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.
A Space-Age Project for Harvard’s Plant Collection
Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.
by Jonathan Shaw
How the Lines Get Bent
Curator Garrett Dash Nelson ’09 on the Boston Public Library’s exhibition of “persuasive cartography”
by Matteo Wong
Transforming Portraiture and the World
Alumnus-commissioned paintings of global luminaries are now a landmark gift to the National Portrait Gallery.
by Julia Ostmann
An Amazon Artist
Botanical bounty at Dumbarton Oaks
by John S. Rosenberg
At Home with Harvard: Night at the Museum
Our favorite stories about Harvard’s rich museums and collections
A Mind of One’s Own
Delving into the world of Emily Dickinson
by Nell Porter-Brown
Danish Realism, and the Reality of the Flesh
Images that help unveil the truth of what we can see
by Nell Porter-Brown
Boston in Motion
An exhibition maps the making of a metropolis.
by Drew Pendergrass
A Sweeping Exhibit Spans 250 Years of Japanese Art
Paintings from the Edo period convey “a powerful sense of there-ness.”
by Lydialyle Gibson
“Cut Missal Up…”
Consequences of book-breaking
by Diane E. Booton
The Rittase Touch
What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
by Drew Pendergrass