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

Relational Lens

Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.

by Steve Potter

Nepal in Pictures

Nepalese history revealed in photographs

by Nell Porter-Brown

Rarely Seen Rothkos Highlight Harvard Art Museums’ Reopening

“Restored” by technology, Harvard Murals anchor inaugural exhibition.

by Francesca Annic...

The Art of the Quilt

Fabric art that rises from mattresses to museum walls

Toward Cultural Citizenship

New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”

by Jonathan Shaw

Design in Layers

Paper artist Robert Pillsbury ’61 makes his work from stacked cut sheets of paper.

Styled Blue Yonder

Jessica Ambats '95 makes amazing photographs of airplanes from the air.

by Craig Lambert

The Lit City

Sunlight and shadow star in Derek Reist’s urban landscapes.

by Steve Potter

The Sorcery of Seedpods

Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty

by Craig Lambert

Sculpture That Breathes

Bronze and granite come alive for Murray Dewart.

by Craig Lambert