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.
"Working Sisters"
Pan Tianshu reviews Leslie Chang's new book Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
by Pan Tianshu
Outlining a New Vision for the Arts
The University-wide task force's report recommends new degree programs, courses, and spaces for art production.
Degas, Renoir, and More on Display at Dumbarton Oaks
A collection of modern French paintings is being exhibited for the first time at this Harvard-owned museum in Washington, D.C.
Day-After Thoughts: "Words Have Made a Comeback"
Reflections from Humanities Center scholar-in-residence Kiku Adatto on the roles of images and rhetoric in the 2008 campaign and its media coverage
Photos in Thread
Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.
Carpenter Center's Craftsman
A new book, Le Corbusier Le Grand, pulls together the career of Le Corbusier, with material on Harvard’s Carpenter Center.
Art as Chattel
James Cuno reviews Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures, by Cynthia Saltzman
Chapter & Verse
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words
Blindspot: A Novel
History professor Jill Lepore is the coauthor, with Jane Kamensky, of the historical novel Blindspot, set in colonial Boston.
Off the Shelf
Recent books with Harvard connections