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.

Pony Plunges

Scrapbooking a woman who rode horses into the sea

by Max J. Krupnick

Worth a Thousand Words

A printmaker plays with the systems and structures of language.

by Samantha Maldonado

The Art of Juxtapositions

Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers at the Carpenter Center

by Nell Porter-Brown

Cuban Connections

When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902

by John S. Rosenberg

Making Modernity

Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo

by Joseph Koerner

Existence as Resistance

Black Chronicles II, an exhibit at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery, calls for a more representative history.

by Jenny Gathright

Corita Kent

A Harvard exhibit situates her work in the Pop art movement.

by Jonathan Shaw

Not Holding Out for a Hero

A comics artist tries his hand at a new story.

by Sophia Nguyen

Curiosities: Animating a New Species at the Peabody Essex Museum

Dutch artist Theo Jansen's otherworldly strandbeests

by Nell Porter-Brown

Bodies Electric

Harvard Art Museums’ installation and film series by Jesse Aron Green ’02

by Bailey Trela

The Art of Healing

This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.

by Zara Zhang