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.

Bringing Korean Stories to Life

Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.

by Max J. Krupnick

Tony Torn stars in "Ubu Sings Ubu" at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater

A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi

by Nell Porter-Brown

A grammar of pain: review of documentary "Of Men and War"

A new film about American veterans and the struggle to tell their stories through trauma therapy

by Jacqueline Feldman

Benjamin Scheuer tells his life story through song in "The Lion"

In his poignant one-man musical, Benjamin Scheuer finds his roar.

by Laura Levis

The Puppet Showplace Theater keeps an ancient art form alive.

Contemporary takes on puppetry in Brookline, Massachusetts

by Nell Porter-Brown

From Harvard to Nashville, Wisewater makes music

A folk trio finds their harmony, on the road.

by Sophia Nguyen

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

The perfect pitch of filmmaker Andrew Bujalski

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

Singer Candice Hoyes reinterprets Duke Ellington songs in new jazz album

Singer Candice Hoyes reinterprets Duke Ellington songs in her new album On a Turquoise Cloud.

by Laura Levis

Animator Danielle Feinberg illuminates how Pixar tells stories

At Pixar, putting the finishing touches on animated worlds

by Max Suechting

Jazz artist Kavita Shah's border-crossing compositions

Kavita Shah makes music in many idioms.

by Samantha Maldonado