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.

Columbia player is tackled from behind by a Harvard defender during a play.

Harvard Football: Harvard 31, Columbia 14

The Crimson stay unbeaten with a workmanlike win over the Lions.

by Dick Friedman

<i>The Light Princess</i> at ART

Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December

Events on and off campus during November and December

Light from the Calderwood Courtyard is ideal for the display of ancient sculpture, like this Roman work.

Harvard's Art Museums reopen in Renzo Piano building designed for teaching

Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.

The young Laughlin in his New Directions office at his aunt&rsquo;s home in Connecticut

James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT

James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing

Sven Beckert

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.

Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.

by Craig Lambert

Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth performs at Dumbarton Oaks.

Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

Oprah Winfrey accepts the W.E.B Du Bois Medal for the late writer and activist Maya Angelou.

Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis

Master class by Stephanie Sandler on an Osip Mandelstam poem

Professor Stephanie Sandler teaches Osip Mandelstam's "Wasps," and the power of listening.

by Sophia Nguyen

FDR (first row, second from left) and his roommate Lathrop Brown (first row, far right) pose with fellow Glee Club members in the fall of their freshman year.

“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard

Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.

Scenes from <i>The Price of Sugar:</i> armed guards on horseback often patrol workers in shantytowns

Bill Haney's documentaries with social conscience

Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.

by Laura Levis