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

Beauty from Disarray

From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”

by Violet Baron

Brain Food

In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.

by Samantha Maldonado

Planting Seeds of Culture

Native American women are the focus of photographer Matika Wilbur’s Radcliffe exhibit. 

by Laura Levis

Seeing Spring

Artist Anna Agoston grows into her medium with her photographic studies of plants.

by Sophia Nguyen

"Art Is a Dark Mirror"

Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.

by Olivia Schwob

Ethan Lasser

A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us

by Lydialyle Gibson

Martha Tedeschi to Lead Harvard Art Museums

Hailing from the Art Institute of Chicago, Tedeschi will assume the role next July. 

by Sophia Nguyen

Not Made for Walkin'

Upward of 150 haute couture and historic shoes are on display in Manchester, N.H.

by Nell Porter-Brown

At the Harvard Art Museums, Indigenous Australian Art and Thought on Display

The Harvard Art Museums' new exhibition of Australian art aims to make indigenous lives “visible.”

by Sophia Nguyen

In "Art of Jazz," A Multivocal Exhibit

A “call and response” between the Harvard Art Museums and the Cooper Gallery

by Sophia Nguyen