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.
Is the Constitution Broken?
Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.
New Yorker writer John McPhee's listener, Gordon Gund '61
A Paris Review article describes how renowned author John McPhee reads his drafts to his friend Gordon Gund ’61.
Articles on the urban plantscape; a prestigious math award; Commencement humor
Our news roundup includes articles on landscape architecture professor Peter del Tredici and mathematics professor John Tate, and Commencement humor from The Onion.
Denise Scott Brown speaks at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
Architect Denise Scott Brown recommends hitchhiking and the brave results that can emerge from tackling hard problems.
Panic in the Year Zero: A Poem by D.A. Powell
A poem by D.A. Powell, from the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises. [audio]
2010 Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises with Natalie Zemon Davis and D.A. Powell
Historian Natalie Zemon Davis speaks on "The Possibilities of Friendship." Also featuring poet D.A. Powell with a vivid new work. [video/audio]
Borowitz on Need to Know TV show
Humorist Andy Borowitz ’80 will do a comedy segment each week on a new PBS news program, Need to Know.
Highbrow Lingerie
Fashion designer Laura Mehlinger draws on inspirations ranging from Vladimer Nabokow to Prince.
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s work fuses ancient and modern art
Sculptor James Dinerstein’s works in concrete and bronze fuse ancient forms with modern abstraction.
by Paul Gleason
Skyscrapers as symbols
In Tall Building: Imagining the Skyscraper, Scott Johnson explores the semiotics of these urban giants.
David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
David Warsh reviews Robert J. Samuelson's The Great Inflation and Its Aftermath
by David Warsh