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.

Keri Russell Calls ‘The Diplomat’ a Love Letter to Public Servants

A Harvard Kennedy School event looks behind the scenes of the Netflix drama. 

by Tamara Evdokimova

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

Evan Thomas's biography of President Eisenhower

In Evan Thomas's new biography, President Eisenhower emerges as a canny nuclear strategist.

Art installation by Peter Agoos at Boston's Fort Point Channel

Peter Agoos ’75 brightened Boston’s public art scene this summer.