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
Out of Place?
An exhibition asks the meaning of things.
by Christopher Reed
Good Dogs
For centuries, a simple technology permitted people to survive the Arctic.
by Christopher Reed
New Faces
Steven Coit's portraits diversify Harvard's walls, and the 1947 football team defies racism.
Y Is for “Yell”
A sampler from the Harvard University Library's online collection Reading: Harvard Views of Readers, Readership, and Reading History.
by Christopher Reed
William James: Summers and Semesters
A conference and an exhibition at Houghton Library showcase the legacy of the pioneering psychologist and philosopher.
Gut Renovation
Harvard renews an older building to create new labs in Cambridge for stem-cell research.
Urban Utopias
Two Beijing photographers interpret China's breakneck change from Communist revolution to market-based consumerism.
by John S. Rosenberg
Deconstructionism
Gutting the Fogg Art Museum on the way to renovating it
Don’t Eat Amanitas
The Farlow Library's new online exhibits highlight the death cap mushroom and mycological illustration.
by Christopher Reed
In the Footsteps of William James
An unusual symposium at Harvard and at James's summer residence this August will remember the life of the psychologist-philosopher.