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.

A group of choir singers performs in a cathedral

A Harvard Choral Group Sings Again, 50 Years Later

The Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum reunites for a 50th anniversary tour around France.

by Olivia Farrar

Steven Spielberg, left, converses with Mahindra Humanities Center director Homi Bhabha.

Steven Spielberg speaks at Harvard’s Hauser Forum for the Arts

The filmmaker discusses his influences and inspirations.

Megan Marshall

Havard alumna Megan Marshall ’77 wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Damrosch, O’Brien, and Adams named finalists.

Photograph ©Peter Vanderwarker/Harvard Art Museums

Harvard Art Museums opening

After a multiyear renovation, Harvard Art Museums make ready for a November reopening.

Alden & Harlow offers creative “American-style tapas.”

Many Cambridge restaurants take risks and tend toward innovation.

Cambridge chefs delight in novelty.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Thackeray’s self-portrait from an 1848 edition of <i>Vanity Fair</i>

Harvard’s Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray

Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray.

by Christopher Reed

&ldquo;Interweave,&rdquo; a 1982 studio quilt by Michael James. From the Ardis and Robert James Collection.

Quilts are art, as the International Quilt Study Center and Museum proves

Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

In his Cambridge studio, Childs makes about six violins a year.

Bob Childs makes world-class violins

Bob Childs makes world-class violins.

by Laura Levis

An episode from <i>Starling</i> in which the superheroine, having made a midair rescue of an aspiring suicide who&rsquo;s leapt off a bridge, gets a not-especially-grateful reception.

Sage Stossel's graphic novel, Starling, depicts an anti-superheroine.

“Starling” can handle thugs and palookas, but not daily life.

by Craig Lambert

1911 Chicago Cubs player cards from the pre-Wrigley Field era, when baseball and smoking were <i>both</i> all-American

The sabermetric revolution

Economist Andrew Zimbalist analyzes the sabermetric revolution