Take a look behind-the-scenes at Harvard commencement prep current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/behi...

The commencement profiles continue! Raghav Mehrotra shaped his Harvard studies around his interests: studying economics helped him better understand the music industry. Philosophy helped him think about art. The Berklee program refined his performance skills. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/find...

We're spotlighting seniors ahead of commencement this week! These two had much in common even before Harvard, growing up in NY and playing on rival HS lacrosse teams. Once on campus, they realized a shared passion for history and a dream of military service. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/lacr...

Speaking to an audience at Harvard's Hip-Hop Archive and Research Institute, Flavor Flav drew whoops and murmurs of recognition at the mention of some beloved Public Enemy classics and, at one point, his signature catchphrase “yeah, boyeeeee!” current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/harv...

Speaking to an audience at Harvard's Hip-Hop Archive and Research Institute, Flavor Flav drew whoops and murmurs of recognition at the mention of some beloved Public Enemy classics and, at one point, his signature catchphrase “yeah, boyeeeee!” current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/harv...

Harvard sophomore Mattea Conforti plays Becka in the new Hulu TV series “The Testaments,” a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. I sat down with her last month to chat about the role, her favorite Harvard courses, and how she balances being a student actor. current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/matt...

Harvard's Adams House Pool Theater has reopened after 2.5 years of renovations. It's first show? An immersive student production of “Rent.” More here: live-harvard-fas.pantheonsite.io/stories/reno...

Tara Menon’s “Under Water,” is a novel about friendship, grief, and a swiftly changing climate. “There are certain things we can’t control, and we can’t gain mastery of. There’s still ways in which the earth makes us stop,” Menon said. Read more here: current.fas.harvard.edu/stories/tara...

This year, Harvard campus is home to one current and two former National Youth Poet Laureates. I caught up with them to learn more about how the title changed them, how they balance creative writing with academics, and their evolving relationship to poetry. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Here's a recent story about a Harvard student who has undertaken a major project: writing a musical about the life of Frederick Douglass news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The true genius of Toni Morrison, says Harvard professor Namwali Serpell, isn’t found in the first read, but in the second, third, or fourth. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

For Robert Carlock ’95 and Tina Fey, who spoke at Harvard last week, success in comedy requires a combination of “benign grandiosity and imp of the perverse.” news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Acclaimed theater director Bill Rauch ’84 will be the recipient of the 2026 Harvard Arts Medal, the Office for the Arts announced today. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Harvard's Office for the Arts is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Learning From Performers program. The initiative brings professional artists to campus for events, workshops, coaching, and more. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

"We were about to see what would happen if we told this bot to write the lost play of Shakespeare, 'Cardenio.' Then I stopped." Check out the latest Harvard FAS Veritalk episode with Stephen Greenblatt on what we want from AI and what it means for human creativity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SYy...

This advanced writing course in Harvard's Theater, Dance & Media program simulates a TV writers room. “To make a tv show is to work incredibly collaboratively, and to risk failure, really boldly, over and over again in a serialized, recurrent way” - Phillip Howze news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

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Can rethinking how we teach introductory courses draw more students to the humanities? Harvard thinks so. A new initiative led by Arts & Humanities Dean Sean Kelly aims to reverse the nationwide decline in humanities enrollment. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Remembering poetry critic Helen Vendler this week on the anniversary of her death, and the conversation we had in 2023. Publishing a book, she said, was like “somebody had taken a piece of your soul, created it into an object, and said, ‘Here’s a piece of you back.’" news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Posting this story from earlier this month: Patricia Lockwood's visit to Harvard for the Mahindra Humanities Center's 'Writers Speak' series news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

It's been a treat to write about Harvard professor Jinah Kim's Mapping Color in History Project, an object-based pigment database for historical research on art from South Asia, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. Check the story out below: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Housing Day, one of Harvard’s most beloved (and rowdy) annual traditions, did not disappoint this year! "When I was a freshman I didn't realize how fun it was going to be," one student told me. "I didn't know how impactful it would be on my life." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Harvard professor Joseph Koerner’s new book examines three images created in dangerous moments, and how people throughout history have reacted to them. "Art has that characteristic of becoming relevant whether you like it or not," Koerner said. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

This exhibition brought together portraits from The Harvard Foundation Portraiture Project and Robert Shetterly '69. “Every one of the people I paint has a particular kind of courage that meets a particular moment,” Shetterly told chief campus curator Brenda Tindal news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

On Saturday, the Harvard Choruses will premiere an opera that tells the story of Puritan midwife and spiritual leader Anne Hutchinson. The story is close to home for Harvard students, as it brings to life a dramatic chapter of Boston history. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Davóne Tines, acclaimed operatic bass-baritone, is the recipient of the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, which will be awarded at a ceremony in May. The award honors excellence in the arts and contributions via the arts to education or public good. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

“Artmaking is born from courage." Harvard's Office for the Arts celebrated its 50th birthday this month, in an evening filled with storytelling and performances in music, dance, poetry, and more. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Harvard Theater, Dance & Media lecturer Kate Brehm is the director and designer of puppetry for the new "Odyssey" adaptation at the A.R.T. In this piece, she shared about the choreography of puppetry, and what exactly goes into making a cyclops eye. 👁️ news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

"The history of love and the history of technology have always been intertwined." New Q&A out now with Moira Weigel, Harvard assistant professor of comparative literature, and author of "Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating." news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

The Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East's new Joseph Lindon Smith painting is an example of archaeological documentation before color photography. But it's also still a valuable historical record to scholars today. Read more here: news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

How has the 'Harvard novel,’ a subset of campus fiction, maintained such a longstanding appeal? Associate professor of humanities Beth Blum shares insights on novels that engage with Harvard as an object of cultural intrigue and critique. news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...