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.

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Honors Rose Byrne

The Bridesmaids actress celebrated her 2026 Woman of the Year Award with a roast and a parade.

by Schuyler Velasco , Kate Kaufman

Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten

Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.

by Jennifer Gersten

Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”

A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA 

by Nell Porter-Brown

“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center

Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.

by Brandon J. Dixon

“The Black Clown” by Langston Hughes is set to music

An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes

by Sophia Nguyen

Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights

A graduate’s foray into the “real world” of fringe theater

by Olivia Munk

Erika Bailey coaches voice and speech at the A.R.T.

Coaching voice and speech at the A.R.T.

by Sophia Nguyen

Rage, reborn: profile of guitarist Tom Morello

With his supergroup Prophets of Rage, the musician faces down a president.

by Max Suechting

“Next steps”: profile of Paul Taylor dancer Madelyn Ho

Madelyn Ho pursued two tracks: modern dance, and getting her M.D.

by Samantha Maldonado

Kevin Beasley at ICA/Boston

Sculptures that resonate with what’s not there

by Nell Porter-Brown