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.

The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

by Lindsay Mitchell

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

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

The Green-Pea Memo

Poking fun “at the academic-bureaucratic mentality of university life”

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Quotation Q & A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Gutenberg 2.0: What future for libraries?

Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change.

by Jonathan Shaw

Tasmanian crocoite at the Harvard Museum of Natural History

What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do

by Christopher Reed

From Orchids to Octopi dramatizes evolution and paleontologist Farish Jenkins

From Orchids to Octopi draws on the work of many Harvardians and puts paleontologist Farish Jenkins on stage.

Libraries in the digital era: links to Harvard collections and a humorous video

Highlights from the digital collections of the Harvard libraries, and video humor