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.
Eating for the Holidays, the Planet, and Your Heart
“Sustainable eating,” and healthy recipes you can prepare for the holidays.
A Lover's Picnic
The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.
Storytelling Scholar
Marie Rutkoski blends sixteenth-century history with fantasy in The Cabinet of Wonders, a new novel for young adults.
Outlining a New Vision for the Arts
The University-wide task force's report recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.
Degas, Renoir, and More on Display at Dumbarton Oaks
A collection of modern French paintings is being exhibited for the first time at this Harvard-owned museum in Washington, D.C.
Day-After Thoughts: "Words Have Made a Comeback"
Reflections from Humanities Center scholar-in-residence Kiku Adatto on the roles of images and rhetoric in the 2008 campaign and its media coverage
The Children of Noah
A map showing “The Dispersal of the Children of Noah,” in an exhibit at the Andover-Harvard Theological Library, reflects dispute by Puritan theologian Hugh Broughton...
Stinging the Dinosaurs
An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson
Photos in Thread
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman