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.

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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Spinach Mushroom salad “with Seared Diver Scallops”

Salad restaurateur Erin Wade ’03 shares photos and two recipes

Erin Wade's special dressing recipes are sure to whet your appetite.

Illustration by F.D. Bedford for J.M. Barrie’s <i>Peter and Wendy.</i> As the children sleep, Peter crosses the sill in the glow of Tinker Bell’s light.

Recent books with Harvard connections

Gordon S. Wood on the birth of the United States, Steven Pinker on declining violence, Jack M. Balkin on "Living Originalism," and a dozen others whose recent books have Harvard connections

Grilled shrimp adds color to The Omega, a salad with avocado, corn, and cilantro.

Erin Wade's Vinaigrette salad bistro serves organic greens in Santa Fe

Erin Wade's Vinaigrette salad bistro serves organic, home-grown greens in Santa Fe.

A scene from Meredith James’s video <i>Day Shift </i>, starring James herself

Meredith James '04 creates videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions

Meredith James '04 creates surrealist videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions.

by Jesse Kornbluth

“Lost Decades" by Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden: an excerpt

Menzie Chinn and Jeffry Frieden review recent U.S. economic woes in the context of the “capital flow cycle.”

Puddles of water, a leitmotif in <i>Foreign Parts,</i> fill the rutted streets of Willets Point in Queens, a mecca for auto repair and parts.

"Foreign Parts" film explores Queens junkyard neighborhood Willets Point

The documentary film "Foreign Parts" explores Willets Point, a vanishing junkyard neighborhood in Queens.

by Craig Lambert

Troubadour style dagger from France in Harvard Art Museums described

Is this a dagger which I see before me…? Not primarily.

by Christopher Reed

The <i>Invention of Book Printing</i> comes from <i>Nova Reperta</i> (New inventions and discoveries of modern times), by Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), the first such illustrated compendium of postclassical innovations (ca. 1599- 1603). The ability to print many copies of such works revolutionized communication of ideas in the sixteenth century.

Sackler exhibition reveals artistic discovery in Renaissance Europe

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw

Brent R. Stockwell

David Nathan reviews Brent R. Stockwell's book on drug development

David Nathan reviews Brent R. Stockwell's "The Quest for the Cure"

An a cappella group performs in the rain. Despite monsoon-like weather, dozens of student music and dance groups performed in Harvard Yard as part of the evening's program.

Harvard 375th anniversary student music and dance performances

After much waiting and wondering, student music and dance groups perform around the Yard for a wet but appreciative crowd.