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.

by Schuyler Velasco

Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton

Bed furnishings in early America

A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA

“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA

by Nell Porter-Brown

A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine

Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Arts join sciences in Harvard Allston

Alongside a huge applied-sciences center, a toehold for art-making

Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies

Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Tale of Genji Illustrated

A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited

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

Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed

A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.

by Sophia Nguyen