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Arts & Culture
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New home for superheroes: Houghton Library
Donor of vast comics collection details Hollywood arc during Harvard visit
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Why Sofia Coppola gave Marie Antoinette sneakers
Director visits Harvard Film Archive for 20th anniversary of biopic, also the subject of a new documentary
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Elizabeth Strout, mystery writer
Pulitzer-winning novelist brings a keen sense of the unknown to Divinity School
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Power sees much to admire in ‘Diplomat’ — except that deodorant thing
Former ambassador sits down with star, showrunner to separate fact, fiction in hit series about foreign service officers
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‘They cast no reflection, yet they are a mirror’
Monsters take many forms in our Halloween book recommendations — from vampires to demonic cats to ancient sea reptiles
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Hannah and the Janes
New A.R.T. rock opera looks backward to era before Roe v. Wade, finds resonance with today’s post-Roe world
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The Silk Road Ensemble
Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble perform during Learning From Performers, sponsored by Office for the Arts, September 2005.
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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.
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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.