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 Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
“Beyond Lobsters and Lighthouses”
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Looking at the Cosmos through a Feminine Lens
Anna Von Mertens depicts the findings of female astronomers using quilts and drawings.
by Oset Babür
Shaina Taub Shares Suffragists in Song
A seventy-fifth Schlesinger Library anniversary celebration
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Juggler’s Tale
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
by Sophia Nguyen
Creative Gifts
Boston’s open studios, holiday craft fairs, and more
by Nell Porter-Brown
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
Darkness Visible
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
by Jennifer Gersten
Medicine Minus Mythmaking
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Coming Apart Together
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Weight of Scale
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.