Arts & Culture

Science Center Plaza is alive with the sound of music

Harvard Arts Fest brings artmaking and creativity to campus

Part of the Photography series

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When talking drum becomes part of the dialogue

Visiting professor’s Venice Architecture Biennial project examines how to build renewable bridges between African, African diaspora communities
He studies dogs’ faces. She studies their brains.

‘Dogist‘ Instagram photographer, Harvard scientist swap insights on human-canine bond
Hooking first-years on the arts and humanities

Professors rethink students’ introduction to humanities with nine new courses
Schlesinger exhibit turns spotlight on largely invisible past

Students, archivists collaborate to tell deeper story of Asian American women’s history
Making universal connection through the intensely personal

Woodberry Poetry Room workshop project on tradition of elegy inspired by loneliness, grief of pandemic

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Portraits of dissent on view at Davis Center

Norton Dodge is an economist, a Harvard alumnus, and a savior of smuggled Soviet art. Smuggler is not usually a moniker that one would choose, but for Norton Dodge it is a badge of honor. Concerned with the plight of artists living under Soviet rule, many of whom found their work prohibited by the regime, Dodge smuggled almost 20,000 works of art out of the Soviet Union during the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s.

December 4, 2004
Greenblatt teases out a knowable Shakespeare

Some years ago, before Stephen Greenblatt made the move from Berkeley to Harvard, a screenwriter named Marc Norman came to see him. Norman wanted to write a screenplay about William Shakespeare and had come to interview Greenblatt about the playwrights life.

September 30, 2004