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.

Trump Administration Appeals Order Restoring $2.7 Billion in Funding to Harvard

The appeal, which had been expected, came two days before the deadline to file.

by Jonathan Shaw

Robert Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago

Sociologist Robert J. Sampson documents enduring neighborhood differences in Chicago.

Actor Jonathan Epstein performs a Shakespearean sonnet: video

Watch the Shakespearean actor take the stage during one of his sonnet workshops.

Actor Jonathan Epstein explores Shakespeare's sonnets and plays

Actor Jonathan Epstein teaches “five-finger exercises for the soul.”

by Craig Lambert

Arthur Kleinman on the modern Chinese psyche

Arthur Kleinman and colleagues explore the Chinese people's yearnings after a century of upheaval and disasters.

Harvard republishes Stephen Jay Gould

Popular works by evolutionary biologist and baseball fan Stephen Jay Gould back in print

Katrina Roberts's poems trace life back to stardust

Katrina Roberts’s poems suggest that life springs from stardust.

by Craig Lambert

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

David Kwong does magic and builds crossword puzzles

David Kwong has a trick that’s all his own.

by Qichen Zhang

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, explored by Adam Kirsch

Adam Kirsch reads the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library—the latest stage in the “American conquest of the Middle Ages”

by Adam Kirsch

Walker Evans photographs on display at Mather House

Prints from the twentieth-century photographer will be shown through the spring.