Performing & Recorded Arts


Faith through Film

The “Accidental Talmudist” on making Jewish movies

by Max J. Krupnick

Not “Mickey Mousing”

Three pianists making silent film sing

by Sophia Nguyen

Kevin Beasley at the ICA/Boston

Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there

by Nell Porter-Brown

MASS MoCA

MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pipe Up

Seasonal concerts at the Methuen Memorial Music Hall

by Nell Porter-Brown

Cinema Through Dualities

Wim Wenders delivers the final installment in the 2018 Norton Lectures on Cinema. 

by Sophia Nguyen

Educational Improv

A theatre troupe aims for higher ed.

by Sophia Nguyen

“The Art, the Play, and the Rigor”

How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department

by Lucy Caplan

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