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.
Is the Constitution Broken?
Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.
Pardis Sabeti
For this systems biologist, the interaction of science and music is multiplicative.
Chasing Bogeys
A novel book on golf
Song for Hard Times
The classic folksong “One Meat Ball” got its start at Harvard.
Warrior Artists
Lakota drawings inspire a dramatic exhibition.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections
Ancestral Influences
View images of Phillip Charette's masks alongside masks from the Smithsonian Institution holdings that inspired him.
Arts Administration in Challenging Times
Michael M. Kaiser, known for steering the Kennedy Center and other troubled arts organizations back to health, shares his secrets with a Harvard audience.
Laughing at Slavery
In Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, Glenda Carpio describes how slavery has provided a background and a source of raw material for African-American humor.
The Alcotts, Père and Fille
John Matteson, who left the law to pursue literature, won a Pulitzer Prize for Eden’s Outcasts, his double biography of Bronson and Louisa May Alcott.
From Literature to the Lab
In this excerpt from his new book, The Art and Politics of Science, Nobel laureate Harold Varmus reflects on his switch from graduate work in English to medical school.