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.
Cerise Lim Jacobs's otherworldly operas
In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.
Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons
A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore
Harvard Film Archive
Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive
The presidency will be televised: "Jackie" and the paradox of American royalty
The screenplay, by Today Show producer Noah Oppenheim ’00, traces how the Camelot myth was made.
The Art of Protest
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
Writers Dick Friedman, Spencer Lenfield, and illustrator Brad Yeo honored
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
Doris Salcedo gives form to tragedy at Harvard's "The Materiality of Mourning"
A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.
“Presenting Jane," and a youthful summer for the New York School
A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.
"I once knew a girl": Carrie Mae Weems at Harvard's Cooper Gallery
Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery
Anna Deavere Smith welcomes Harvard to a "lecture-performance" on hospitality
In her “lecture-performance,” playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith practiced and preached “Radical Hospitality.”