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.

Harvard Divinity School Sets New Priorities

After two years of turmoil, Dean Marla Frederick describes a more pluralistic future for the institution’s culture and curriculum.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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

Stinging the Dinosaurs

An excerpt from The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies, by Bert Hölldobler and E. O. Wilson

Photos in Thread

Fabric artist Linda Liu Behar stitches embroideries atop her own photographs.

by Craig Lambert

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.

by John S. Rosenberg

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.

by Jonathan Shaw

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Poetic Patriarch

Craig Lambert profiles the poet Richard Wilbur.

by Craig Lambert