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.

Statue of a historical figure, against a colorful, stylized letter background.

Harvard Faculty Debate Plan to Cap A Grades

At a lively meeting, faculty members weighed a grade inflation plan that most agreed is imperfect.

by Lydialyle Gibson

In 1871, the Pierian Sodality, 16 strong, posed with their instruments.

A history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra

A new book relates the history of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.

Harvard University Press closes its display room

The Harvard University Press display room closes its doors.

From Mary A. Robinson's scrapbook, now in the Farlow Herbarium

A scrapbook of seaweed

Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard

by Christopher Reed

Once Amy Nathan learned to love piano lessons, she decided to share the joy.

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

Even at the scale of cities, planners can work with the local ecology to create lasting interventions that minimize disruptions to the landscape, such as Khed Sez (shown) and Lavasa, both in India.

Architecture that imitates life

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

by John Gendall

The Levy family in 1928; Jacob holds the cane. Only he and Rivka Levy (far left, flounced dress) survived the Nazis.

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.