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.
Reframing American Art
Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums
Comedy with a Conscience
Jimmy Tingle’s political humor in a polarized era
Finding the Movie
Screenwriter Julian Breece on “writing from the soul”
Making Art behind Bars
Formerly imprisoned artists discuss practice, community, and mass incarceration.
Adrian Piper to Receive Harvard Arts Medal
Spanning more than 50 years, the conceptual artist’s work explores race, class, gender, and identity.
Attuned to Pianos
An instrument restorer’s beautiful obsession
From War Zones to the North Shore
A new novel from foreign correspondent Wendell Steavenson
Do You Believe in Magic?
Former practicing magician Dan Droz ’72 turns his tricks into a career in sculpture
Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy
The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.
American Stories, in Wood
Marquetry artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor at the Addison Gallery of American Art