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  • A more collaborative Carpenter Center

    Dan Byers wants to build community around contemporary art as new director of the Carpenter Center.

  • We speak, therefore we are

    Divinity School alum and indigenous Maskoke person Marcus Briggs-Cloud discusses his efforts to maintain his ancestral language and identity in the next installment of the Gazette’s podcast “Heard at Harvard.”

  • The world according to Conrad

    Professor Maya Jasanoff talks about her new book, “The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World.”

  • Preserving a culture, one speaker at a time

    Since 1996, the Yuchi Language Project has been fighting to preserve the language of the Yuchi people.

  • Turn on, tune in, geek out

    Houghton Library displays highlights from the 50,000 pieces inherited from a billionaire collector who was obsessed with the search for transcendence through sex, drugs, and rock ’n ’roll.

    Jensen Davis has tapped into Harvard’s Ludlow-Santo Domingo collection for her research on psychedelic drugs. Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer
  • How a curator sees $450M Leonardo

    Insight from Cassandra Albinson of Harvard Art Museums on the $450.3 million sale of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi.”

  • Michael Ondaatje goes deep into character

    Michael Ondaatje, author of “The English Patient” and other novels, read passages from his work and took questions on his creative process during a Harvard forum.

  • Parsing the poet, Bob Dylan

    A Harvard professor’s new book probes the influence of the great ancient poets, such as Homer and Virgil, on Bob Dylan and his music.

  • More Dutch treasures for Harvard

    Harvard Art Museums has announced a major gift of Dutch Golden Age drawings from the Maida and George Abrams collection.

  • The incomparable da Vinci

    Author and Harvard alumnus Walter Isaacson takes on the ultimate Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci.

  • Stephanie Burt opens up

    The Harvard poet discusses new book of poetry, life as a trans woman, and settling in as as co-poetry editor of The Nation.

  • Pain, joy, and wisdom

    Four Harvard professors engage students in a weekly dialogue that looks at wisdom as it relates to how we experience the world, and the strategies we need to have a moral life amid uncertainty. 

  • Ideas (and sneakers) were in the air

    Designer Virgil Abloh’s Harvard lecture mirrored his multiplatform career: bold, dynamic, and audacious.

  • Music and meaning, the Marsalis way

    Wynton Marsalis was back at Harvard on Monday night to celebrate the release of the video version of his first lecture performance at Harvard from 2011, “Music as Metaphor,” and to discuss the importance of the arts.

  • Feejee Mermaid is unattractive attraction

    Feejee Mermaid offers haunting image at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

    The Feejee Mermaid has haunted the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology for more than 100 years. Video still by Kai-Jae Wang/Harvard Staff
  • Depths of slavery, heard, seen, and felt

    The poetry of Phillis Wheatley adds power to a film by Harvard scholars that re-creates an 18th-century campus debate on slavery.

    Harvard sophomore Ashley LaLonde portrays poet Phillis Wheatley in the film "No More, America," directed by Peter Galison and Henry Louis Gates Jr.
  • Honoring Mexican discovery

    A Harvard delegation traveled to Mexico to take part in the inaugural talk of the Eduardo Matos Moctezuma Lecture Series.

    Eduardo Matos Moctezuma discusses discoveries at Templo Mayor in a lecture the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
  • The queen of Halloween

    Harvard Music Department administrator Lesley Bannatyne’s other life is as a Halloween expert. She has written five books on the topic, including a children’s work.

  • Festive start to Worldwide Week

    The Harvard Graduate Council kicked off Worldwide Week with the inaugural International Festival, featuring music and dance by multicultural student groups.

  • Eden as a storyteller’s paradise

    A conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar Stephen Greenblatt on his new book, “The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve.”

    Stephen Greenblatt and Dean Robin Kelsey chat about Greenblatt's new book "The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve" in the lobby of Harvard Global Support Services.
  • Life stories keep him turning (and sniffing) the page

    A profile of Luke Kelly ’19, a history concentrator whose work at Houghton Library has nurtured his award-winning passion for books.

  • ‘The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu’

    At the Center for Government and International Studies, a small exhibit captures the life and work of an artist influenced by Harvard, by a range of cultural forces, and by the postwar art movements swirling in Europe and New York City in the 1950s and ’60s.

    "Irresolution: The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu,” an intimate exhibit at the CGIS is marked by a large banner showing the artist at 24 years old.
  • The not lost generation

    Oula Alrifai, A.M. ’19, and her brother, Mouhanad Al-Rifay, are releasing “Tomorrow’s Children,” a documentary about Syrian child refugees trying to survive in Turkey.

  • More ‘Answers’ than expected

    La’Toya Princess Jackson, a master’s of liberal arts candidate in dramatic arts, takes a main role, and learns more than just her part.

  • Wynton Marsalis makes a return engagement

    Wynton Marsalis shares the stage with President Drew Faust to celebrate the release of his video, based on a lecture series he started at Harvard in 2011.

  • New adventures in editing

    An interview with George Andreou, who took the helm as new director of the Harvard University Press in September.

  • Kazuo Ishiguro’s (mostly) brilliant blandness

    Harvard professor and New Yorker book critic James Wood talks to the Gazette about Kazuo Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize in literature.

  • An American in Moscow

    Sebastian Reyes ’19 took a course in Soviet film and ran with it — all the way to Russia.

    eyes is along the Moskva River with the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the background. At 338 feet, it is the tallest Orthodox Christian church in the world.
  • Fathers, killers, God, and ‘Maus’

    “Maus” author Art Spiegelman discussed art, existence, and Jewish identity during a visit to Harvard.

    Art Spiegelman.
  • Echoes of Capote and Warhol

    “WARHOLCAPOTE” draws from 75 hours of conversations between Andy Warhol and Truman Capote recorded during the 1970s, when they discussed everything from the trials of fame to using their talks to create their own Broadway show.