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 Unveils American Service Fellowship
Will fund degrees for 50 public servants and military veterans
by Max J. Krupnick
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Harvard Forest Dioramas
Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature
by Nancy Walecki
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
by Nell Porter-Brown
Reframing American Art
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
by Nell Porter-Brown
Making Art behind Bars
Formerly imprisoned artists discuss practice, community, and mass incarceration.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Adrian Piper to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.
by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead
American Stories, in Wood
Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art
by Nell Porter-Brown
Medieval Disinformation?
A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.
by Nell Porter-Brown
Attuned to Pianos
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
by Lydialyle Gibson