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.

Several people are holding a large ribbon for a ceremony outside a modern building.

Harvard and City Leaders Celebrate ERC Opening

Phase A of the Allston project includes a hotel, residences, and a two-acre greenway.

by Laurel M. Shugart

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.

Book cover with stethoscope and dollarsign

Books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Photography by Stephen Sylvester and Yosi A.R-Pozeilov, Digital Imaging and Photography Group, Harvard College Libraries

War and peace in Memorial Hall's stained glass

A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall

by Christopher Reed

At the Merkers salt mines in central Germany, American GIs admire Édouard Manet’s <em>In the Conservatory,</em> one of the thousands of rare works and documents stored there by the Nazi regime late in World War II. Monuments Man George Stout (see next image), a Fogg Museum conservator turned U.S. Army lieutenant, supervised the rescue of 40 tons of art from the site in April 1945.

The Monuments Men: Rescuing art from the Nazis

Harvard’s Monuments Men at war

Jon and Margaret Richardson track down works of the Bloomsbury Group.

Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson specialize in the Bloomsbury Group

Rare-book dealers Jon and Margaret Richardson are fans of the Bloomsbury Group.

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Sportscaster "J.B." Brown has written a guide to living life the right way.

Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"

Sportscaster J.B. Brown writes about his "Role of a Lifetime"

by Melanie E. Long

Editors with their product. Left to right, Keith Gessen, Mark Greif, and Chad Harbach of <i>n+1</i> at their Brooklyn office, with a bookcase full of past issues.

The Harvard founders of literary magazine n+1

Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.

Photograph by David Foster

Weld Boathouse gains Ellen Kennelly sculpture

Ellen Kennelly ’85 has created a new glass sculpture for Weld Boathouse.

by Craig Lambert

Excerpt from Charles Gross’s A Hole in the Head

An excerpt from A Hole in the Head: More Tales in the History of Neuroscience, by Charles Gross ’57