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.

For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Bed furnishings in early America

A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA

“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA

by Nell Porter-Brown

A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine

Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Looking at the Cosmos through a Feminine Lens

Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.

by Oset Babür

Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song

A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration

by Lydialyle Gibson

Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen

Boston’s seasonal arts events

Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Millicent Todd Bingham

Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar

by Julie Dobrow

Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten

Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.

by Jennifer Gersten

Robert Coles and Atul Gawande on William Carlos Williams

Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams