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.

12,000 Harvard Alumni File Amicus Brief in Funding Freeze Lawsuit

Alumni from every Harvard school and class since 1950 rally behind the University 

by Nina Pasquini

William Kentridge: “In Praise of Shadows”

The first of the 2012 Norton Lectures

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Losing Control: A Scientific Love Story

A new film by Valerie Weiss, Ph.D. ’01, set at Harvard

Two-Term President, Two-Time Poet Laureate

Derek Bok and Kay Ryan featured at the 2012 Phi Beta Kappa exercises

National Book Critics Circle Honors Three

Harvard affiliates Jasanoff, Pearlman, Silvers recognized

The Era of Inequality

Excerpt from The Great Divergence by Timothy Noah ’80

Harvard Goes Gaga

A star-studded panel celebrates the launch of the Born This Way Foundation.

Wallace Shawn and André Gregory: Together Again

Their version of Ibsen's The Master Builder will become a film.

An Enchanted “Colorful Realm”

In a video interview, Yukio Lippit explains the beauty of Japanese paintings displayed in the Cherry Blossom Festival centennial exhibit.

Stealing Rembrandts Does Not Pay

A video interview with Anthony Amore, director of security at the museum where the largest heist in history took place

Orderly Living

A medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guides to diet and health.

by Christopher Reed