Arts & Culture
Two Momentous Faculty Retirements
Arthur Kleinman and Harry Lewis depart the classroom.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Visiting Hours
The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.
by Olivia Schwob
“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
by Lucy Caplan
Gloucester’s Beauport Mansion
A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.
by Nell Porter-Brown
A “Declaration of Love and Guts”
Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
The Pleasure of Noticing
Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.
by Sophia Nguyen
Comedy Compulsion
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
by Sophia Nguyen
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.
by Sophia Nguyen
“Inventur” Revisits Postwar Germany
Taking stock of an overlooked cohort of artists: those who, during World War II, stayed in Germany—and survived
by Sophia Nguyen
Can Science Justify Itself?
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
by Ada Palmer
Makeda Best
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
by Sophia Nguyen