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.

What of the Humble Pencil?

Review: At the Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibit, drawing takes center stage

by Olivia Farrar

Harvard Art Museums Exhibition on Prince Shōtoku Icon

A Harvard Art Museums exhibit reunites a thirteenth-century Japanese icon with artifacts it once held.

by Nina Pasquini

Excerpt from Suzanne Preston Blier, “Picasso’s ‘Demoiselles’”

A Harvard scholar presents the “untold origins of a modern masterpiece.”

Kay Kenny’s nighttime photographs at the Griffin Museum

Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Graphic novelist Amy Chu

Graphic novelist Amy Chu

by S.I. Rosenbaum

Clay—Modeling African Design exhibit

Pliable arts from across the continent

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Japan on Paper, Harvard Art Museums

Harvard’s enticing Japanese woodblock prints

by Nell Porter-Brown

Allston ArtLab Prepares to Open

An “interdisciplinary laboratory devoted to creativity, innovation, collaboration, and connection” 

by Jonathan Shaw , Marina N. Bolotnikova

Excerpt from “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration”

Unpacking “what art does to us”

ArtWeek 2019

ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown