Arts & Culture

The Italian actor and director who was one of the first women to accuse Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault criticized the “simplification” of her story by New Yorker journalist Ronan Farrow. During a talk at Harvard Hall, Asia Argento also called for women to unite to end sexual harassment and assault.

Marshall Scholar Elizabeth Keto ’18 is looking forward to a career as a curator, with a focus on inclusivity.

Radcliffe competition awards two Design School students funds to create public art in a garden on Brattle Street.

Photographer Rosamond Purcell will be at the MCZ on Thursday to talk about the museum’s role in her evolution as an artist.

Harvard’s Joseph Connors took listeners on a virtual tour of two of Rome’s most iconic spaces, the Piazza Navona and the Piazza San Pietro, also known as St. Peter’s Square.

Prominent Mexican archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma on April 10 will deliver the first lecture on campus in the series that bears his name and honors his contributions to archaeology.

Harvard grad Leslie Jamison on her new book, “The Recovering.”

The 1890 Vincent van Gogh work “Snow-Covered Field with a Harrow (after Millet)” is currently on loan to Harvard Art Museums.

James Reis’ exhibit of photos of the Arnold Arboretum is on display there through May 6.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator of the hit musical “Hamilton,” spoke at Harvard Kennedy School about Latino identity and activism.

Two Harvard grads brought to campus the opera company they helped to found for a residency that included more than a dozen events.

Richard Martinez III has gone from Army barracks to Hurlbut Hall, bringing with him maturity and desire to be a role model for Mexican-Americans.

Experiences in Russia, Montana, and at Harvard converge in freshman Dasha Bough’s sand art.

Harvard class encourages students to create artworks to better understand how they’re made.

A workshop at Radcliffe showcased “Tom-Tom,” an opera by African-American composer Shirley Graham that hasn’t been performed since its 1932 premiere.

Jonathan Guyer is writing a book about the surge of boundary-pushing graphic novels and cartoons in the Middle East and North Africa.

In his latest book, entomologist E.O. Wilson urges the next generation of great minds to evolve and explore the symmetry between the natural sciences and the humanities.

The Harvard Foundation honored Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Solange Knowles as 2018 Artist of the Year in a ceremony at Sanders Theatre.

Ahead of the Academy Awards, David Edelstein ’81 talks up his favorite films of the past year.

Poet Claudia Rankine’s new play places a conversation about race center stage and encourages audiences to continue to engage with the discussion after the curtain falls.

A panel at the Graduate School of Design discussed historical monuments, and new ways to create them.

“Inventur — Art in Germany, 1943‒55,” at the Harvard Art Museums through June 3, features work that has drawn scant attention in the United States.

In his 2011 book, “The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined,” Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker argued that despite common assumptions, violence has dropped dramatically from biblical times…

Professor Emily Wilson, the first woman to translate the ancient epic “The Odyssey” into English, explains her milestone achievement.

Radcliffe fellow Chad Williams is working on a book about what he considers one of W.E.B. Du Bois’ greatest missteps: “The Black Man and the Wounded World,” an unfinished history of the African-American experience during World War I.

Linguistics lab applies scientific methods to studying and understanding how people communicate.

Onetime Radcliffe fellow Viet Thanh Nguyen shared the story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer” during a return visit.

Some of the biggest names in jazz will convene for this weekend’s festival in honor of the pianist and composer.

The exhibition “From Stone to Silicone” — the only exhibit of its kind in North America — features striking silicone replicas of millennia-old reliefs that preserve the history of present-day Iraq.

Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library has acquired the papers of famed activist Angela Davis.