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Music

The Digitally Enhanced Rise of PSY

The Korean-born rapper is a social media superstar.

5.10.13

Jazzy Tribute to Tom Everett

The Harvard University Jazz Bands performed a special concert for recently retired director Tom Everett.

4.15.13

Band Director Tom Everett Steps Down

After more than four decades of service, the maestro retires next month.

1.11.13

Avant-garde, Post-Romantic

Hannah Lash’s personal, yet crystalline, music

12.14.12

Books

Tom Reiss ’86 Wins Pulitzer for Biography

Bailyn, Kayyem, Wen named finalists.

4.15.13

A Scientist in Full

The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz

4.15.13

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

4.15.13

Like Garlic or Burning Matches

A new book traces napalm’s invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah

4.15.13

Visual Arts

Advancing the Science and Art of Teaching

Highlights from the second University-wide Harvard Initiative on Learning and Teaching conference

5.10.13

Art Thieves Identified

The FBI has identified the thieves who stole 13 paintings from the Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990.

3.18.13

Detective in Pop Culture

Bob Egan finds the original venues of iconic images.

2.14.13

Please Touch the Art

Jennifer Rubell makes art to touch, crawl into, or even drink and eat.

2.14.13

Architecture

Micro-units: A New Trend?

Tiny apartments are on the rise in cities like San Francisco and Boston.

4.15.13

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

4.15.13

Living Large in Tiny Apartments

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

4.15.13

Vive Le Corbusier!

Eduard Sekler opened an exhibition on the architecture of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with a talk on its architect.

4.5.13

Theater

A “Pirates of Penzance” Party

The ART presents Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance in a party-like atmosphere.

5.16.13

Leading Man

A Broadway actor on the “true spark of theater”

4.15.13

A Pitch-Perfect “Glass Menagerie”

Tennessee Williams gets his first ART production.

2.22.13

Kiefer Sutherland Named Man of the Year

The Golden Globe-winning actor will receive his Pudding Pot February 8.

2.5.13

Film

Matt Damon: From Harvard to Hollywood, and Back Home

The actor receives the 2013 Arts Medal to kick off the Arts First celebration.

4.26.13

Soul Beyond the Skin

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

4.15.13

Inside the “War on Drugs”

The House I Live In examines the link between American drug laws and poverty.

3.28.13

Matt Damon, Arts Medalist

Movie actor Matt Damon has been chosen to receive the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal at the Arts First Festival on April 28.

1.16.13

Museums & Collections

New Vice President for Harvard Library

Sarah Thomas of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries named to new post.

5.21.13

Islamic Harmony

Art on display from Iran, Iraq, and Central Asia spans a millennium.

4.15.13

The Builder’s Art

A sidewalk-superintendent’s report

4.15.13

Art Thieves Identified

The FBI has identified the thieves who stole 13 paintings from the Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990.

3.18.13

Literary Life

Bicoastal Poet, Beat Reporter

August Kleinzahler and Linda Greenhouse to speak at Commencement-week PBK Literary Exercises

5.21.13

Harvard Portrait: Martin Puchner

The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.

4.15.13

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

4.15.13

Richard Blanco: “Navigating Identities”

The inaugural poet speaks about being a gay Cuban American.

3.8.13

Fashion

Hats of Their Own

New top hats for women appear at Commencement

4.15.13

A Designer Refines

Katiti Kirondé ’79 on the details of fashion

12.17.12

The Study of Fashion

Harvard faculty Jeannie Suk and Mukti Khaire study the fashion business.

12.14.12

Model Student

Sonia Dara, a Harvard student, is an active fashion model who appeared in the 2010 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue

12.14.12

Food

Square Newbies

Something old, something new

4.15.13

Neighborhood Favorite

Bergamot offers fresh food and refined comfort.

2.14.13

The Art of the Cookbook

“Doc” Willoughby talks grilling and writing.

2.14.13

Grill It!

Cookbook author “Doc” Willoughby ’70 makes a Thai-inspired sauce.

2.13.13

Dance

The Inspired Choreography of Irineo Cabreros

The Harvard senior displays impressive range, from his dance compositions to his extra-choreographical pursuits.

5.6.13

Harvard Happenings

Harvard arts and cultural events

10.15.12

Poetry, Architecture, and Dance, Combined

Original works highlight new dance director’s focus on innovation

4.4.12

Modern Moves Keep Dance Company Contemporary

The oldest Harvard-Radcliffe student dance group celebrates 35 years.