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.
Harvard Football Team Starts Off an Ivy League Favorite
The 152nd Crimson season kicks off Saturday against Stetson.
Harvard renames art film department
Renaming Visual and Environmental Studies to signal a clearer focus on making art and film
Hasty Pudding Announces 2019’s Man and Woman of the Year
Bryce Dallas Howard and Milo Ventimiglia will receive their awards on January 31 and February 8, respectively.
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
Tracy K. Smith Named Harvard Arts Medalist
The U.S. poet laureate will be honored on May 2.
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Bed furnishings in early America
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
Arts join sciences in Harvard Allston
Alongside a huge applied-sciences center, a toehold for art-making