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.

Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences Faces a $350 Million Deficit

At a faculty meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra advocates for long-term, structural solutions.

by Joanna M Weiss

Author Toni Morrison gives 2012 Harvard Divinity School Ingersoll Lecture

The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.

Contemporary art at Harvard Business School, thanks to Gerald W. Schwartz

An unusual art collection in an unexpected place

by John S. Rosenberg

Jane Pickering director Harvard science, culture museums

Jane Pickering appointed executive director of science, culture museums

Lincoln movie screenplay writer Tony Kushner talks with Harvard President Faust

The screenwriter speaks to the Harvard community at a private screening of the film.

French pastry chef Pierre Hermé speaks at Harvard's Graduate School of Design

Chef Pierre Hermé speaks at the GSD on the marriage of architecture and pastry.

Ken Burns visits Harvard to discuss his new PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl"

Ken Burns shares clips from his chronicle of one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history.

Harvard redesigns the Science Center Plaza for the common space initiative

A redesigned Science Center plaza will serve a new social function for the Cambridge campus.

Rotterdam art theft prompts response from security expert Anthony Amore

Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, comments on a Rotterdam museum’s loss.

Four Freedoms Park dedicated in New York City to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The New York City site is the first memorial to the president in his home state.

Helen Vendler on admitting and nurturing creative undergraduates

Helen Vendler on how to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future