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 Faculty Debate Plan to Cap A Grades

At a lively meeting, faculty members weighed a grade inflation plan that most agreed is imperfect.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Films by a Japanese Master

The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”

by Nell Porter-Brown

The 2023 Pulitzer Prizes

Carl Phillips and Hua Hsu honored in poetry and memoir

by Lydialyle Gibson

The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press

The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.

by Craig Lambert

Comedy with a Conscience

Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era

by Craig Lambert

Finding the Movie

Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Stories of a Not-So-Distant War

Novelist V.V. Ganeshananthan on writing diasporic fiction

by Bailey Trela

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

by Nancy Walecki

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter-Brown

Making Art behind Bars

Formerly imprisoned artists discuss practice, community, and mass incarceration.

by Lydialyle Gibson