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.

A bronze sculpture of intertwined hands in a park, with a discussion panel in the foreground.

Is the Constitution Broken?

Harvard legal scholars debate the state of our founding national document.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Seriously Funny

Ian Frazier combines an historian's discipline with an original comic mind...

by Craig Lambert

Art historian Yukio Lippit in the Japanese merchant's house at the Boston Children's Museum.

Works and Woods

Architecture and ecology in Japan...

by Paul Gleason

Young Audubon

Jean-Jacques Audubon did not become the internationally celebrated John James Audubon of The Birds of America overnight...

Self-Definition

Joel Derfner’s new book reveals some hidden depths.

"Launched into Eternity"

Broadsides and hangings in old England...

"Anti-Dominant" Journal

A small home for good writing

by Paul Gleason

Felonious Mayhem

Enron and other capitalist calamities

"A Liar's Biography"

An art forger's success has less to do with his prowess as a visual artist than with his use and misuse of history.

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter & Verse

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words