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.

rendered portraits of the Alma Mater and John Harvard statues against the White House in the background

Harvard in the Crosshairs |

International Scholars and Students Targeted—Again

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announces fresh investigation into Harvard’s participation in the Exchange Visitor Program.

by Jonathan Shaw

Montage | May-June 2013

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Distinguished couple: Professor Louis Agassiz, ever the scientist, ever the creationist, despite the evidence for Darwinian evolution, and Elizabeth (Cary) Agassiz, who emerges impressively from the last chapter of this new biography

Montage | May-June 2013

A Scientist in Full

The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz

by James Hanken

Alexander Wilson’s colorful craft: a fanciful collection of waterfowl, from Harvard’s archives

Montage | May-June 2013

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Montage | May-June 2013

Soul Beyond the Skin

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

Independence Day, 1942: the first field test of napalm, behind Harvard Business School

Montage | May-June 2013

Like Garlic or Burning Matches

A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah

The writer at work: Soman Chainani in his Brooklyn apartment

Montage | May-June 2013

Princess Not-So-Charming

A fairy tale for today’s world

Compact apartments are proliferating in the United States. Here, artist’s renderings show how the MMNY micro-units, prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and shipped to the East 27th Street building site, will be stacked atop each other like Lego bricks.

Right Now | May-June 2013

Living Large in Tiny Apartments

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

by Laura Levis

This posthumous 2007 portrait, by Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, was commissioned by the Harvard Foundation four decades after Monro left Harvard for Miles College.

Features | May-June 2013

Vita: John Usher Monro

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela

Nancy Sinsabaugh and Salmagundi proprietor Jessen Fitzpatrick display the “ladies top hat.”

Commencement and Reunion Guide | May-June 2013

Hats of Their Own

New top hats for women appear at Commencement

by Nell Porter-Brown

PARK

Commencement and Reunion Guide | May-June 2013

Square Newbies

Something old, something new

by Nell Porter-Brown