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.

The Artist Edward Gorey—and Pets—at Harvard

Winter exhibits at Houghton Library   

by Nell Porter-Brown

Recent books with Harvard connections

Olmsted's parks, Putin and Ukraine, climate shock, and more

Talking with Mia Alvar, author of “In the Country”

The fiction writer talks about her short-story collection, In the Country.

by Sophia Nguyen

Promoting the arts and humanities at Harvard Medical School

This fall, Harvard Medical School will launch a new program to promote the arts and humanities.

by Zara Zhang

Harvard’s Robin Kelsey on photography

Robin Kelsey probes the place of photography within art.

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student

A rediscovery of the emerging poet

by Adam Kirsch

Craig Lambert on shadow work

A Harvard Magazine alumnus on the new world of “middle-class serfdom”

by John S. Rosenberg