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.
2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises with Natalie Zemon Davis and D.A. Powell
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis speaks on "The Possibilities of Friendship." Also featuring poet D.A. Powell with a vivid new work. [video/audio]
Borowitz on Need to Know TV show
Humorist Andy Borowitz ’80 will do a comedy segment each week on a new PBS news program, Need to Know.
Highbrow Lingerie
Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.
Recent books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Quotation Q & A
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.
Tasmanian crocoite at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s work fuses ancient and modern art
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.
by Paul Gleason
Skyscrapers as symbols
In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.
David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
by David Warsh