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 Space-Age Project for Harvard’s Plant Collection

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

by Jonathan Shaw

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

Picking Up a Hobby

Stan Munro’s toothpick designs are on display at the Fuller Craft Museum.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Cuban Connections

When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902

by John S. Rosenberg

Making Modernity

Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo

by Joseph Koerner

Pound, On the Record

A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Existence as Resistance

Black Chronicles II, an exhibit at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery, calls for a more representative history.

by Jenny Gathright

Curiosities: Animating a New Species at the Peabody Essex Museum

Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests

by Nell Porter-Brown

Corita Kent

A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.

by Jonathan Shaw

Bodies Electric

Harvard Art Museums’ installation and film series by Jesse Aron Green ’02

by Bailey Trela