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

Lives in Art

Early American artifacts help animate history.

by Nell Porter-Brown

All the World’s a Page

New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harpsichords Extraordinaire

Two keyboards, each with a story to tell

by Craig Lambert

Relational Lens

Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.

by Steve Potter

Cancer Chronicle

Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.

“Chorus of Soloists”

The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation

Rhode Island Blues

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

by Craig Lambert

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Funkin’ It Up

Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.