Arts & Culture

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.

English course offers kaleidoscopic, cross-disciplinary look at horror classic as film, potential play, cultural artifact with long shadow.

Rappers, activists, scholars debate controversy surrounding subgenre of hip-hop.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” author Margaret Atwood, M.A. ’62, whose speculative fiction about women and power has made her both a beloved feminist icon and a repeated object of censorship, returned to Harvard to speak at Sanders Theatre.

New Harvard Art Museums show explores interactions between European, Indigenous, and African civilizations in works from Spanish Empire.

Games have inspired dozens of movies and TV shows recently. A new English class studies growing critical scholarship on the subject.

Novelist Joshua Cohen and professor James Wood discuss the creation of Cohen’s book, “The Netanyahus: An Account of a Minor and Ultimately Even Negligible Episode in the History of a Very Famous Family.”