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 football player in red attempts to block a pass from a Penn player in white during a game.

Harvard Football: Harvard 45, Penn 43

An epic finish ensures another Ivy title. Next up: Yale. And after?

by Dick Friedman

McBean’s favorite model—and muse—was Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), here photographed for a 1951 production of George Bernard Shaw’s <i>Caesar and Cleopatra.</i>

A new book collects theater photographs by Angus McBean

Fredric Wilson’s book The Theatrical World of Angus McBean collects British midcentury theater images.

by Craig Lambert

For Molière’s <i>The Misanthrope</i> at Berkshire Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, Sprague’s sketch (shown) became a model later built as the play’s set.

Carl Sprague designs film and theater sets

Carl Sprague ’84 designs sets for local theater companies and Hollywood movies.

by Craig Lambert

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Review of Maurice Charney's “Wrinkled Deep in Time”

Adam Kirsch review Maurice Charney’s Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare.

by Adam Kirsch

A reserved Alexis de Tocqueville, portrayed when he was in his thirties—some years after his momentous American travels.

An excerpt from "Tocqueville's Discovery of America," by Leo Damrosch

An excerpt from Tocqueville's Discovery of America, by Leo Damrosch

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Johnny Green, with his trademark white carnation and some of his musical works

American composer Johnny Green

Brief life of a conflicted musician: 1908-1989

by Sol Hurwitz

Nineteenth-century dancing lessons

A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.

by Christopher Reed

A production still from <i>Children of Invention,</i> with Crystal Chiu as Tina and Michael Chen as Raymond

The Brattle Theatre shows Mynette Louie's film Children of Invention

Boston-area readers can catch the film in Harvard Square starting this weekend. Producer Mynette Louie ’97 will appear at some screenings.

Video clips from Children of Invention, produced by Mynette Louie

Despite winning multiple prizes, the film—produced by Mynette Louie ’97—has struggled to find an audience or turn a profit in an uncertain time for indie film.