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.

Is the Constitution Broken?

Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.

by Lydialyle Gibson

In “Little Fires Everywhere,” a Custody Battle Ignites the Comfortable Suburbs

Celeste Ng’s nimble second novel traces a cross-cultural drama in her Midwestern hometown. 

by Sophia Nguyen

The sounds of one of Harvard's earliest a cappella groups, the Dunster Dunces

A look (and listen) back at the Dunster Dunces

by Oset Babür

A Life of Adventure and Delight

Akhil Sharma is less interested in ideology in itself than in politics as a backdrop to emotional conflict.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society members forge a lasting bond

Fifty years after they sang their way around the globe as undergraduates, they returned to Cambridge with full hearts and voices. 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Polaroid photographer and "The B-Side" subject Elsa Dorfman, profiled

Elsa Dorfman, BI ’73, looks back on her photography.

by Sophia Nguyen

Songwriter and Semisonic frontman Dan Wilson reclaims his hits on "Re-Covered"

The Grammy Award-winning songwriter Dan Wilson reclaims his catalog.

by Max Suechting

Alison Carey, on directing the American Revolutions cycle at the OSF

Historical plays for a nation “stuck in the middle”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Malka Older’s global sci-fi

Sci-fi meets the political thriller.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Harvard alumnus James Coe is a Hudson Valley painter and bird artist

Landscape and bird artist James Coe reflects the Hudson Valley

by Nell Porter-Brown

Naples Conservatory delights Thomas Kelly

A day at the Naples Conservatory

by Thomas Forrest Kelly