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.

New Books from Harvard Authors

Bad Bunny, spider fears, healthcare policy, and more

by Gabriella Gage

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Ancestral Influences

View images of Phillip Charette's masks alongside masks from the Smithsonian Institution holdings that inspired him.

Arts Administration in Challenging Times

Michael M. Kaiser, known for steering the Kennedy Center and other troubled arts organizations back to health, shares his secrets with a Harvard audience.

On Judicial Interpretation

Paul M. Barrett reviews The Invisible Constitution, by Loeb University Professor Laurence H. Tribe.

by Paul M. Barrett

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Second-Life Photography

A profile of cultural photographer Lee Smith

by Craig Lambert

A Scourge Remembered

A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.

by Elizabeth Gudrais

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

A Yodel for Help in the Modern World

Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.

by Craig Lambert

Fernando Zóbel de Ayala

A brief profile of the peripatetic painter and philanthropist

by John Seed