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.

Woman with long hair, smiling, wearing a black sweater, in a textured beige background.

For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Three men juggle while roller-skating

The Forgotten Jugglers

Vaudeville's mysterious Ader Brothers

by Nancy Walecki

Three Cheers

A salute to a writer and two artists who served readers especially well in 2022

Repeated images of a ballet dancer warming up amid a teal background

Bodies in Motion

Inspiring new exhibit at the deCordova Museum and Sculpture Park

by Nell Porter-Brown

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda

The proposed performing arts center, as seen from across North Harvard Street.

Allston Performing Arts Center Planned

The project will also include Harvard housing.

by Jonathan Shaw

Ode to a Beloved Maestro

Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra alumni honor their late conductor, James Yannatos.

by Nancy Walecki

painting of twins asleep on a NYC subway, nestled against their caregiver

Curiosities: The Art of Childhood

A new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston

by Nell Porter-Brown

A collection of abstract geometric paintings hang above a white couch

Straight Lines and Odd Angles

Painter Judith Seligson’s creative juxtapositions

by Lydialyle Gibson

Celeste Ng

Celeste Ng debuts new novel

“Our Missing Hearts” embodies the author’s hope that storytelling can be an agent of change.

by Nancy Walecki

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui