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.
Jane Pickering director Harvard science, culture museums
Jane Pickering appointed executive director of science, culture museums
Lincoln movie screenplay writer Tony Kushner talks with Harvard President Faust
The screenwriter speaks to the Harvard community at a private screening of the film.
French pastry chef Pierre Hermé speaks at Harvard's Graduate School of Design
Chef Pierre Hermé speaks at the GSD on the marriage of architecture and pastry.
Ken Burns visits Harvard to discuss his new PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl"
Ken Burns shares clips from his chronicle of one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history.
Harvard redesigns the Science Center Plaza for the common space initiative
A redesigned Science Center plaza will serve a new social function for the Cambridge campus.
Rotterdam art theft prompts response from security expert Anthony Amore
Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, comments on a Rotterdam museum’s loss.
Four Freedoms Park dedicated in New York City to Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The New York City site is the first memorial to the president in his home state.
Helen Vendler on admitting and nurturing creative undergraduates
Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future
Alex Dumas, inspiration for "The Count of Monte Cristo," by Tom Reiss
Brief life of the soldier who inspired The Count of Monte Cristo: 1762-1806
by Tom Reiss
The wealth and fall of David and Jackie Siegel: a documentary
A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”
by Laura Levis