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 man in a suit speaking at a podium with a red drape and a university crest.

Garber to Serve as Harvard President Beyond 2027

A once-interim appointment will now continue indefinitely.

by Jonathan Shaw

Scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of Japan

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

by Nell Porter-Brown

“Joyous Protest Posters”

The Royal Chicano Air Force’s activist art at Houghton Library

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

A page of medieval script with brightly colored initial letter and drawings in the margins

Words with No Freedom

A Houghton Library exhibit explores writing in prison.

by Rodrigo del Río

Pictured left to right, top to bottom: Oge Ogbogu, Nicole Austen, Aarya Kaushik, Michael Evans

Meet Harvard’s Undergraduate Authors

Dystopia, sickle cell, jazz, and wolves: four Harvard students chronicle their paths to publication.

The Untold Story of Watercolors

Harvard Art Museums' exhibit highlights unsung facets of American watercolor.

by Nancy Walecki

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki

A live sketch from Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder trial. Daybell is in the middle between two men, all looking somber.

Something from Nothing

Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin

by Max J. Krupnick

A formal portrait or José Olivarez in a gold chain and velvet suit jacket, standing amid red drapes and palm plants.

For the Homies

In José Olivarez’s poetry, the political is personal.

by Josie Abugov

Impatience Is a Virtue

Violinist-multitasker Sumire Hirotsuru

by Jacob Sweet

Poster for Dos farkishefte shnayderl (the bewitched little tailor) in Paris, c. 1935

Charades with Chutzpah

Harvard’s Yiddish Theater Collection

by Max J. Krupnick