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.
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Bed furnishings in early America
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
Arts join sciences in Harvard Allston
Alongside a huge applied-sciences center, a toehold for art-making
Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
Tale of Genji Illustrated
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited
Profile of installation artist Liz Glynn
In Liz Glynn’s massive installations, big questions about the meaning of value
Looking at the Cosmos through a Feminine Lens
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
by Oset Babür
Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration