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.

Keri Russell Calls ‘The Diplomat’ a Love Letter to Public Servants

A Harvard Kennedy School event looks behind the scenes of the Netflix drama. 

by Tamara Evdokimova

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.

The Harvard founders of literary magazine n+1

Three Harvard Advocate alumni helped found a highbrow literary periodical.

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

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