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

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

James Baldwin’s America, in Photos

A fresh look at the writer’s work and influences

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

“Shifting Sands”: photos from the Peabody Museum

Family snapshots of living off the land, in the Kalahari

by Sophia Nguyen

Lives Glimpsed through Passports

Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”

by Brandon J. Dixon

A printer's archive and Nam June Paik's video art, at the Harvard Art Museums

Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.

by Sophia Nguyen

Soyoung Lee named chief curator at the Harvard Art Museums

Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.

by Marina N. Bolotnikova

Radcliffe gymsuits, pre-spandex

Lest young ladies’ “tides” be deranged

by Sophia Nguyen

Heritage Museums & Gardens, in Sandwich, Massachusetts

Cape Cod’s Heritage Museums & Gardens

by Nell Porter-Brown