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 Divinity School Sets New Priorities

After two years of turmoil, Dean Marla Frederick describes a more pluralistic future for the institution’s culture and curriculum.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Harvard University Press closes its display room

The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.

A scrapbook of seaweed

Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard

by Christopher Reed

Helping young musicians succeed

Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.

by Krysten A. Keches

Architecture that imitates life

Architects are beginning to employ biomimicry, studying nature as a model for building design.

by John Gendall

An excerpt from "Jacob’s Cane"

Socialism as family inconvenience

Quotation Q and A

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Amelia Lester named New Yorker managing editor

Amelia Lester ’05 is a former Ledecky Undergraduate Fellow at Harvard Magazine.

The Boston Globe reviews "The Windmill Movie"

The Boston Globe reviews The Windmill Movie, a film about Richard Rogers ’67, edited and directed by his former filmmaking student, Alexander Olch ’99.

The Last of His Kind: A new biography of mountaineer and photographer H. Bradfor

The life of mountaineer, pioneering aerial photographer, and Museum of Science leader H. Bradford Washburn, newly chronicled by fellow mountaineer David Roberts ’65.

David McCann wants sijo, an ancient form of Korean poetry, to catch on.

Professor David McCann wants an ancient form of Korean poetry to catch on the way haiku has.