, friend, board game geek
Harvard grad John Weidman collaborated with theater giant on “Pacific Overtures,” “Assassins,” and “Road Show.”
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Moving together again
Studios reopen for in-person classes in Soca Fusion, Latinx Movement, and more.
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Competing visions
Ahead of Harvard football’s annual showdown with Yale, two art historians got into the competitive spirit.
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Bringing monuments to life
On Friday, Krzysztof Wodiczko discussed the creative impulse behind his work during a pair of talks sponsored by the Graduate School of Design.
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‘The steam and chatter of typewriters’
A typewriter belonging to John Ashbery now has a home in the Woodberry Poetry Room at Harvard, the late poet’s alma mater.
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A musical duo of mythic power
Eight years in the making, the opera “Iphigenia” makes its worldwide debut in Boston.
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Genuine heroines
Answering Joseph Campbell’s ‘Hero with a Thousand Faces,’ Maria Tatar reveals multitudes in her new book.
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How to pick a literary winner
Maya Jasanoff, Coolidge Professor of History, spoke with the Gazette about her role as chair of the panel that crowned “The Promise” by Damon Galgut this year’s winner.
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Women who are ambitious, powerful, in love — and in peril
Whitney White plans musical programs, each on a different Shakespeare play, all asking: What is price of ambition for women?
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Checking in with the local ghosts
Folklore & Mythology course examines how tales of spirits and ghosts from the past affect the present and the future.
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In this writer’s life, the art of noticing comes first
Rachel Kushner discussed the connection, and differences, between writing fiction and essays at an online Writers Speak event.
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Raised voices
Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.
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Tapping into magic
Tap dancer Ayodele Casel explores communication, improvisation, culture, and history in “Chasing the Magic” at the American Repertory Theater.
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Creating art from Radcliffe archives
Artist Tomashi Jackson’s latest work, “Brown II,” on view at Radcliffe, is inspired by the work of Civil Rights pioneers Pauli Murray and Ruth Batson, who helped drive public school desegregation efforts
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Something darker than awe
Professor Ellen Winner looks at what may be happening in the minds of viewers who are taking in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapped Arc de Triomphe.
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A look behind the scenes
This fall, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts is supporting a series of six commissions from seven contemporary artists across various disciplines.
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Earth’s most excellent mixtape
Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.
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Giving Carrie Mae Weems her due
New volume fills gap in scholarship on work of celebrated Black photographer Carrie Mae Weems.