Arts & Culture

The curtain comes down Sept. 7 on the immersive, disco-insistent “Donkey Show” after a decade-long run at A.R.T.

“Six,” the hit British musical bound for A.R.T., recasts the six wives of Henry VIII as girl-power pop stars.

Matt Saunders is the incoming director of undergraduate studies in the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies

Harvard students are keeping busy with summer research projects across multiple disciplines.

A small installation on view through November will feature one of the museums’ recent Rembrandt acquisitions, “Four Studies of Male Heads.”

Members from the Harvard Summer Pops Band share how they became part of the band.

In historian Philip Deloria’s new book, “Becoming Mary Sully: Toward an American Indian Abstract,” he re-examines the art of his “eccentric” great-aunt, particularly her 134 “personality prints,” three-panel pieces inspired, in many cases, by artists and celebrities including Babe Ruth, Gertrude Stein, and Amelia Earhart.

Stephanie Burt’s new book is a guide to understanding an art form that for many feels difficult to access. She talks about creating a “travel guide” for poetry.

The Boston Ballet company spends an afternoon and evening shooting a promotional video in the forest-like setting of Arnold Arboretum.

Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will stage a fresh take on “Pride and Prejudice,” Jane Austen’s tale of 19th-century love, on June 23 courtesy of the Actor’s Shakespeare Project and playwright Kate Hamill.

Harvard philosophy professor’s book asks humans to rethink their relationships with animals.

Get out your calendar and start planning — this summer brings music, comedy, plays, spoken word, movies, and more to the Boston area.

A new pairing on a second-floor wall overlooking the Harvard Art Museums’ courtyard has placed self-portraits of contemporary artist Kerry James Marshall alongside that of 17th-century Dutch painter Nicolas Régnier.

Radcliffe fellow Tuna Şare-Ağtürk’s current book project documents the treasures unearthed at Nicomedia, an ancient Roman city and seat of power for the Emperor Diocletian.

American Repertory Theater announced today it has selected internationally renowned architects Haworth Tompkins to design its future home on Harvard’s Allston campus.

“I see him as an ambassador to the world,” Harvard alumnus Walter C. Sedgwick says about the “Prince Shōtoku” sculpture he donated to Harvard Art Museums. A recent visit to the museum stirred memories of visiting the sculpture every summer at his grandparents’ home.

Author Julie Orringer’s latest novel, “The Flight Portfolio,” tells the story of Harvard graduate Varian Fry, a journalist and editor sometimes referred to as the “American Schindler,” who worked in France during World War II to help save Jewish members of Europe’s cultural elite from Nazi concentration camps. Orringer worked on the book during a Radcliffe fellowship.

Brothers Daniel and Patrick Lazour’s musical, “We Live in Cairo,” brings the immediacy of Egypt’s January 25 Revolution to the American Repertory Theater on May 14.

Digital Giza Project lets scholars virtually visit sites in Egypt and beyond and, even print them in 3-D.

In June, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum will host an Actors’ Shakespeare Project production of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” adapted by Kate Hamill, in the Leventritt Shrub and Vine Garden.

The rapper and record producer Kasseem Dean, also known as Swizz Beatz, and his wife, Alicia Keys, own the largest private collection of Gordon Parks’ photographs in the world. They’re sharing it at Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery, and that’s just the beginning.

Poet laureate Tracy K. Smith wins the 2019 Harvard Arts Medal at a ceremony Thursday in Agassiz Theater, kicking off Arts First weekend.

The new exhibit “Into Place,” represents many of the capstone projects of recent graduates or current Harvard Ph.D. students pursuing a secondary field in Critical Media Practice, a 10-year-old program that expands the way students in Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences engage with their scholarship.

A new fellowship program brings practicing artists to Harvard’s campus.

This weekend’s Arts First festival showcases performances, exhibitions, and art-making opportunities for and by Harvard students, faculty, and affiliates, including international dance, many music genres, stand-up and improv comedy, theater, public art, poetry, experimental performances, and much more.

Backed by the Peabody Museum’s Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography, documentary photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews visited the region around the Caspian Sea, capturing on film the culture, customs, and inhabitants of the area whose reserves of oil, gas, and other natural resources are inextricably tied to life in the region. Her work produced a book and an exhibit now on view at Harvard.

The American Repertory Theater’s upcoming season lineup will include three world premieres.

Harvard community members who’ve taken Gaga dance courses have found the technique helps them let go of external pressures and focus their energy inward, achieving self-care and healing.

Neurology Professor Julian Fisher explores Massachusetts to tell stories of middle-class Americans through photography.

A meeting of experts and scholars from Harvard and beyond organized by assistant professor Sarah Lewis will “consider the role of the arts in understanding the nexus of art, race, and justice.”