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 Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faces a $350 Million Deficit
At a faculty meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra advocates for long-term, structural solutions.
Boston in Motion
An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
Paul Dudley White documentary possibility
A possible film about cardiologist Paul Dudley White
A Sweeping Exhibit Covers 250 Years of Japanese Art
Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.”
Photo Recap: The 70th Annual Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year
Elizabeth Banks and Ben Platt received this year’s honors.
Excerpt from Adam Cohen, “Supreme Inequality”
A thumb on the scales
Profile of novelist Yangsze Choo
Malaysian-born Yangsze Choo writes novels infused with the tropical mysteries of her childhood.
Rare books at risk
Consequences of book-breaking
Karl May, best-selling German novelist
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, profiled
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
Excerpt from Bernard Bailyn, “Illuminating History”
An addiction to reading