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

Lady Gaga launches the Born This Way Foundation at Harvard

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

Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory version of Ibsen play to become a Demme film

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

Yukio Lippit video on 18th-century Japanese painter Itō Jakuchū

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

Anthony Amore explains art theft

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

Medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guidance on living well

A medieval manuscript illuminates monthly guides to diet and health.

by Christopher Reed

Kahlil Gibran draws Harvard's Charles William Eliot, plus Arnoldia's centennial

The prophet (Gibran) and the president (Eliot), plus Arnoldia turns 100.

Anthony Malkin the Empire State Building's green retrofit for energy efficiency

How Anthony Malkin ’84 engineered the largest “green” retrofit ever

by Jonathan Shaw

Tom Fields-Meyer on "Following Ezra"

Autism tightened the bond between Tom and Ezra Fields-Meyer and led to a moving book.

by Isabel Ruane

Gujarat dam disaster recounted in new book "No One Had a Tongue to Speak"

Utpal Sandesara and Tom Wooten uncover a dam-disaster cover-up.

by Katherine Xue

Harry Lewis explains how baseball explains everything

New book shows how baseball words apply to all of life.