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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Senior researcher at Project Zero and Boston College Professor of Psychology Ellen Winner’s latest book, “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration,” is based on years of research both at Harvard and BC, and looks at art through psychological and philosophical lenses.
The student-run Identities Fashion Show embraces all types of bodies and backgrounds. But for its board members, it’s a lot of work and a yearlong commitment.
Before an Askwith Hall audience, stars from “Kim’s Convenience” and “Fresh Off the Boat” explored how the landscape is shifting for Asian stories, defying stereotype and allowing authentic identities.
The elegance and rhythm of nature powerfully captured through photographer Chris Morgan’s lens is revealed at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.
The peopling of Polynesia’s far-flung islands may be the most epic migration story of all time. Harvard Review Editor Christina Thompson’s book “Sea People” examines the latest evidence of who the Polynesians were and how they did it.
Best-selling author Lauren Groff spoke at Radcliffe about her process and her current work, telling her listeners the only way she succeeds with her writing is by failing multiple times before she finally publishes.
For last semester’s seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern got about a dozen first-year students in a room and had them examine some of the rarest and oldest volumes at Houghton Library, Harvard’s rich and vast repository of art, culture, history and much, much more.
Min Jin Lee, the best-selling author of “Pachinko,” is working on the third work in her Korean diaspora trilogy during her Radcliffe fellowship. Lee’s book explores how Koreans value education.
Two years ago, the Harvard Art Museums purchased “U.S.A. Idioms,” a massive collage and drawing by the contemporary artist Kara Walker, who first rocked the art world in 1994 with silhouettes that evoked the horrors of slavery and its lasting impact. The work is now on display along with a few of Walker’s other pieces.
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