Arts & Culture

Four images: A poster announcing Arthur Kleinman's retirement; a photograph of him speaking at a podium in a packed auditorium; a bobblehead of Harry Lewis, wearing glasses and a long brown coat; and Harry Lewis at a classroom podium, smiling

University News |

Two Momentous Faculty Retirements

Arthur Kleinman and Harry Lewis depart the classroom.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Illustration of Blue bird, turtle, and green frog by a pond with cattails and lily pads.

Montage | May-June 2025

A New Voice

Ann Kim Ha’s poignant children’s books

by Lydialyle Gibson

Jesse Cox smiling at a table with music notes and a book, with drums and cymbals behind him

John Harvard's Journal | May-June 2025

Jessie Cox

An experimental percussionist-composer pushing the limits of music

by Lydialyle Gibson

Arts & Culture |

Remembering Earl Kim

A documentary revisits the composer and Harvard professor’s music.

by Nina Pasquini

Alejandra Escalante, Kate Hamill, Nike Imoru, and Wayne T. Carr in The Odyssey

Arts & Culture |

Staging Memory

The A.R.T. adapts The Odyssey.

by Max J. Krupnick

A cyclist rides in a bike lane that ends abruptly near a sidewalk as a red pickup truck passes nearby.

Features | March-April 2025

Safe Streets

Working to curb road deaths

by Max J. Krupnick

Painting of swimmers in blue tones

Harvard Squared | March-April 2025

Emerging Maine Artists

Works by young artists at the Portland Museum of Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

Sunlit library room at the Boston Atheneum

Harvard Squared | March-April 2025

The New Old Boston Athenaeum

Find “the joy of discovery and power of this unique place.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Toussaint Miller in a dark sweater plays the trumpet on stage with eyes closed.

University People | March-April 2025

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

A violinist in a green shirt plays on stage, smiling, with microphones and stage lighting in the background.

Montage | March-April 2025

Banned in Sparta

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert

A person with long brown hair wears a sleeveless green dress with a kiwi fruit pattern, sitting in a vintage-style café.

Montage | March-April 2025

Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves

The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood

by Nina Pasquini