Arts & Culture

Collaborative problem-solving has been key to the success of Harvard’s Weissman Preservation Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.

Harvard historian Jill Lepore takes on the history of knowledge with her new podcast “The Last Archive.”

Harvard Divinity School student Steven Salido Fisher’s project, “Gathering Historias,” is documenting Hispanic community’s experiences with nature including the historic green space of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Since Harvard’s museums went online, staffs have tackled the enormous task of updating, adding, and editing data for millions of items housed in University collections.

Joana Choumali, a Côte d’Ivoire-based artist noted for her work embroidering directly on photographs, has been named the Peabody’s 2020 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography.

Virtual, 30-minute art breaks organized by the Harvard Art Museums are designed to help doctors briefly disengage from the pressures and stresses of their work in the age of coronavirus.

The new art exhibition “Windows of Harvard” can be seen from the streets and sidewalks, or viewed online.

A Harvard expert in ethics and public policy talks about what pop culture says about pandemics, and our reactions to them.

In the time of COVID-19, Harvard student radio station pays tribute to canceled concerts.

In collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Repertory Theater is working on how it and other theaters can re-emerge in the wake of the current health crisis, uniting the community through great art while keeping audiences, performers, and theater staffers safe. It’s called “The Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience for Theater.”

In collaboration with the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Repertory Theater is working on how it and other theaters can re-emerge in the wake of the current health crisis, uniting the community through great art while keeping audiences, performers, and theater staffers safe. It’s called “The Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience for Theater.”

Dan McKanan of Harvard Divinity School discusses the ways in which spirituality interacts with climate change and how religious organizations have ensured environmentalism includes social justice.

In a new book, Harvard Assistant Professor of English Beth Blum traces the historical relationship between self-help and literature.

Harvard Scholar at Risk and poet Abu Toha created the first English-language library in Gaza.

A new Harvard Art Museums exhibit features more than 120 works from the Feinberg Collection and captures the evolving nature of Japanese painting over more than 200 years.

Harvard Art Museums’ restoration and research on a portrait of King Philip has both shed light and raised questions about the copy versus an original.

Project to make complete visual digital records of three 3,000-year-old coffins turns up a painting of a deity.

Tap dancer Ayodele Casel swings into the spotlight — and brings her predecessors with her.

Recent alums Joshuah Campbell and Gabe Fox-Peck discuss their Best Song Oscar nomination for “Harriet.”

In this excerpt from Gish Jen’s satiric new novel, a star pitcher struggles against the police state in a riven, dystopian America.

A selection of theater, music, and art events in Boston this winter.

New A.R.T. play, “Gloria: A Life,” explores Steinem’s past and feminism today through talking circles.

When the Sundance Film Festival begins, Harvard’s artistic talent will be well represented by Shirley Chen ’22 and Lance Oppenheim ’19.

For the next month the Harvard Film Archive will showcase Alfred Hitchcock’s early works, a set of nine films on loan from the British Film Institute, which restored and rereleased the 35 millimeter prints in 2014.

Christine Leunens, A.L.M. ’04, will be watching the Oscars on Feb. 9 as “Jojo Rabbit,” based on her award-winning second novel, “Caging Skies,” has been nominated for six Oscars, including best picture.

Harvard junior Julia Riew decided to bring a special message to the A.R.T. stage with “Thumbelina,” this year’s family holiday show.

An exhibit of indigenous-language materials is now housed in Tozzer Library. The exhibit will run until June 2020.

With her new opera, the composer’s goal was to transform one of the largest music theaters in Germany into a space “where there is nobody else.”

Beatles scholar Kenneth Womack will talk about the Beatles and feminism on Dec. 12 at Harvard.

Memorial Church composer in residence Carson Cooman discusses his latest noel.