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.
For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner
Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.
Charlie Allen's art of home restoration
Charlie Allen makes period homes work for their owners. View images of his work.
Green architecture for a Kripalu addition.
The newest addition to a Berkshires yoga retreat melds with the landscape. View an image gallery.
Profile of literary agent Andrew Wylie
Andrew Wylie '70 runs a powerful literary agency that mixes hardball business and highbrow tastes. With audio from an interview with Wylie.
Updike papers at Houghton Library
Taking a look at the Houghton Library holdings
When print advertising shifted from black and white to color
As consumer products grew more colorful, so did the ads. View an image gallery.
Harvard Headlines: Books by Melvin Konner, Steven Shapin, and Thomas Bisson
Three recent reviews of books by Harvard-affiliated scholars (two faculty members and one alumnus).
New Yorker writer John McPhee's listener, Gordon Gund '61
A Paris Review article describes how renowned author John McPhee reads his drafts to his friend Gordon Gund ’61.
Articles on the urban plantscape; a prestigious math award; Commencement humor
Our news roundup includes articles on landscape architecture professor Peter del Tredici and mathematics professor John Tate, and Commencement humor from The Onion.
Denise Scott Brown speaks at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Architect Denise Scott Brown recommends hitchhiking and the brave results that can emerge from tackling hard problems.
Panic in the Year Zero: A Poem by D.A. Powell
A poem by D.A. Powell, from the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. [audio]