Arts & Culture

Celebrated writer Michael Pollan talks to the Gazette about joining the Creative Writing Program as the Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer.

Harvard Film Archive has programmed films by Oscar winner Kathryn Bigelow and others for its “Night of the Vampire.”

The Harvard Jazz Bands make and learn music, absorb culture on summer tour of Cuba.

While many of their peers were relaxing, a handful of Harvard students spent their summer immersing themselves in Viking history on a remote Danish island.

Creative writing lecturer Paul Yoon talks to the Gazette about his new book, “The Mountain,” and about his process, teaching, and the thinking behind his new story collection.

A portrait by the French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard helps highlight the loans that Harvard makes with other art institutions.

Harvard neurologist Howard Weiner is winning praise as a film director for his feature “The Last Poker Game.”

Harvard Professor Emeritus Lawrence Buell reflects on the lasting importance of Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden” on the 200th anniversary of the author’s birth.

Students in a new class on feminism learned about unsung leaders in the struggle for women’s rights.

As the bicentennial nears for the birth of Henry David Thoreau, it’s clear that Harvard College influenced the churlish naturalist far more than he would have admitted, author says.

From 1993 to 1999, historian Frank Kidner traveled to Syria to document and study the the country’s classical ruins, taking over 9,000 photographs of the architecture, topography, and people.

Harvard curator Edouard Kopp launched a workshop to illuminate the tricky terrain of the fine art market.

More than 100 people attended a free performance by 10 hip-hop and soul artists, featuring a full rendition of Warren Center Fellow Tef Poe’s latest album, “Black Julian.”

Dawoud Bey’s photographs of the keystone, changing neighborhood of Harlem are part of a new Cooper Gallery exhibit.

As Harvard’s Theater, Dance & Media specialty turns 2 this spring, it graduates its first concentrators.

“Arrabal,” a new American Repertory Theater show with a book by Harvard graduate John Weidman explores the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship through tango and music.

A new exhibit at Harvard Art Museums re-creates the Philosophy Chamber, located in Harvard Hall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology curator Ilisa Barbash talks about her book “Where the Roads All End: Photography and Anthropology in the Kalahari.”

Graduate student La’Toya Princess Jackson ’19 presents her original ballet, “Vanity Lane,” during DanceFest at Arts First.

A new exhibit marking JFK’s centennial includes an audio file believed to be the earliest voice recording of the future president.

As Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology turns 150, a new exhibit highlights its pioneering efforts and the legacy of its cultural history.

Diane Paulus honors Harvard’s legacy of artists with an evening of entertainment.

A photo gallery examines the Harvard Theatre Collection , which was founded in 1901, making it one of the oldest collections of its kind in the world.

Since 1992, Arts First has had a profound effect on more than just the students who go on to become professional artists.

Partnership between the University and the Allston-Brighton community has shaped a world of creativity and inspiration at the Harvard Ed Portal.

Maximum fuss is a matter of course for Harvard history professor and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore.

Six writers at risk discussed their work during an event at Harvard.

Performed entirely in silence, the modern dance piece “Catalogue (First Edition)” perfectly complemented the library and museum stages where noise is kept to a minimum.

A discovery of the Declaration in the south of England set a pair of researchers on a two-year journey into American history.

In Carpenter Center discussion, musicians Amanda Palmer and Damon Krukowski talk about what’s been lost in the transition from analog to digital recording.