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.

A woman gazes at large decorative letters with her reflection and two stylized faces beside them.

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

<i>Nandina and Rooster</i> (c. 1761–1765)

Cherry Blossom Festival centennial marked with exhibit of Japanese paintings

Masterworks of Japanese painting on display for the Cherry Blossom Festival's centennial

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Fanny Bullock Workman

Fanny Bullock Workman, feisty mountaineer

Brief life of a feisty mountaineer: 1859-1925

<i>Untitled</i> (Night View of Trees and Streetlamp, Burgkühnauer Allee, Dessau), 1928

Lyonel Feininger's photography displayed at Harvard

Displaying a fascinating body of work

Joseph B. Martin

Joseph Martin, former Harvard Medical School dean, writes a memoir

Excerpt from Harvard Medical School Dean Joseph Martin's memoir

The junior senator from Minnesota, in his Capitol Hill office

Al Franken, satirist and statesman, profiled

The satirist and comedian Al Franken has a new role: statesman.

by Jesse Kornbluth

Minimalist décor that is both restful and dynamic allows the food to shine.

Audubon Circle restaurant in Boston: terrific American food in stylish environs

Boston’s Audubon Circle offers terrific food in relaxed environs.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Anthony Amore at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, with empty frames that held venerable paintings before the 1990 theft

Art Security Expert Anthony Amore on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Heist

A new book shatters myths about art theft.

by David Menconi

The “Enemy Alien Menace” looms over lower Manhattan: The <i>New York Herald,</i> March 28, 1918; cartoon by W.A. Rogers

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

The cover image reproduces a sacred scene in a sacred landscape: “Radha and Krishna Walk in a Flowering Grove,” Kota Master, 18th century

Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography India

Diana Eck on Hindus' sacred geography

The only known photograph of the Rufus Buck gang, taken in the summer of 1895 in Indian Territory. Buck is in the middle.

Leonce Gaiter's Western novel describes violence in 1890s Indian Territory

A gritty Western depicts a brief, violent crusade.

by Craig Lambert