Arts & Culture
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‘She took those kids and left before he got home from work.’
Jayne Anne Phillips recalls childhood visits to beauty shop in rural West Virginia hometown in new memoir
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When Egyptians made blue
Art Museums workshop explores 1st synthesized pigment, examines its legacy
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Time has not been kind to VHS
As tech turns 50, preservationists race to save material stored on vanishing format. Methods include … baking?
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Writing about a pet frog is trivial? Anne Fadiman disagrees.
‘We need beauty, wit, and attention to small things even more when we have to face large, painful things,’ essayist says about new book
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A treasure trove for K-pop fans
‘Korean Stars’ course inspires Yenching’s 17-box collection of merch spanning ’90s to today
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An exhibit marked with food stains and handwritten notes
Radcliffe explores social histories of recipes through its vast collection of community cookbooks
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How to translate a Nobel-winning author (and 700-page sentence)
Damion Searls — English ‘gateway’ for Jon Fosse and other writers — discusses Harvard roots, elevating new voices, and his multilingual ‘Matrix’ moment
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‘Still caught in a system that makes us smaller than we could be’
Tracy K. Smith explores America’s past, present challenges, hopes in new book
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How opium, imperialism boosted Chinese art trade
Harvard Art Museums exhibition chronicles history, explores lessons for U.S. drug crisis
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Champion, creator of American theater
Robert Brustein, founder of rep companies at Harvard and Yale, recalled as teacher, critic, mentor, innovator
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‘We had to create something new — and we did’
Ahead of Harvard visit, two legends of hip-hop recall New York beginnings
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Like a Kardashian of the Roosevelt era
Student-written, -directed musical explores, celebrates life of Teddy’s daughter Alice Lee, cousin Eleanor.
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At 60, Carpenter Center takes a rare look back
Four shows inspired by building’s iconic architecture are re-staged to mark anniversary.
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You’re writing it wrong
The Gazette spoke with Todd Rogers about his new book, “Writing for Busy Readers: Communicate More Effectively in the Real World.”
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Call it ‘old money aesthetic’ or ‘coastal grandma’ — it all comes back to preppy
Fashion podcaster traces quintessential American look from campuses to catwalks.
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In stutter, artist finds voice
Poet and musician embraces onetime “curse” in compositions inspired by nature and Blackness.
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When ‘The Boss’ is your therapist
New book by psychologist, sociologist surveys depth, complexity of Bruce Springsteen’s connection to his female fans.
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‘Living one’s life during and after the violation of one’s humanity’
Ruth Simmons’ memoir traces everyday natural beauty, mortal peril of growing up Black in 1940s rural Texas
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In fall, a reader’s mind turns to campus books
A reading list for the new school year.
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How music powers protest
The struggle for racial justice has always had a soundtrack. Charrise Barron explores its evolution from gospel to hip-hop.
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Weaving refugee’s life into histories of U.S., Vietnam
Pulitzer-winning novelist, academic Viet Thanh Nguyen to discuss colonization, otherness in Norton Lectures.
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Big impact of Little Amal
A.R.T., ArtsThursdays event centers on the 12-foot puppet of a Syrian refugee child, kicking off monthlong arts programming on migration and immigration.
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Lost in fictional maps
Fantasy worlds from Middle Earth to Westeros come to life in Harvard Library exhibit.
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How to judge a painting
Do: Ask questions and keep an open mind. Don’t: Say your child could’ve made that.
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Murder, misguided creativity, and other tales in salt prints
The early photo technique — and stories of people in front of, behind camera — get new exposure as Harvard digitizes vast collection.
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Visions of power in ‘Barbie,’ Beyoncé, Taylor Swift
Women entertainers are dominating the summer. Lecturer in women, gender, and sexuality discusses the forces at play.
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Hot season for travel, rejuvenation, transformation — even if you don’t go anywhere
Fourteen suggestions for books to take you places you’ve never been, full of new people, unaccustomed sights, smells, tastes.
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If it wasn’t created by a human artist, is it still art?
Writer, animator, architect, musician, and mixed-media artist detail potential value, limit of works produced by AI
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So what exactly makes Taylor Swift so great?
Experts weigh in on pop superstar’s cultural and financial impact as her tours and albums continue to break records.
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How do humanities prepare students for the real world? Here are four examples.
From planning a film festival to researching arts-based sex education, students find “real-world” applications for their chosen passions.
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Everyone calls it a classic. But who’s everyone, and why am I so bored?
Scholarly wisdom for readers beating their heads against a great work of literature: Stop doing that
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‘Funny … frivolous … serious’
Music and comedy meet queer and Jewish radicalism in Morgan Bassichis exhibit at the Carpenter Center.
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A people’s history of Cambridge
In “The Streets of Newtowne: A Story of Cambridge, MA.” professor tells the story of city from Indigenous origins to present in children’s book illustrated by alum.
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Reinspired by true events
Tiya Miles’ research on Cherokee slaveholding sparked her first novel. A recent tribal reckoning led her to revisit it.
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Reflections as hip-hop turns 50
Emmett G. Price III examines genre’s history, staying power — and “intentionality” of recognition in recent years from elite cultural institutions.
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Beyond the ballgown
Sammi Cannold discusses her vision for the iconic musical as she introduces “Evita” to a new generation of artists and audiences at the American Repertory Theater.