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 drawing of a young boy reading by lamplight.

What of the Humble Pencil?

Review: At the Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibit, drawing takes center stage

by Olivia Farrar

Portrait photograph of a middle-aged Lorenzo Tañada as a Philippine senator

Lorenzo Tañada

Brief life of a Philippine patriot: 1898-1992

by Christopher Capozzola

Black and white photo of a group of Vietnamese children, titled “Schoolchildren Playing Cards”

Photographer Mark Erickson’s street scenes of 1990s Vietnam

Photographer Mark Erickson on the Vietnam he never knew

by Dan Kelly

Dan Chiasson at home in front of a “sometimes delightful, sometimes disturbing” mural by David Teng Olsen, which appears in The Math Campers.

Dan Chiasson's Poetry and Criticism

Poet-critic Dan Chiasson and The Math Campers

by Lydialyle Gibson

Black-and-white photograph of Karl Puchner in 1937 with his wife, young son, and a tiny, barely visible swastika button on his jacket

Review of Martin Puchner’s “The Language of Thieves”

A German American scholar is unsettled by an ancestor’s secret.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Photograph of cornflake chocolate chip marshmallow cookie from the book “Science and Cooking”

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Claude Monet's painting of clouds, fields, and poplars

Museum of Fine Arts winter exhibits

Winter exhibits at the Museum of Fine Arts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Gifts for the arts

Holiday gifts that support the arts

by Nell Porter-Brown

Red graphic which reads At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

At Home with Harvard: Sounds of Music

A selection of our stories on musicians, composers, conductors, music scholars, and more 

Headshot portraits of: Roberto Gonzales, Peggy Koenig, Michelle Rodriguez, Julio Reyes Copello, Sergio Trujillo

Immigrant Stories, in Song

Sociologist Roberto Gonzales’s research is becoming a musical.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A framed drawing titled Accompanied: Two Views of the Sea, 2017-2020, by Marilyn Pappas and Jill Slosburg-Ackerman.

Being With the Other

A Radcliffe exhibition explores a lifetime of artwork and female friendship

by Lydialyle Gibson