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.

Tara Menon’s Debut Novel Combines Friendship, Grief, and Climate Disaster

The popular Harvard English professor published Under Water this past spring.

by Andrés Muedano

Photographs of Arnold Arboretum trees and shrubs through four seasons

A veteran photographer of people turns his lens to plants.

by Jonathan Shaw

Rage, reborn: profile of guitarist Tom Morello

With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.

by Max Suechting

Excerpt from “The Known Citizen” by Sarah E. Igo

A sweeping history of the idea of privacy in America

“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn Ho

Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.

by Samantha Maldonado

Not “Mickey Mousing”: the rigors of accompanying silent films

Three pianists making silent film sing

by Sophia Nguyen

Book review: “A Terrible Country” is a cold, welcome wind

Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.

by Maggie Doherty

Radcliffe gymsuits, pre-spandex

Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged

by Sophia Nguyen

Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens

by Nell Porter-Brown

Kevin Beasley at ICA/Boston

Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there

by Nell Porter-Brown

MASS MoCA summer events

MASS MoCA’s summer smorgasbord

by Nell Porter-Brown