Arts & Culture
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Consider the ancient history and glory of Olympics (and the modern sneaker deal)
In Greece, students find intersection of academics and athletics
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Tracing roots of hidden language of an outsider minority
Graduate student aims to update large gaps in research on argot of Irish Travelers
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17 books to soak up this summer
Harvard Library staff recommendations cover romance, fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, memoir, music, politics, history
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What to make? Let the wheels decide.
‘Randomizer’ gets creative gears spinning in ceramic studio
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Writing to the beat of your inner Miles Davis
Jesse McCarthy sees Black authors during Cold War philosophically opting for none of the above, and improvising their own way
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A modern approach to teaching classics
Martin Puchner is using chatbots to bring to life Socrates, Shakespeare, and Thoreau
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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.
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Bringing ancient pottery to life
Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Art for everyone
Harvard’s Office for the Arts panel tackles the need for antiracism programming, allyship.
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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.
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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.
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A portrait of the man behind the portraits
John Jay Cabuay explains how he strives to capture the spirit of the people he illustrates.
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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.
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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 .
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Looking to ignite questions rather than supply answers
Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.
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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.
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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.”
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A way in
Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.
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Wonderland reimagined
Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”
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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.
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Let there be light
The art installation “Lucidity” was an immersive light and video display in Harvard Yard.
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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.
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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.
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And the Pudding Pot goes to …
Viola Davis celebrated winning Hasty Pudding’s Woman of the Year award during the virtual ceremony.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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How to get away with a Pudding Pot
Hasty Pudding Theatricals announces Viola Davis as 2021 Woman of the Year.