Funny or creepy? MetaLab researcher creates sitcom-like experience

“The Laughing Room,” brainchild of Harvard metaLab researcher Jonny Sun, uses an algorithm to turn library visitors into performers.

Clea Simon • harvard
Nov. 19, 2018 ~4 min

Composer performs with birds to make his own kind of music

Composer David Rothenberg ’84 will bring the sounds of outdoors inside for a demonstration and discussion that features his unique ability to perform with nature.

Deborah Blackwell • harvard
Nov. 15, 2018 ~5 min


Tony Conrad: An artist of the avant-garde and the everyday

A whimsical artist’s work is being celebrated in the exhibit “Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective” at Harvard’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts and MIT's List Visual Arts Center.

Clea Simon • harvard
Nov. 14, 2018 ~6 min

Forum plots a ‘Pathway’ to careers in music or entertainment

Panelists at the Office of Career Services’ Music & Entertainment Pathways forum said the best way to a career in music or entertainment may well be networking.

La'Toya Princess Jackson • harvard
Nov. 13, 2018 ~2 min

At Harvard, the life and legacy of Gore Vidal

Author Gore Vidal left his papers and library to the University. The fruits of that gift, combined with an earlier gift of a portion of his papers in 2001, have been meticulously cataloged and archived at Houghton Library.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Nov. 9, 2018 ~9 min

Scholar speaks at Harvard on how images helped shaped legend of King Tut

Christina Riggs of the University of East Anglia previewed her forthcoming book, “Photographing Tutankhamun: Archaeology, Ancient Egypt, and the Archive,” in a Harvard lecture.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Nov. 9, 2018 ~7 min

Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum attracts ‘Little Women’ with Meryl Streep

Columbia Pictures transforms Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum into a Paris park as it films the American classic “Little Women.”

Deborah Blackwell • harvard
Nov. 1, 2018 ~3 min

Producer, consultant share creative ambition behind Pixar’s ‘Coco’

Harvard’s Office for the Arts will welcome producer Darla Anderson and cultural consultant Marcela Davison Aviles for a conversation about their work on the Academy Award-winning Pixar film “Coco.”

Jill Radsken • harvard
Oct. 31, 2018 ~6 min


Serious campus readers share their favorite spooky books for Halloween

In the days before Halloween, we asked Min Jin Lee, Maria Tatar, and other serious campus readers to share with us the stories that have scared them most — and why.

Colleen Walsh • harvard
Oct. 29, 2018 ~7 min

At Harvard, a show presents the influence of immigration on theater

At Harvard, a Houghton Library exhibit showcases the influence of immigration on American theater.

Clea Simon • harvard
Oct. 29, 2018 ~10 min

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