Arts & Culture

Tara K. Menon discusses her research and writing and how the author and cartoonist Alison Bechdel influenced her work.

Tap dancer Ayodele Casel explores communication, improvisation, culture, and history in “Chasing the Magic” at the American Repertory Theater.

Artist Tomashi Jackson’s latest work, “Brown II,” on view at Radcliffe, is inspired by the work of Civil Rights pioneers Pauli Murray and Ruth Batson, who helped drive public school desegregation efforts

Professor Ellen Winner looks at what may be happening in the minds of viewers who are taking in Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s wrapped Arc de Triomphe.

This fall, the Harvard University Committee on the Arts is supporting a series of six commissions from seven contemporary artists across various disciplines.

Harvard music professor Alex Reading’s book turns up volume on Golden Record of sounds of our civilization sent into space.

New volume fills gap in scholarship on work of celebrated Black photographer Carrie Mae Weems.

Zoom pottery class enlists Harvard Art Museums experts to help re-create treasures from the collection.

Horace D. Ballard, the Harvard Art Museums’ new curator of American art, wants us to engage in big questions of our time through works of another.

While spending a year at Radcliffe working on her latest book, Lauren Groff switched gears after attending a talk by a fellowship classmate — and started a project focused on a medieval nun.

Teen’s shady father moves in when his mom is diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease in new novel by Atticus Lish.

Harvard’s Office for the Arts panel tackles the need for antiracism programming, allyship.

Annie Julia Wyman studied creative writing at Stanford, got her master’s and doctoral degrees in English at Harvard, and seemed destined for a career in academia. Then Hollywood came calling.

The Harvard Ed Portal teamed up with Brighton Main Streets to produce 10 free outdoor performances at the Brighton Farmers Market.

John Jay Cabuay explains how he strives to capture the spirit of the people he illustrates.

Harvard Ph.D. student Kéla Jackson’s virtual talk explored the ways muralist and printmaker Louis Delsarte embraced notions of music, color, and interiority in his work.

Cicadas emerging after 17 years of dormancy ignited a childhood memory in Joseph Koerner, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Art and Architecture .

Researchers at Dumbarton Oaks’ Plants Humanities Lab hope to shed light on the historical relationships between humans and their environments — and improve our current and future relationships with nature.

After 15 months of virtual performance and teaching, Vijay Iyer is returning to the physical stage.

Since Theater, Dance & Media launched in fall 2015 as Harvard’s 49th official concentration, almost 40 College students have graduated with a concentration in TDM and more than 90 have pursued secondary concentrations in the field.

“Moving Through History” is an immersive installation happening Wednesday and Thursday as part of the Creating Equal initiative.

Harvard professors Janine Jackson and Naomi Oreskes collaborate on music and climate change denial project.

Harvard English professor Jesse McCarthy embraces the essay as a form for exploring art, literature, politics.

Harvard Library’s completed digitization project offers opportunities to broaden the scholarly view of colonial era.

Diana Zlatanovski photographed a collection of cicadas housed at the Museum of Comparative Zoology for her new book of images, “Typology: Collections at the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture.”

Three students worked in collaboration with their instructors to develop an interactive theater experience focused on loss and sorrow.

Virtually Oberon features Queer Bodies in Motion’s first artistic endeavor, “Alice in Rainbowland.”

American Repertory Theater has been focusing on international collaborations, taking lessons from its recent productions that were able to bring live theater back abroad.

The art installation “Lucidity” was an immersive light and video display in Harvard Yard.

Jorie Graham and Louis Menand discuss Menand’s new book, “The Free World: Art and Thought in the Cold War,” his influences, and writing style.