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 bronze sculpture of intertwined hands in a park, with a discussion panel in the foreground.

Is the Constitution Broken?

Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

by Craig Lambert

Mariana Quinn

Tuning Pianos with Mariana Quinn

A former geologist follows her piano-tuner father’s footsteps.

by Nancy Walecki

Green and Colorado River junction

An Astronomer's Desert Photography

Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes

by Nancy Walecki

A portrait phot of Emily Carmichael

Beasts of the Big Screen

Jurassic World Dominion screenwriter Emily Carmichael on scripting Hollywood sci-fi epics

by Nicolas Rapold

Book cover for Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes

Erin Kelly and Salamishah Tillet honored for “searing” and “stylish” writing in biography and criticism

by Lydialyle Gibson

The seven 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars

Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.

by Jacob Sweet

Film poster for DASH, showing the driver in front of his car on Hollywood Boulevard

One Shot at Hollywood

Actor and producer Alex Molina on filming a feature-length thriller in a single take

by Lydialyle Gibson

An Acrobat Takes Flight

Anna Soltys Morse and the art of hand-to-hand flying

by Lydialyle Gibson

As a singer and songwriter, Claudia García performs mariachi-inspired Latin fusion music.

Mexican Soul

How Claudia García got “mariachi fever”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Blanche Calloway spreading her arms during a performance

Blanche Calloway, Cab’s Enterprising Older Sister

The success and struggles of a pioneering musician

by Jacob Sweet