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.

The True Cost of Grade Inflation at Harvard

How an abundance of A’s created “the most stressed-out world of all.”

by Lindsay Mitchell

1968 Harvard-Yale game documentary on DVD

A new DVD and book capture the legendary 1968 Harvard-Yale game.

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Diane Paulus directs American Repertory Theater

Diane Paulus, the new artistic director of the American Repertory Theater, has an ambitious populist vision.

by Craig Lambert

Excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen

An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Frederick Seidel’s new poetry collection reviewed

Adam Kirsch reviews Poems 1959-2009 by Frederick Seidel ’57

by Adam Kirsch

Fred Ho Harvard Arts Medal

Recognizing a saxophonist and self-described "revolutionary artist"

Harvard alumnus R.J. Cutler's new movie explores Anna Wintour's Vogue

A new documentary by R. J. Cutler '83 takes viewers behind the glamour of a fashion powerhouse.

New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña

Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.

by Craig Lambert

Books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections