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.
Stories of a Not-So-Distant War
Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction
by Bailey Trela
The Harvard Forest Dioramas
Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature
Fall River: Phoenix Rising?
“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”
Reframing American Art
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Making Art behind Bars
Formerly imprisoned artists discuss practice, community, and mass incarceration.
Adrian Piper to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.
American Stories, in Wood
Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art
Medieval Disinformation?
A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.
Attuned to Pianos
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession