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.
What of the Humble Pencil?
Review: At the Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibit, drawing takes center stage
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Steampunk art at the Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
Radcliffe alumna Judith Brodsky, on printmaking and risk-taking
From the beginning, artist and advocate Judith Brodsky felt “pulls in different directions.”
by Violet Baron
Pranks in Pusey Library
A retrospective on the Lampoon’s 140 years of mischief
Babar Comes to Houghton Library
Houghton hosts an exhibit of the green suit-wearing French elephant through August 31.
The Harvard Giza Project rebuilds a 4,500-year-old Egyptian throne
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum
Matika Wilbur photographs of Native American women on exhibit at Radcliffe
Native American women are the focus of photographer Matika Wilbur’s Radcliffe exhibit.
by Laura Levis
Houghton Library Celebrates the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Death
Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard
by Olivia Munk
Artist Ellen Harvey holds a "dark mirror" to the museum world
Ellen Harvey's installations offer "complicated gifts" to the viewer.
Harvard Portrait: Ethan Lasser
A Harvard Art Museums curator on how artworks talk to one another, and to us