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
Strings, Sax, and a Dash of Sass
Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.
A Park of One’s Own
The last home and private garden of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of modern landscape architecture
by Nell Porter-Brown
Vita: Francis Parkman
Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893
The Peter Pan Myth, Reinvented
The new musical Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater once again revives the myth of Peter Pan and his creator, J.M. Barrie.
Laughter and Lyrics—Legally
Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.
by Dick Friedman
A Harmonious Revolution
Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.
by Karolina Brook
A Glass Menagerie
The Harvard Museum of Natural History showcases Blaschka glass invertebrates.
Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88
The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” Stirs Controversy at Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.
An Honorand’s Passing
Art historian Seymour Slive, Ar.D. ’14, dies at 93.