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.

Trump Administration Appeals Order Restoring $2.7 Billion in Funding to Harvard

The appeal, which had been expected, came two days before the deadline to file.

by Jonathan Shaw

Harvard’s Peabody Museum displays artfully decorated weapons in its collection

A new exhibit at Harvard’s Peabody Museum highlights decorative weaponry through the ages.

The Museum of Russian Icons offers art, education, and performances

Gilded icons, stark portraits, and a warm tea room

by Nell Porter-Brown

Gospel choir performs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December

Events on and off campus during November and December

Harvard's Art Museums reopen in Renzo Piano building designed for teaching

Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.

James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT

James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing

History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative

Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.

by Jonathan Shaw

Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.

Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.

by Craig Lambert

Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis