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 Kennedy School Taubman Center

University News |

Harvard Kennedy School Unveils American Service Fellowship

Will fund degrees for 50 public servants and military veterans

by Max J. Krupnick

Kara Walker's most recent work of public art, known as <i>A Subtlety,</i> made news months after its closing, when she produced a video, <i>An Audience,</i> compiling visitor reactions to the work in its final hours.

Arts & Culture |

Kara Walker “Sweet Talks” Harvard

At the Radcliffe Institute, the artist unraveled some of the mysteries of her installation, A Subtlety.

by Sophia Nguyen

Arts & Culture |

A Conversation with Maureen McLane ’89

The poet and critic talks about her teaching, her writing, and her newest book, This Blue, a finalist for the National Book Award.

by Sophia Nguyen

Members of the Harvard community and area residents celebrated the official opening of the Harvard Art Museums on November 16.

Museums & Collections |

An Art Laboratory for the Twenty-first Century

The renovated Harvard Art Museums open

Professor Ali Malkawi, the founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities, welcomes participants to the challenge conference.

Architecture & Design |

The Challenges of Greener Cities

Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities hosts inaugural challenge conference.

The renovated and expanded Harvard Art Museums have entrances on both Quincy and Prescott Streets. The staff of the Museums hopes that casual passersby will filter through the building and gather in its central courtyard.

Museums & Collections |

“Beauty Will Save the World”

Welcoming the University community through a series of special talks and celebrations, the Harvard Art Museums re-introduce themselves.

This model city by Bodys Isek Kingelez anchors <i>Luminós/C/ity.Ordinary Joy: From the Pigozzi Contemporary African Art Collection</i>.

Visual Arts |

Cooper Gallery Lights Up Mount Auburn Street

At the Hutchins Center, a new gallery opens with an exhibit exploring life in African cities.

Museums & Collections |

Ready for a Reopening

Additional images of the Harvard Art Museums galleries

Martin Puchner

Harvard College |

An Arts Advance

Harvard College plans a theater, dance, and media concentration.

This gallery's collection conveys the breadth of nineteenth-century collectors’ international interests, by grouping together works by Sargent, Munch, and Degas, among others.

Museums & Collections |

A New Place, a New Paradigm

Panelists bring their perspective to the long-awaited reopening of the Harvard Art Museums.

Photographs of abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe and her son Samuel, who died at 18 months

Humanities & Arts |

The Civil War’s Personal Histories

A Schlesinger Library exhibit reveals the domestic side of the war.