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.

An illustration of a green leaf being hit by a beam of light and bouncing off the leaf and then becoming a color prisim

Right Now | July-August 2025

A Space-Age Project for Harvard’s Plant Collection

Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.

by Jonathan Shaw

Photograph of artist Romare Bearden standing by an easel c. 1940

Features | January-February 2020

Romare Bearden

Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988

by Robert G. O'Meally

Clay head over wooden pill bottles with wires representing the impact of opioids on human beings

Harvard Squared | January-February 2020

Visions of the Opioid Crisis

Revealing sculptures at the Fuller Craft Museum, in Brockton

by Nell Porter-Brown

Provincetown harbor in the winter

Harvard Squared | January-February 2020

Provincetown in the Off-Off Season

Just enough art, culture, terrific food, and lively conversation....

by Nell Porter-Brown

A spoof passport written in Spanglish for the fictional country El Spirit Republic of Puerto Rico, with a domino in place of a national seal on its cover

Features | November-December 2019

Made Visible

The ubiquity of movement across man-made borders

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Alumni | November-December 2019

Back to the Future

Promoting craftsmanship and agrarian skills in an idyllic New Hampshire setting

by Nell Porter-Brown

A colorful Byzantine funerary tunic fragment depicts faces and vegetal patterns with a border of gemstones.

Treasure | November-December 2019

Byzantine Beauties

Textile treasures from Dumbarton Oaks

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Images from the Ballets Russes

Elegant photographs of dancing’s stars

by Nell Porter-Brown

A grinning woman in traditional Nigerian dress sits cross-legged on the floor surrounded by modern devices, including a power strip, a land-line telephone, and a desktop computer displaying on its screen a duplicate image of the entire montage.

Harvard Squared | November-December 2019

Reflections of Fatimah Tuggar

Fatimah Tuggar explores artisanship and technology, at the Davis Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Hikers stand in Purgatory Chasm, near Worcester, Massachusetts

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

Purgatory—and Beyond

Pleasures to explore in and around Worcester

by Nell Porter-Brown

A color-paper collage used by Edwin Land to develop an influential theory of color vision

Harvard Squared | September-October 2019

Seeing Science

New Harvard exhibit explores “Visual Science: The Art of Research”

by Nell Porter-Brown