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.
Cambridge Once Fought Harvard’s DNA Research. Now There’s a Play About It.
A theatrical reenactment explores a 1976 clash between science and democracy.
Helping young musicians succeed
Amy Nathan ’67 aims to help kids over musical rough patches with The Young Musician’s Survival Guide.
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
New York Film Festival program director Richard Peña
Richard Peña ’75 is program director of the New York Film Festival.
Books with Harvard connections
Recent books with Harvard connections
Review of "Half the Sky," on the oppression of women
A review of Half the Sky, by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
by Rohini Pande
Biographical sketch of French artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
A brief profile of an enterprising French artist
A New History of the Harvard Extension School
A new history by its dean, Michael Shinagel, documents the school's emphasis on accessibility and continuing education.
Federico Cortese is the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra
Meet the new conductor of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra.