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.
Cambridge Once Fought Harvard’s DNA Research. Now There’s a Play About It.
A theatrical reenactment explores a 1976 clash between science and democracy.
The presidency will be televised: "Jackie" and the paradox of American royalty
The screenplay, by Today Show producer Noah Oppenheim ’00, traces how the Camelot myth was made.
The Art of Protest
“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”
Writers Dick Friedman, Spencer Lenfield, and illustrator Brad Yeo honored
Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist
Doris Salcedo gives form to tragedy at Harvard's "The Materiality of Mourning"
A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.
“Presenting Jane," and a youthful summer for the New York School
A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.
"I once knew a girl": Carrie Mae Weems at Harvard's Cooper Gallery
Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery
Anna Deavere Smith welcomes Harvard to a "lecture-performance" on hospitality
In her “lecture-performance,” playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith practiced and preached “Radical Hospitality.”
Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
D.J. and experimental composer Jace Clayton discusses his new book, Uproot.
In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.