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

The Radcliffe Choral Society sings behind the Phi Beta Kappa officials, honored guests, and speakers during the literary exercises in Sanders Theatre.

Phi Beta Kappa exercises 2012: Derek Bok on civics education; poet Kay Ryan

Poet and orator highlight Harvard's Phi Beta Kappa literary exercises.

Richard Beaudoin

Richard Beaudoin's choral arrangement of Seamus Heaney's poem for Harvard 350th

Seamus Heaney's 1986 Harvard poem, set to music

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

American Academy of Arts and Letters awards to Harvard alumni

Alumni recognized by American Academy of Arts and Letters

Peonies and Butterflies (c. 1757)

Japanese nature painting exhibit is National Gallery's seventh most popular ever

Suite of Japanese nature paintings draws more visitors than 1976 King Tut exhibit

Andy Samberg and Barney Frank

Andy Samberg and Barney Frank to speak at Harvard College Class Day 2012

Seniors will hear the congressman and the comedic actor on May 23.

William Kentridge gives this year's first Norton Lecture in Sanders Theatre on March 20.

Filmmaker William Kentridge's vision for art that resists rationality and limits

William Kentridge’s vision for art that resists rationality and limits

Music 190gw students perform two South Indian classical pieces, <i>Kripaju</i> and <i>Varanarada,</i> by the saint and composer Tyagaraja (1767-1847).

Breaking Boundaries exhibit showcases art-making in Harvard classrooms

Exhibition showcases art-making in Harvard classrooms

Jorie Graham

Harvard poets celebrated at a dramatic live reading

Showcasing works from the past century-plus

Tommy Lee Jones

Tommy Lee Jones receives the Harvard Arts Medal

The actor collects the medal and discusses his career.

The human urge to create art appears magnificently in the Paleolithic paintings from roughly 30,000 years ago at Chauvet Cave, in southern France. Here, the Panel of the Horses.

Harvard sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the origins of the arts

Sociobiologist E.O. Wilson on the evolution of culture