Arts & Culture
Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.
Pleasure by Proxy: How Other People’s Experiences Help Predict Happiness
Other people’s experience is a more accurate guide than your own imagination to what you will like.
Indie film producer Mynette Louie interviewed
Film producer Mynette Louie ’97 on films, audiences, and the quest to connect them.
A new book collects theater photographs by Angus McBean
Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.
Carl Sprague designs film and theater sets
Carl Sprague ’84 designs sets for local theater companies and Hollywood movies.
Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”
Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.
by Adam Kirsch
An excerpt from "Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch
An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch
The Brattle Theatre shows Mynette Louie's film Children of Invention
Boston-area readers can catch the film in Harvard Square starting this weekend. Producer Mynette Louie ’97 will appear at some screenings.
Video clips from Children of Invention, produced by Mynette Louie
Despite winning multiple prizes, the film—produced by Mynette Louie ’97—has struggled to find an audience or turn a profit in an uncertain time for indie film.
Oscar nominees include film from book by Harvard anthropologist Kimberly Theidon
Kimberly Theidon's book on female victims of Peruvian violence was the basis for The Milk of Sorrow, nominated for best foreign-language film.
Alex Ross Argues for Presenting Classical Music in Unorthodox Settings
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross ’90 argues for presenting classical music in unorthodox settings.