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
Learning from Toys
The National Black Doll Museum
by Nell Porter-Brown
The Pleasure of Noticing
Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.
by Sophia Nguyen
Comedy Compulsion
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
by Sophia Nguyen
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.
by Sophia Nguyen
“Inventur” Revisits Postwar Germany
Taking stock of an overlooked cohort of artists: those who, during World War II, stayed in Germany—and survived
by Sophia Nguyen
Can Science Justify Itself?
Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.
by Ada Palmer
Makeda Best
Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator
by Sophia Nguyen
Time in Space
Renée Green’s exhibition “Within Living Memory” closes her Harvard residency.
by Lily Scherlis
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
“Gorey’s World”
Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum
by Nell Porter-Brown