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.
Harvard Football: Harvard 45, Penn 43
An epic finish ensures another Ivy title. Next up: Yale. And after?
Second-Life Photography
A profile of cultural photographer Lee Smith
A Scourge Remembered
A new film by G. Wayne Miller looks back to a time when tuberculosis gripped America.
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
A Yodel for Help in the Modern World
Playwright Christopher Durang, a “native American absurdist,” writes black comedies that turn painful events into hilarity.
Fernando Zóbel de Ayala
A brief profile of the peripatetic painter and philanthropist
by John Seed
Pith Paper
On Tetrapanax papyriferum and Chinese art
Advice on Art and Life from Yo-Yo Ma
The cello virtuoso speaks to students interested in arts careers, and President Faust announces progress on arts offerings.
Zellweger Gets Her Pudding Pot
Traffic came to a stop in Harvard Square today for a parade with Renée Zellweger, the Hasty Pudding "woman of the year."
A Death in the Harvard Family: John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92
Noted author John Updike ’54, Litt.D. ’92, died of lung cancer on January 27 at the age of 76.
A Lover's Picnic
The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.