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

Tempera portrait of Egyptian woman

Ancient Egyptian Funerary Portraits

Harvard Art Museums’ exhibit uncovers paintings’ mysterious origins.

by Nancy Walecki

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

glass and steel addition to a traditional brick building that houses the Mattatuck Museum

Downtown Oasis

Connecticut’s Mattatuck Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Book covers for South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation, Punks: New & Selected Poems, and A New Name: Septology VI-VII

Three Alumni Named as National Book Award Finalists

An historian, a poet, and a translator

by Lydialyle Gibson

William Tamplin in his Marine Corps dress blues uniform

A Long Night's Journey in Palestine

William Tamplin, Ph.D. ’20,  on the lyricism and secrecy of an Arabic literary pioneer 

by Lydialyle Gibson

Wisteria in Pebble Garden at Dumbarton Oaks

From the Soil Up

The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks

by May Wang

colorful painting detailing birch trees

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter-Brown

esperanza spalding, wearing a white jumpsuit with a "Life Force" logo, stands next to an upright bass

esperanza spalding and “What if . . .” Music

The musician and "songwright" invites the listener in

by Nancy Walecki

A black and white cartoon shows a computer-user, with Earth’s globe for a head, stares into a screen, while spiders labeled “hate,” “misinformation,” “fear,” and “lies” crawl across his body, wrapping him in their webs.

Truer than Reality

Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly

Juna Gjata with a microphone in front of her

Freedom from Food

A lifelong struggle with body image led Juna Gjata to podcasting.

by Jacob Sweet