Campus Arts
Experience Chinatown: The On-Going Festival Celebrating Boston’s Chinatown
This fall, the Pao Arts Center is celebrating the vibrant life of Boston’s Chinatown with its first full-capacity arts festival since the pandemic.
Music in the Courtyard Returns to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
During the installation, museum visitors milled about the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum as the music from the center Courtyard echoed through the adjoining rooms.
Social House Brings 'Magic' to the Yard at First In-Person Crimson Jam in 3 Years
Hundreds of students flocked to Harvard Yard Friday to see musical duo Social House grace the stage at the College’s first in-person Crimson Jam in three years.
Boston Ballet’s ‘MINDscape’: The Fusion of Classical and Contemporary
These exciting contemporary works not only captivated the audience with their novelty, but also with their revolutionary fusion of classical and contemporary elements in ballet.
The Revolution: Eleganza Returns to Harvard’s Campus
On Saturday, April 23, students made the trek across the Charles River to the Bright-Landry Hockey Center to witness what at this point is more lore than anything else: the first live Eleganza performance since 2019.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Review: A Triumphant Return to the Stage
The dancers were triumphant in their return to the stage, crafting a performance that was equally dynamic, technical, and enchanting.
Stars On Ice Review: Figure Skating Experts Dazzle in Boston
With a mix of both individual, pair, and group performances, the show was a theatrical spectacle of bright lights, mash-ups of hit songs, and mystifying on-ice stunts.
Cultivating Public Art in Cambridge: Piedmont’s Shadow Box
Every inch of Harvard Square must be utilized for small businesses to remain profitable. Within this bustling, commercial zone of Cambridge, however, there lies a hidden gem: A small place for public art.
Spanish 150 Students Curate Exhibit on Migration in Boylston Hall
The exhibit attempts to parse through the perpetual “bombardment of images” we consume regarding migration, according to Raquel Vega-Durán, who chairs the Faculty Advisory Committee for Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights.
‘Allowing Blackness to Thrive’: Black Arts Collective Holds Inaugural Mixer Featuring Tracy K. Smith ’94
The Black Arts Collective, a new undergraduate organization dedicated to Black artistry at Harvard, showcased student performers at its inaugural mixer Friday.
‘A Circle Around Your Thoughts:’ Immersive Klimt Exhibition Debuts in Boston
“We don’t want to make it always look like we’re going for the easy, shot-over-the-left-field-wall. Sometimes you want to do something more difficult, which Klimt is.”
The Small But Mighty: The River Charles Ensemble Takes the Stage
Despite consisting of only eight Harvard college students, the River Charles Ensemble’s powerful instrumental melody reverberated throughout the entirety of Paine Hall on April 16 as they celebrated their 10-year anniversary with a spring concert.
Artist Profile: Max Scherr ’21 Navigates the Industry as a Young Filmmaker
The film industry is notoriously hard to break into, particularly without a connection to open the door. Yet every few years a newcomer stuns the industry with their fresh ideas and unique perspective. Recent graduate Max Scherr ’21 hopes to be the next.
‘DREAMstate’ Review: Boston Ballet Explores the Liminal
Boston Ballet's "DREAMstate" featured a triple bill of three stunning contemporary ballets: George Balanchine’s 1976 ballet “Chaconne,” Stephen Galloway’s world premiere DEVIL’S/eye, and Jiří Kylián’s 1996 “Bella Figura.”
‘The Just and the Blind’ Review: A Display of Art as Resistance
Shakur’s words remind us that throughout the history of Black subjugation and oppression, the ability of love to persevere within communities was an act of resistance, and the fostering of something beautiful against all odds.
Cultural Rhythms: Back and Here to Stay for the 36th Year in a Row
The extravagant showcase of culturally diverse individual and group student performances has become the largest event that the Foundation plans each year alongside smaller initiatives like dialogues and peer-to-peer workshops promoting equity and inclusion.
‘Pops and the Island of Misfit Professors’ Review: An Exhilarating Musical Adventure
In addition to acting and a setlist that includes movie soundtracks, classical pieces, musical theater, and funk rock, Pops shines in its comedic timing.
The Radcliffe Institute Invites Laughter and Introspection at ‘To Laugh Is Your Only Job’
“This event represents an institutional shift in the focus that gender and comedy is getting on campus and how that might disseminate outwards to the greater comedy scene.”
Henri Zerner Lecture: Christiane Baumgartner’s Monumental Woodcuts
Internationally renowned German artist Christiane Baumgartner presented her monumental woodcuts, highlighting the value of slowing down and taking her time in the contexts of both her process of creating artwork by hand and her path to finding her personal artistic style.
The Black Arts Collective: The Students Creating Space for Black Arts on Campus
“There was a space that was lacking on campus for Black people to come together as a collective and create and appreciate art in a way that was healing and was empowering for us and for them.” Sesay said.
Boston Public Library Exhibition Explores Climate Change and Social Inequality
“This exhibition tries to take some of the massive amounts of data and analytic resources that are needed to understand a complicated question like climate change, and show how we might narrate that in a way that spurs political action,” Nelson said.
Exhibit Review: ‘Immersive Shevchenko: Soul Of Ukraine’
For the entirety of the 15-minute show, the exhibit entices all senses and transports the audience directly into the art. As soon as the lights dim and the paintings come to life, one feels as if Shevchenko himself is in the room.
‘Accommodating Lie’: Sankofa Danzafro Centers Black Bodies In Dance
“You could feel the pain. You could feel the elation, You could feel the confusion. You could feel it all.”
Artist Profile: Don Braden and The Universe at Work
Many of the core experiences that Braden relayed during a conversation with The Crimson led him right back to where he began at Harvard: jazz.
Exhibit Review: ‘Real Photo Postcards: Pictures from a Changing Nation’
The images, spanning from casual to orchestrated and formal, were oddly similar to what we might see today on Instagram and, as a result, felt intimate. Each photo had a different personality, each portrait representing a different life.