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.

The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

by Lindsay Mitchell

The paper art of Laurie Krasny Brown

Laurie Krasny Brown crafts colorful works from an “accessible, flexible, beautiful” material.

by Craig Lambert

Philosopher and scientist Robert O. Doyle has a new model of free will

Robert O. Doyle proposes a two-stage, “Jamesian,” model of free will.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard Design School program imagines cities within an ecological context

A new GSD concentration uses an ecological perspective to imagine cities.

Villa I Tatti presents an online exhibition on the Berensons' Harvard years

An online exhibit provides new insights into the art historians’ time at the University.

New undergraduate architectural studies track to be offered this fall

College and Design School team up to develop new track for budding architects.

Mollusks exhibition at Harvard Museum of Natural History is multifaceted

Mollusks of amazing diversity—some deadly—are on display at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

by Christopher Reed

Palindromist Mark Saltveit, Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner, and a sleuthing architect

A World Palindrome Champion, a sleuthing architect, and Yo-Yo Ma on Leon Kirchner

Restaurant review of Casa B in Union Square, Somerville

Review of Casa B restaurant in Union Square, Somerville

by Nell Porter-Brown

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Video game designer Scott Duquette of 38 Studios

Video-game designer Scott Duquette ’05, a new kind of urban planner

by Dan Barbarisi