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.
Bringing Korean Stories to Life
Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.
Claire Chase, flutist and Harvard professor, profiled by Lucy Caplan
How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department
by Lucy Caplan
Director Agnès Varda visits Harvard for the Norton Lectures on Cinema
Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.
"I want one more shot!": profile of TV writer Nell Scovell
TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.
Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday
A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.
Frederick Wiseman gives Harvard's first Norton Lecture on Cinema
Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is the first filmmaker to deliver a Norton Lecture.
Hope and despair, harmony and discord: Jonathan Bailey Holland, profiled
Composer Jonathan Bailey Holland on finding his musical voice
Sketch artist: profile of SNL veteran Colin Jost
Comedian Colin Jost, from Shouts and Murmurs to Saturday Night Live
by Oset Babür
Nigerian Women Speak Out
HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.
Harvard classicist Richard Thomas on Bob Dylan
In a new book, classicist Richard Thomas explores Bob Dylan’s literary ties to ancient Greece and Rome.
Composer Ashley Fure unleashes her visceral opera “The Force of Things”
Composer Ashley Fure wants people to listen to noise.