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.

Bees and Flowers Are Falling Out of Sync

Scientists are revisiting an old way of thinking about extinction.

by Andrés Muedano

Kay Kenny’s nighttime photographs at the Griffin Museum

Photographer Kay Kenny’s work illuminates the night.

by Nell Porter-Brown

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

Calderwood Courtyard centers Harvard Art Museums

A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard

by John S. Rosenberg

Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian

A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact. 

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Tale of Genji Illustrated

A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited

Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”

…and a possible clue in the stacks

by Diane E. Booton

Bed furnishings in early America

A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.

by Nell Porter-Brown