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An older couple standing in a large room filled with pianos

Patricia and Edmund Michael Frederick have been collecting and restoring historical pianos since the 1970s.

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Arts

An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession

2.6.23

empty basketball court

 

Photograph by Unsplash/edited by Harvard Magazine

An athlete contends with injury and identity.

9.20.22

Mary Summers

Mary Summers

Photograph courtesy of the Corcoran Collective

A documentary from 1970 is re-released and newly relevant. 

8.1.22

A portrait phot of Emily Carmichael

Emily Carmichael

Photograph by Art Streiber for Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment

Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics

July-August 2022

Film poster for DASH, showing the driver in front of his car on Hollywood Boulevard

The film poster for DASH

Photograph courtesy of Spam Pictures

Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take

4.8.22

Abraham Riesman, at home in Providence with his cat, Barbara, writes about pop culture’s overlooked depths.

Photograph by Jim Harrison

Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur

March-April 2022

Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner

Jason Bateman and Jennifer Garner

Photographs by Niko Yaitanes/Harvard Magazine

Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman received the 72nd annual honors.

2.7.22

During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson plays a violin of her own invention.

During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson sometimes dances with herself or plays a violin of her own invention.
Screenshot by Lily Scherlis

Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.

11.8.21

“/Gaishay focusing the camera,” a photograph taken during a 1957-58 ethnographic expedition in Namibia, shows three indigenous boys, one standing behind a camera on a tripod

“/Gaishay focusing the camera,” a photograph taken during a 1957-58 ethnographic expedition in Namibia.

Photograph is a gift of Laurence K. Marshall and Lorna J. Marshall © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, PM2001.29.15489

Seeking mentorship as a student of color, and finding a calling in the arts

September-October 2021