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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.

    Two women and a girl in mourning.
  • Bringing ancient pottery to life

    Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.

    Woman teaching ceramics.
  • Fresh insight in familiar frames

    Horace D. Ballard, the Harvard Art Museums’ new curator of American art, wants us to engage in big questions of our time through works of another.

    Horace Ballard.
  • Spotted at Radcliffe: A brain exploding into rainbows

    While spending a year at Radcliffe working on her latest book, Lauren Groff switched gears after attending a talk by a fellowship classmate — and started a project focused on a medieval nun.

    Lauren Groff,
  • A son nearing adulthood, his mom nearing death

    Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.

    Atticus Lish
  • Art for everyone

    Harvard’s Office for the Arts panel tackles the need for antiracism programming, allyship.

    Zoom panel.
  • Making the audience laugh — and cry

    Annie Julia Wyman studied creative writing at Stanford, got her master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Harvard, and seemed destined for a career in academia. Then Hollywood came calling.

    Annie Julia Wyman.
  • Let the music play

    The Harvard Ed Portal teamed up with Brighton Main Streets to produce 10 free outdoor performances at the Brighton Farmers Market.

    Marcos Santos.
  • A portrait of the man behind the portraits

    John Jay Cabuay explains how he strives to capture the spirit of the people he illustrates.

    John Jay Cabuay.
  • Motion picture

    Harvard Ph.D. student Kéla Jackson’s virtual talk explored the ways muralist and printmaker Louis Delsarte embraced notions of music, color, and interiority in his work.

    Gif showing layers of Louis Delsarte's "Unity."
  • Remembrance of cicada seasons past

    Cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy ignited a childhood memory in Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture .

    Joseph Koerner.
  • How plants have influenced human societies

    Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks’ Plants Humanities Lab hope to shed light on the historical relationships between humans and their environments — and improve our current and future relationships with nature.

    Detail of a painting by Albert Eckhout.
  • Tuning up for a return to performing in person

    After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.

    Vijay Iyer.
  • Take a bow

    Since Theater, Dance & Media launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration, almost 40 College students have graduated with a concentration in TDM and more than 90 have pursued secondary concentrations in the field.

    Dancers onstage.
  • Imagining an alternative America from a Native perspective

    “Moving Through History” is an immersive installation happening Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Creating Equal initiative.

    A.R.T. illustration for walking tour.
  • Does climate doubt have a sound? At least one composer thinks so

    Harvard professors Janine Jackson and Naomi Oreskes collaborate on music and climate change denial project.

    Naomi Oreskes and Yvette Jackson.
  • Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers

    Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.

    Jesse McCarthy.
  • With digital archive, a time and a new way to understand colonial history

    Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.

    Sheet of music.
  • A lens for detail

    Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”

    Cicadas.
  • A way in

    Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.

    Interactive exhibit.
  • Wonderland reimagined

    Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”

    Lily Rose Valore as Alice.
  • A.R.T. maintains global collaborations, with technology and remote coordination

    American Repertory Theater has been focusing on international collaborations, taking lessons from its recent productions that were able to bring live theater back abroad.

    Jagged Little Pill cast members.
  • Let there be light

    The art installation “Lucidity” was an immersive light and video display in Harvard Yard.

  • Chronicling an American age of art, thought, and global engagement

    Jorie Graham and Louis Menand discuss Menand’s new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” his influences, and writing style.

    Louis Menand.
  • Field and streaming

    This semester, Harvard archaeology students are dropping in on nearly 90 virtual classrooms as special guest speakers, telling more than 2,500 public and private school students and teachers from elementary, middle, and high schools about subjects ranging from ancient tombs offerings in Mexico to trade practices in the Red Sea region.

    Two people at an archaeology site.
  • And the Pudding Pot goes to …

    Viola Davis celebrated winning Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year award during the virtual ceremony.

    Viola Davis holding the Pudding Pot.
  • A 400-year community chronicle of African America

    Keisha N. Blain, historian and fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University, discusses working on her newest book, a compilation of essays, short stories, and poems by 90 Black historians, authors, academics, journalists, and activists that traces the history of African America from 1619 to 2019.

    Keisha Blain
  • Unearthing ‘The Man Who Lived Underground’

    Author and activist Julia Wright, filmmaker Malcolm Wright, and author and Radcliffe Fellow Kiese Laymon discuss the uncut version of Richard Wright’s novel “The Man Who Lived Underground” during a talk supported in part by Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

    Zoom.
  • Arts First and all over

    The 11-day Arts First festival kicks off April 19, with programming featuring some of Harvard’s best visual arts, music, dance, and performance.

    Cellist Camden Archambeau ’23 performs Sonata for Solo Cello by Zoltán Kodály in Adolphus Busch Hall.
  • How to get away with a Pudding Pot

    Hasty Pudding Theatricals announces Viola Davis as 2021 Woman of the Year.

    Viola Davis