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.

Columbia player is tackled from behind by a Harvard defender during a play.

Harvard Football: Harvard 31, Columbia 14

The Crimson stay unbeaten with a workmanlike win over the Lions.

by Dick Friedman

Ambient lighting and comfy chairs star in the second-floor dining room.

Bistro du Midi offers French fare near the Public Garden

Fine French fare within sight of the Public Garden

by Nell Porter-Brown

Ellen Faran and Gita Manaktala

Ellen Faran and Gita Manaktala of MIT Press

Ellen Faran ’73 and Gita Manaktala ’87 advance knowledge through publishing.

by Katherine Xue

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at MGH

Putting a warm face on an intimidating proposition

by Christopher Reed

The Peabody Museum's Alexandre A. Tokovinine, a lecturer on anthropology and research associate, is shown at work within a protective tent during the scanning of the Chinese stele—conducted at night for optimal results.

Restoring Chinese monument Harvard campus

Preserving an historic Chinese monument, long neglected

An aerial view indicating the site

Harvard Business School new Chao building fellowships

The Chao Family Foundation donates $40 million for an executive-education facility and fellowships.

Jorie Graham

Harvard professor and poet Jorie Graham wins Forward Poetry Prize

The poet's book Places won the 2012 Forward prize for a poetry collection.

Wang produced a pigment mixing system that generated 411 colors—equal in number to the most comprehensive list of identified cell types in the adult human body—and deployed a color-coding system that he used to paint each individual cell by hand.

Michael Wang '03 creates micrograph art of artificially produced stem cells

Michael Wang's Differentiation Series, a sequence of micrograph images of artificially produced stem cells, is on display at the Carpenter Center through October 7.

Chef Joan Roca demonstrates the sous vide technique on a piece of Dover sole.

Chefs Joan and Jordi Roca speak at Harvard's Science and Cooking lecture series

Two top chefs combine molecular techniques with traditional Catalan cuisine.

Photograph (c. 1935) of a fragment from a 12th–14th century Thai bodhisattva statue, along with the plasticene copy made by a pupil at the Perkins Institute who manually explored, and then copied, the hand.

Grants make Harvard Art Museums collections more accessible

The funds enabled creation of in-depth finding aids for historical materials.

Ethan Lasser

Ethan Lasser appointed curator at Harvard Art Museums

New curator brings in-gallery teaching experience to American art collection