Arts & Culture

“Passports: Lives in Transition” uses expired passports, visas, and photographs to tell personal stories of global events.

Harvard scholar Robin Bernstein hopes the archival work behind the recent publication of the slave narrative of Jane Clark will inspire other such projects.

Fiction writer and Briggs-Copeland lecturer Laura van den Berg talks about her new novel, “The Third Hotel.”

“I wanted to make the viewers feel they were transported to the bottom of the ocean,” says Lily Simonson about her exhibit “Painting the Deep,” on view at Harvard Museum of Natural History.

A “life-changing” method of teaching religious studies learned at Harvard Divinity School’s Religious Literacy Project is now helping high school students view world faiths with new eyes.

The Gazette spoke with fiction writer and Radcliffe fellow Lauren Groff about subversive prose, mothers and children, and crafting a vivid sense of place.

“Nam June Paik: Screen Play” is on view at Harvard Art Museums through Aug. 5.

A Q&A with Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the “Gilead” trilogy and Iowa Writers’ Workshop emeritus.

Researchers, including Harvard’s Emily Sneff and Danielle Allen, have learned much more about a Colonial-era copy of the Declaration of Independence.

For her new TV show, the Harvard professor sits down with the likes of Bono, Bill Clinton, and Shaquille O’Neal for in-depth discussions of one poem in each 24-minute episode.

Harvard Art Museums introduces public to artist and activist David Wojnarowicz with film screenings on June 27.

A discussion with “Ministry of Ideas” host Zachary Davis, M.T.S. ’19, about the unique power of podcasts and the need for greater religious literacy in America.

When Soyoung Lee takes the reins as the Harvard Art Museums’ chief curator in September, she will be joining the institution at a vibrant time, with some goals already clear.

Harvard students have created a replica of the ‘Dream Stela’ that rests between the paws of the Great Sphinx in Giza.

Patricia J. Williams changed the focus of her fellowship after the death of her mother last fall as she realized, “Now I am the memory that’s left.”

“Analog Culture” features approximately 90 prints from the celebrated Manhattan photo lab of Gary Schneider and John Erdman.

Michael Pollan, author, lecturer, and science writer, experimented with psychedelics as part of his new book on the latest research in the field.

Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord discusses the process behind her handmade books nested in cradles of wood at Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum.

“Harvard, 1968,” a new exhibition at Pusey Library, explores student and faculty experiences from a time of turbulence.

Former model and “Law & Order: SVU” actress Diane Neal is using what she learned at Harvard to fuel a run for office.

Occasionem discere a quovis — “every moment a learning opportunity” — is what Theodore Delwiche ’18 discovered through the Radcliffe Institute Research Partnership Program.

Singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette’s alternative rock album “Jagged Little Pill” is the basis for a new musical adaptation at the American Repertory Theater directed by A.R.T. Artistic Director Diane Paulus.

Dancer, actor, photographer Benjamin Grimm ’18 widened his focus to the comparative study of religion with a secondary degree in German and Scandinavian studies.

Grammy-winning pianist Emanuel Ax visited Harvard to discuss the influence of Beethoven on Brahms.

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead ’91 was honored with the 2018 Harvard Arts Medal in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.

Obstacles turned into stepping stones before Casey Khang Moore ’18 found new roles to explore at Harvard.

Arts First, the annual Harvard spring festival that begins Thursday, will make its debut on the other side of the river with concerts, exhibitions, and a historic work of theater.

The exhibit featured the Emancipation Proclamation, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and a handwritten note from Frederick Douglass.

Author and New Yorker music critic Alex Ross ’90 spoke at Harvard on his work in progress, “Wagnerism: Art in the Shadow of Music.”

Harvard junior Lance Oppenheim will premiere his latest documentary, “The Happiest Guy in the World,” at the Tribeca Film Festival.