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Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

10.7.14

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass

Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.

8.15.14

Extracurriculars

Harvard and Greater Boston arts and cultural events

8.15.14

Books

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

Harvardians Long-listed for National Book Awards

Eight University affiliates are recognized by the National Book Foundation.

9.23.14

An Expert on Sharing

Tara Altebrando ’92 is the coauthor of a timely book.

8.15.14

Ensnared

From personal catastrophe to enforced poverty

8.15.14

Visual Arts

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants

8.15.14

Extracurriculars

Harvard and Greater Boston arts and cultural events

8.15.14

Lives in Art

Early American artifacts help animate history.

6.17.14

Architecture

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

Dunster Deconstruction

House Renewal reaches a whole new scale.

8.15.14

Steeple Sounds

Memorial Church’s cracked bell is replaced.

8.15.14

A Park of One’s Own

The last home and private garden of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of modern landscape architecture

8.15.14

Theater

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

Staging Magic

The ART launches a sumptuous world premiere of Finding Neverland

8.15.14

Extracurriculars

Harvard and Greater Boston arts and cultural events

8.15.14

The Peter Pan Myth, Reinvented

The new musical Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater once again revives the myth of Peter Pan and his creator, J.M. Barrie.

8.14.14

Film

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

Cinema with Gravitas

Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.

8.15.14

Extracurriculars

Harvard and Greater Boston arts and cultural events

8.15.14

Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88

The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.

6.30.14

Museums & Collections

Dumbarton Oaks Fêtes New Programs and Spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

10.7.14

Catastrophe Mapped

A new way to see World War I

8.15.14

Tibetan Literature, Digitized

Harvard Library helps preserve Tibet’s literary heritage.

8.15.14

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants

8.15.14

Literary Life

Harvard Honors Eight with Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University’s highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

10.1.14

How to Read a Russian Poem

Professor Stephanie Sandler teaches Osip Mandelstam’s “Wasps,” and the power of listening.

9.25.14

Harvardians Long-listed for National Book Awards

Eight University affiliates are recognized by the National Book Foundation.

9.23.14

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

8.15.14

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

Attention, Please

Boston’s Asta is a tasty adventure

8.15.14

Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants

8.15.14

Food Fiesta

A diversity of Latin American food shines in East Boston.

6.16.14

Creative Kitchens

Cambridge chefs delight in novelty.

4.11.14

Dance

Extracurriculars

Harvard and Greater Boston arts and cultural events

8.15.14

Addressing a Decline in Humanities Enrollment

How to reinvigorate the humanities at Harvard is the subject of new faculty reports

6.6.13

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