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.

Boston Board Approves Harvard’s Enterprise Research Campus Framework

City planners adopt principles to guide future development of the commercial innovation district in Allston.

by Jonathan Shaw

Grammy-winning bluegrass musicians to perform at Harvard

The Barker Center hosts a February 6 symposium on bluegrass music, with an evening performance by Grammy-winning artists.

Fiction by E.O. Wilson, David Cutler on healthcare, and more

Our roundup also includes a New Yorker profile of U.S. education secretary Arne Duncan and a review of the work of architect Jeanne Gang, both Harvard graduates.

Derrick Ashong hosts a new show on Oprah Radio

Derrick Ashong ’97 hosts a new show on Oprah Radio.

Monuments Men map

See the routes four Harvard-affiliated Monuments Men followed as they traveled through Europe rescuing looted art from the Nazis.

Reviews of "The Checklist Manifesto" by Atul Gawande

The Checklist Manifesto explores checklists as a tool for preventing error in medicine, aviation, and elsewhere.

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

David Warsh reviews "This Time Is Different" by Carmen Reinhart & Kenneth Rogoff

David Warsh reviews This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff.

by David Warsh

Nanoscience in photographs

In words and images, George M. Whitesides and Felice. C. Frankel explicate tools, concepts, and applications in nanoscience.

Books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

War and peace in Memorial Hall's stained glass

A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall

by Christopher Reed