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.
Anthropologist Heather Paxson studies American artisanal cheese
Heather Paxson explores the anthropology of American artisanal cheese.
Former financier Norb Vonnegut’s investment-world thriller
Top Producer, by Norb Vonnegut ’80, is a thriller set on Wall Street. Listen to excerpts from an interview with its stockbroker author.
Sassetta's Borgo San Sepolcro altarpiece, reconstructed
Sixty paintings once adorned the altarpiece of a Franciscan church in the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro. View illustrations from the modern-day reconstruction.
Photo history of Harvard Square
A new book of photographs tells Harvard Square’s history since the 1950s. Test your own Square knowledge for a chance to win a copy of the book.
Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece
Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.
David Wax’s band plays Mexican folk music.
David Wax’s trio La Tuza performs Mexican son music.
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.
Excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen
An excerpt from Green Metropolis, by David Owen ’78