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 portrait of Harvard faculty member Willy Shih

Five Questions with Willy Shih

A Harvard Business School professor unpacks the economics of semiconductors.

by Olivia Farrar

From Mary A. Robinson's scrapbook, now in the Farlow Herbarium

A scrapbook of seaweed

Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard

by Christopher Reed

Once Amy Nathan learned to love piano lessons, she decided to share the joy.

Helping young musicians succeed

Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.

by Krysten A. Keches

Even at the scale of cities, planners can work with the local ecology to create lasting interventions that minimize disruptions to the landscape, such as Khed Sez (shown) and Lavasa, both in India.

Architecture that imitates life

Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.

by John Gendall

The Levy family in 1928; Jacob holds the cane. Only he and Rivka Levy (far left, flounced dress) survived the Nazis.

An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"

Socialism as family inconvenience

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Richard Peña at Lincoln Center, with a New York Film Festival banner at right, behind him

New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña

Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.

by Craig Lambert

From <i>On the Loose in Boston: A Find-the-Animals Book,</i> by Sage Stossel

Books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Review of "Half the Sky," on the oppression of women

A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn

by Rohini Pande

Biographical sketch of French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

A brief profile of an enterprising French artist

by Laura Auricchio

Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor

Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.