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.
Pony Plunges
Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea
by Max J. Krupnick
VES’s Valedictory
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
by John S. Rosenberg
“Here and Then Gone”
Bess Wohl writes plays from an actor’s perspective.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Once Again, with Feeling
A cellist and conservatory teacher who has never stopped learning
by Nell Porter-Brown
“Beyond Lobsters and Lighthouses”
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
by Lydialyle Gibson
Creative Gifts
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
by Nell Porter-Brown
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
by Jennifer Gersten
Twyla Tharp: “Minimalism and Me”
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
by Nell Porter-Brown
Photography in Baldwin’s Era
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
by Brandon J. Dixon
“Little Shards of Dissonance”
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
by Sophia Nguyen