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 Retains Winthrop Name
Committee undecided on whether owning slaves merits denaming
by Max J. Krupnick
The Art of Juxtapositions
Lorraine O'Grady: Where Margins Become Centers at the Carpenter Center
by Nell Porter-Brown
Life On a Tabletop
Contemporary takes on puppetry in Brookline, Massachusetts
by Nell Porter-Brown
Cuban Connections
When Americans occupied Cuba, 1898-1902
by John S. Rosenberg
Chronicler of Two Americas
Now in his second century, the uncommon Daniel Aaron remains at work.
by Christoph Irmscher
Making Modernity
Max Beckmann’s Self-Portrait in Tuxedo
by Joseph Koerner
“Once Upon a Time” in Translation
A publisher brings world literature to young Anglophones.
by Spencer Lee Lenfield
Pound, On the Record
A Carpenter Center exhibition traces the history of a once-banned poem.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Existence as Resistance
Black Chronicles II, an exhibit at Harvard’s Cooper Gallery, calls for a more representative history.
by Jenny Gathright
A Lover of All Things English
Erin Moore ’98 clarifies Britishisms and Americanisms in That’s Not English.
by Zara Zhang
Off the Shelf
Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more