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 Art of Juxtapositions
Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers at the Carpenter Center
by Nell Porter-Brown
Life On a Tabletop
Contemporary takes on puppetry in Brookline, Massachusetts
by Nell Porter-Brown
Cuban Connections
When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902
by John S. Rosenberg
Chronicler of Two Americas
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
by Christoph Irmscher
Making Modernity
Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
by Joseph Koerner
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Pound, On the Record
A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Existence as Resistance
Black Chronicles II, an exhibit at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery, calls for a more representative history.
by Jenny Gathright
A Lover of All Things English
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
by Zara Zhang
Not Holding Out for a Hero
A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.
by Sophia Nguyen