Performing & Recorded Arts

Harvard’s stages and studios come alive in this collection of music, theater, and performance coverage.

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

Braxton Shelley

A gospel scholar shapes music theory.

by Jacob Sweet

Between Harvard and St. Louis

The Undergraduate learns about making knowledge mutual.

by Che Applewhaite

Straight-Up News

Chris Wallace has “the toughest job of any television journalist.”

by Craig Lambert

A Life in Harmonica

Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.

by Jacob Sweet

Bringing the Stars to Light

Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Culture in the Cold War

In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

When Fantasy Isn’t Enough

Documentarian Lance Oppenheim explores life in The Villages.

by Alex Huls

Painterly Dances, Danceable Paintings

“Shen Wei: Painting in Motion,” at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Returning to the Big Screen

Greater Boston’s small cinemas strive to engage film-goers during the pandemic.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Edwin Binney, 3rd

Brief life of a philanthropic art collector: 1925-1986

by Madison U. Sowell