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 woman and a horse jump off a large platform into water

Treasure | July-August 2025

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

<i>Untitled</i> (Night View of Trees and Streetlamp, Burgkühnauer Allee, Dessau), 1928

John Harvard's Journal | March-April 2012

Lyonel Feininger, Photographer

Displaying a fascinating body of work

Anthony Amore at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with empty frames that held venerable paintings before the 1990 theft

Montage | March-April 2012

Hot Canvases

A new book shatters myths about art theft.

by David Menconi

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Inside an Art Heist

A slide show with facts about the works stolen from the Gardner museum in 1990.

Yechon, Republic of Korea, 1960s. David R. McCann says, “I remember the expressions of the kids in Korea were always full of life. One interesting thing about these kids I noticed was the way they naturally split up according to gender.”

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Images from Korea

A faculty photography exhibit will be on display through March 15.

Roadside Stand, vicinity of Birmingham, Alabama, 1936

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Walker Evans Works on Display in Mather House

Prints from the twentieth-century photographer will be shown through the spring.

The red fist from “The 1969 Protest T-shirt” dispatch, originally designed by Harvey Hacker ’63, filled a “graphic gap” for students protesting the “Bust,” a violent eviction of occupying students from University Hall by police officers and state troopers on April 10, 1969.

University News |

Design Dispatches: Meshing Past, Present, and Future

A Graduate School of Design exhibition celebrates 75 years of rich history.

A scene from Meredith James’s video <i>Day Shift </i>, starring James herself

Montage | November-December 2011

Disruptive Creations

Meredith James '04 creates surrealist videos and sculptures that challenge perceptions.

by Jesse Kornbluth

The <i>Invention of Book Printing</i> comes from <i>Nova Reperta</i> (New inventions and discoveries of modern times), by Stradanus (Jan van der Straet), the first such illustrated compendium of postclassical innovations (ca. 1599- 1603). The ability to print many copies of such works revolutionized communication of ideas in the sixteenth century.

Features | November-December 2011

Spheres of Knowledge

An exhibition at the Sackler reveals the connections among Renaissance art, invention, and the evolution of science.

by Jennifer Carling , Jonathan Shaw

Georg Brentel the Younger, from <i>Pamphlet describing the construction and function of a conical sundial,</i> Lauingen: Jacob Winter, 1615. Pamphlet with engravings and woodcuts.

Faculty & Research |

Sundials in Early Modern Europe

Photographs of early modern printed-paper sundials

Jan Sadeler I, after Maarten de Vos,<i> Rhetoric,</i> from the series <i>The Seven Liberal Arts,</i> after 1575. Engraving

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The Seven Liberal Arts

Jan Sadeler’s engravings of The Seven Liberal Arts