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.

England’s First Sports Megastar

A collection of illustrations capture a boxer’s triumphant moment. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Troubadour style dagger from France in Harvard Art Museums described

Is this a dagger which I see before me…? Not primarily.

by Christopher Reed

Sackler exhibition reveals artistic discovery in Renaissance Europe

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw

Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials

Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials

Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts

Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts

Inventions in Early Modern Europe

Images from Stradanus’s "Nova reperta," a series of engravings representing technological innovations of the modern age from the perspective of a practicing artist

Harvard Archives launches website on Harvard in the 17th and 18th centuries

A new Archives website offers today's undergraduates a useful perspective on Harvard homework, and life, in the old days.

by Christopher Reed

High-Tech Art Sleuthing

Conservators are using laser-assisted pigment analysis to identify and authenticate the work of modern artists.

Harvard art exhibit "Tangible Things"

An exhibition asks the meaning of things.

by Christopher Reed