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.
The Harvard Arts Medalist wants his smash-hit Cats revival to reach “as many young queer people” as possible.
Alexander Gassel retrospective at the Museum of Russian Icons
A blend of Russian Orthodox iconography and mythical motifs
Arabic translator Marilyn Booth
Marilyn Booth translates Arabic literature for Anglophone readers.
Novelist Maggie Shipstead and “Great Circle”
Maggie Shipstead’s time-spanning, globe-circling new novel
by Dan Kelly
Dr. Jeffries balloons across the Channel
Two explorers strip to stay aloft.
by Jacob Sweet
Baseball-jersey fashion
The Worcester Art Museum spotlights baseball garb.
Musician and professor Braxton Shelley
A gospel scholar shapes music theory.
by Jacob Sweet
al-Hariri, a master storyteller
Brief life of a master storyteller
Singer, songwriter, harmonica player Scott Albert Johnson
Scott Albert Johnson finds his path.
by Jacob Sweet
Bringing the Stars to Light
Alumni scientist-filmmakers bring the Harvard Computers’ story to the screen.
An intellectual history of the Cold War era
In a new book, Louis Menand probes the cultural currents of postwar America.