Arts & Culture

The Bok Center Players specialize in thought-provoking theater examining race, gender, and identity.

Colson Whitehead ’91, author of the acclaimed novel “The Underground Railroad,” talks about Harvard, writing, and slavery.

Two graduates and a student of the Divinity School have found an audience with their podcast “Harry Potter and the Sacred Text,” about reading the famous series through a spiritual lens.

Filmmaker Oliver Stone tells a Kennedy School audience how he came to make a film about the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

The 100th anniversary of the Pulitzer Prizes brought leading lights from journalism and the arts to Harvard to reflect on accountability and the abuse of power.

Actor Alec Mapa’s most recent project, “Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy” will be shown on Sept. 14 at 114 Mt. Auburn St. as part of Harvard’s LGBTQ Film Series.

Author Terry Tempest Williams is the guest speaker at the Environment Forum at the Mahindra Center, a new initiative convened by Dean of Arts and Humanities Robin Kelsey and history Professor Ian J. Miller.

Anna Deavere Smith is back at the American Repertory Theater with a one-woman show aimed at failures in the U.S. education system.

Some of the groundwork for a planned 2019 exhibit on Harvard and the Bauhaus has already found a place online.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The rich legacy of Dumbarton Oaks exists as much in its spectacular gardens as in the pages of the rare books kept inside the historic home. The…

Photojournalist Randy H. Goodman was America’s eyes during the Iran hostage Crisis in 1980. Now, after a return trip in 2015, her exhibit “Iran: Women Only” is on display at CGIS Knafel.

Venice marks the 500th anniversary of its Jewish ghetto with a staging of Shakespeare’s “Merchant of Venice” and a mock trial involving Ruth Bader Ginsberg, appealing its famous verdict.

Of the many items in a new Radcliffe exhibit devoted to a family of social reformers, one in particular points to the attitudes and assumptions they repeatedly overcame. It’s a…

The Harvard Lampoon’s creative irreverence on full display in exhibit marking its 140th anniversary

Peruvian archaeologist Luis Castillo spoke at Harvard about how the discovery of several burial sites of female priestesses along the northern coast of Peru are changing notions about the roles of women in ancient civilizations.

A Harvard-backed expedition working in Israel has carried out the first-ever excavation of a Philistine cemetery.

A Q&A with Jill Lepore, Harvard professor of history and author of “Joe Gould’s Teeth.”

The Harvard Art Museums exhibit “Flowers of Evil: Symbolist Drawings, 1870–1910,” on view through Aug. 14, borrows its name from the 1857 collection of symbolist poems about decadence and eroticism by the French poet Charles Baudelaire. It also captures the essence of an artistic movement that sought to render the invisible visible through the use of color, form, and composition.

“Babar Comes to Houghton” in an exhibition to celebrate a donation from author Laurent de Brunhoff and his wife, Radcliffe alumna Phyllis Rose.

Professor Michael Puett has brought his popular undergraduate class on Chinese philosophy to a wider audience with “The Path.”

The Harvard metaLAB, a design studio and creative research lab affiliated with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, reaches across disciplines to create new multimedia projects.

Sarah Elizabeth Lewis, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture and African and African-American studies, guest edited the magazine Aperture, producing an issue called “Vision & Justice,” the first on African-Americans, race, and photography for the magazine.

Magdalene “Maggie” Zier turned her senior thesis about anti-lynching plays into a live performance at Harvard Law School.

“Drawings from the Age of Bruegel, Rubens, and Rembrandt” serves as an intimate study of art in progress.

A dedicated group of students work hard to make WHRB, Harvard’s 24-hour radio station, run 365 days a year.

Allston artist Konstantin Simun’s sculptures are inspired by his environment. His work is on display at the Harvard Ed Portal’s Crossings Gallery.

With more than 25 languages offered each semester, the African Language Program at Harvard is the world’s foremost.

Playwright and activist Eve Ensler returns to the A.R.T. with a one-woman show, exploring how her work with women brutalized by sexual violence in the Congo helped her fight uterine cancer.

“Seeds of Culture: The Portraits and Stories of Native American Women” is on view through May 28 at the Johnson-Kulukundis Family Gallery. The exhibit features 25 photos of Native American women, with interviews, written narratives, music, and song.

The annual Arts First festival showcased many forms of imaginative expression and creativity across Harvard.