Arts & Culture

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Music and comedy meet queer and Jewish radicalism in Morgan Bassichis exhibit at the Carpenter Center.

In “The Streets of Newtowne: A Story of Cambridge, MA.” professor tells the story of city from Indigenous origins to present in children’s book illustrated by alum.

Tiya Miles’ research on Cherokee slaveholding sparked her first novel. A recent tribal reckoning led her to revisit it.

Emmett G. Price III examines genre’s history, staying power — and “intentionality” of recognition in recent years from elite cultural institutions.

Sammi Cannold discusses her vision for the iconic musical as she introduces “Evita” to a new generation of artists and audiences at the American Repertory Theater.

YouTube star, student, and a ghost called Swan collide in junior’s award-winning play exploring queerness, self-discovery.

Exhibit goes beyond idyllic landscapes to cramped apartment, 19th-century wardrobe malfunction, cancer-defying self-portraits.

Poetry critic reflects on “thrilling” career, writers who inspire, declining support for humanities.

A Wadsworth Atheneum show, curated by Sarah Elizabeth Lewis and Skip Gates, explores Douglass’ embrace of the emerging art of photography.

Emerita professor recalls childhood as Holocaust refugee in memoir “Daughter of History.”

“Mortality got my attention. And it was — as we are told to believe but rarely do — a gift,” says the acclaimed poet, whose latest collection, “To 2040,” looks at the many crises shadowing what she calls “the human project.”

Arts First took over stages, museums, and other venues across Harvard’s campus during the four-day festival.

Photographer Zhang Xiao documented the Shehuo festival over a decade of modernization, creating a portrait of how traditional practices sustain themselves amid rapid change. The new bilingual photographic exhibition “Shehuo: Community Fire” is at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology.

“Marine Debris Fashion Show,” a student design competition featuring outfits made from items humans dumped in oceans, was a highlight of the Arts First Festival.

Eight student poets pick a corner of the city with historical, personal meaning and read an original work.

New play to debut at Arts First Festival examines relationship between technology, humanity, and theater.

Sculpture, technology merge in Ceramics Program as tool offers students another way to work with clay.

Rebecca Solnit offers new view of remaking the world, turning climate crisis stories into narrative of the future, changed but still beautiful.

Students talk lyrics, character conflict, listening to the muse with Pulitzer, Tony-winning playwright Michael R. Jackson at CompFest.

Inspired by the success of an all-Asian production of “Legally Blonde,” students wrote three new works exploring themes of identity and representation.

For Cora Frazier, it usually starts with deep sadness

Combining Earth science, Native knowledge in climate change battle, Margaret Redsteer will draw on her research on tribal lands to discuss barriers and solutions to adaptation, resilience.

Somali-British novelist Nadifa Mohamed is a guest spearker at the Writers Speak series at the Mahindra Humanities Center and the History Seminar.

During Harvard visit, Public Enemy rapper visits poetry class and donates one of his iconic clocks.

The new installation is the first-ever presentation of art on the museums’ outdoor Broadway terrace.

Pulitzer-winning playwright reflects on roots, “unsafe” art, working with Spielberg.

Award-winning actress, writer, and producer Issa Rae honored as Artist of Year, capping off annual celebration of cultural diversity on campus.

Scholar goes way back in time to better understand arguments we’re having today.

At Harvard, cultural historian Harvey Young and playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins shared their views on how the arts had changed and what the state of the arts are now.