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.
Harvard Divinity School Sets New Priorities
After two years of turmoil, Dean Marla Frederick describes a more pluralistic future for the institution’s culture and curriculum.
American composer Johnny Green
Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989
by Sol Hurwitz
Nineteenth-century dancing lessons
A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.
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.