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.

‘Passengers’ at A.R.T. Blends Acrobatics with Einstein’s Relativity

Review: Quantum mechanics meets circus arts at the American Repertory Theater’s performance

by Olivia Farrar

Saxophonist John Payne teaches ensembles, jazz, and improvisation

Rejecting the “tyranny of competence,” John Payne helps musicians bloom.

by Craig Lambert

Review of Thomas Forrest Kelly’s “Capturing Music,” by Anna Zayaruznaya

The recording of songs and sounds past—a history of musical notation in the West

by Anna Zayaruznaya

Gospel choir performs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gospel choir concert offers Christmas songs and other inspirational music at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December

Events on and off campus during November and December

Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces

Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach

Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal

The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.

by Laura Levis

“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard

Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.

Bill Haney's documentaries with social conscience

Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.

by Laura Levis

Finding Neverland at Harvard's American Repertory Theater

The ART launches a sumptuous world premiere of Finding Neverland

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Far Cry performs at the Gardner Museum

Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.