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.
These Harvard Mountaineers Braved Denali’s Wall of Ice
John Graham’s Denali Diary documents a dangerous and historic climb.
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Dumbarton Oaks exhibit “Juggling the Middle Ages” is previewed
A Dumbarton Oaks exhibition connects “an enchanted past” to the human condition.
Millicent Todd Bingham
Brief life of an unlikely Dickinson scholar
by Julie Dobrow
Robert Coles and Atul Gawande on William Carlos Williams
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Shane McCrae: the poet and his work
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Philip Johnson biography by Mark Lamster reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.
Excerpt from “Not Quite Not White” by Sharmila Sen
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.