"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.

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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

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A recent favorite! #Harvard
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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.

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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.’"
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Posting this story from earlier this month: Patricia Lockwood's visit to Harvard for the Mahindra Humanities Center's 'Writers Speak' series
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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:
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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.

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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

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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.

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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.
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“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.

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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. 👁️

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"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."

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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:

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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.

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