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.

Sam Liss to Head Harvard’s Office for Technology Development

Technology licensing and corporate partnerships are an important source of revenue for the University.

by Jonathan Shaw

From Soaps to Solos

Operatic bass Ethan Herschenfeld sings around the world, but also enjoys acting on TV (Damages)...

by Daniela Amini

Vintage Brevities

The Harvard Map Collection in Pusey Library has recently become home to more than 10,000 map postcards...

Shakespeare, Lost and Found

How could it be that a Shakespeare play currently being performed at the American Repertory Theatre was actually written not by The Bard, but by two men of Harvard?

Freeing Speech

Anthony Lewis’s Freedom for the Thought That We Hate: A Biography of the First Amendment offers a lucid and engaging overview of American...

Solar Sculptor

Michael Kapetan’s sundials don’t do “clock time”...

by Cara Feinberg

Chapter & Verse

Michael Comenetz asks if the phrase “Galloping Gordon,” sometimes applied to British prime minister Gordon Brown, originated with...

This Blessed Plot, This Earth, This Realm, This Harvard~Part Three

Harvard-specific adaptation of a Shakespearean excerpt by playwright Alison Carey ’82...

John Chervinsky

Photograph by Stu Rosner John Chervinsky Like many people, John Chervinsky takes his work home. But what this lab engineer takes home may one...

Identity Seeker

Sergio Troncoso ’83 showed up in Cambridge in 1979 with a suitcase full of T-shirts brought from his hometown on the Texas-Mexico border...

by Liz Goodwin

Glass Jelly

The blue beauty at left is Porpita mediterranea rendered in glass, reproduced here at about twice life size. These jellies, moved by wind and...