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.

Harvard’s Standoff: The History

From campus protests to policy clashes, a timeline of Harvard’s tensions with Washington

by Olivia Farrar

Staging Memory

The A.R.T. adapts The Odyssey.

by Max J. Krupnick

Safe Streets

Working to curb road deaths

by Max J. Krupnick

Emerging Maine Artists

Works by young artists at the Portland Museum of Art

by Nell Porter-Brown

The New Old Boston Athenaeum

Find “the joy of discovery and power of this unique place.”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Music and Medicine

Toussaint Miller explores the healing power of art.


by Lydialyle Gibson

Banned in Sparta

Millennia-old Greek lyrics ring out again in twenty-first-century pop music.

by Craig Lambert

Leslie Jamison’s Many Selves

The essayist on isolation, empathy, and selfhood

by Nina Pasquini

Harvard Sculptor Justin Peyser

Probing the concepts of territory and sanctuary.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Faculty Room Facelift

Reimagining an iconic space to reflect the Harvard community more comprehensively

by John S. Rosenberg

A Gift of Munch Artworks

Transformative bequest left to the Harvard Art Museums

by Jonathan Shaw