Arts & Culture

Explore Harvard’s vibrant arts scene—from campus exhibitions and theater to cultural analysis and literary reviews. Discover how creativity shapes the Harvard experience.

rendered portraits of the Alma Mater and John Harvard statues against the White House in the background

Harvard in the Crosshairs |

International Scholars and Students Targeted—Again

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces fresh investigation into Harvard’s participation in the Exchange Visitor Program.

by Jonathan Shaw

Joan Kane on King Island

Alumni | January-February 2015

A Poet’s Return

For Joan Naviyuk Kane ’00, an abandoned island is a potent creative source.

by Melanie Wang

A seven-drawer desk (detail)

Montage | January-February 2015

Wood into Art

Anthony Giachetti’s furniture is both functional and timeless.

Montage | January-February 2015

Open Book: Rough Road for Capitalism

A critique of the neoliberal economy

Though A Far Cry tours nationally and abroad, the group still calls Boston home, renting a storefront in Jamaica Plain as rehearsal space.

Montage | January-February 2015

Divertimentos and Democracy

A Far Cry plays con spirito—and without a baton.

by Sophia Nguyen

Amy Wilentz

Montage | January-February 2015

A Love Affair with Haiti

Amy Wilentz on her “touchstone and central obsession”

by Craig Lambert

America’s (and Harvard’s) first Chinese-language teacher, Ge Kunhua, circa 1880

Montage | January-February 2015

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Shakespeare, as rendered in an eighteenth-century engraving

Montage | January-February 2015

Let the Sonnets Be Unbroken

Neil Rudenstine guides readers through Shakespeare’s lyric masterpiece.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Montage | January-February 2015

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

The Cooper Gallery opened with its first exhibit on October 21, which will be on view until January 8.

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2015

Lighting Up Mount Auburn Street

Another art museum opens—this one, a gallery for African and African-American Art.

by Sophia Nguyen

A wood joint that Liesl Ulrich-Verderber ’15 and Mathew Murray ’16 designed during the first weeks of the construction lab.

John Harvard's Journal | January-February 2015

Architecture as Liberal Art

Design becomes a hands-on “study of culture itself” in the undergraduate architecture studies track.

by Stephanie Garlock