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.

Julie Riew, wearing a white dress, playing guitar and singing into a microphone on stage.

Bringing Korean Stories to Life

Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.

by Max J. Krupnick

The big production number “What You Want,” from the London production of <i>Legally Blonde</i>

“Legally Blonde” composer-lyricists Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe profiled

Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.

by Dick Friedman

Ram Venkateswaran, of the HMS class of 2017, performs in the Tosteson Medical Education Center’s atrium last spring. He and pianist Chris Lim, HMS ’16, offered a joint program: “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (Fauré); “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (von Paradis); “Spanish Dance” (Granados/Kreisler); and <i>“Widmung</i>” (Schumann/Liszt).

Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.

by Karolina Brook

Robert Gardner in his Cambridge home, October 2013

Filmmaker Robert Gardner Dies at 88

The anthropological filmmaker founded the Harvard Film Study Center.

John Adams

John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” at Met prompts new controversy

The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.

In the e-book version of <i>Macbeth,</i> the witches&rsquo; dark mischief unfolds beside the text.

Shakespeare e-books link text with new performances

New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard’s 1906 Dolmetsch harpsichord has two keyboards, or “manuals.”

Two classic harpsichords that Harvard owns

Two keyboards, each with a story to tell

by Craig Lambert

Rebirth Brass Band

New Orleans jazz comes to Cambridge

Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.

Joyful Noise chorus member Kevin Jackson sings “What a Wonderful World," assisted by Collegium Musicum’s Neal Champagne.

Harvard's Collegium Musicum and Joyful Noise celebrate music as therapy

Harvard’s Collegium Musicum celebrates the power of music as therapy.

by Jessica Salley

At Harvard, economist Jacques Attali discusses music and political economy

French economist Jacques Attali discusses music as a metaphor for civil society.

Steven Spielberg, left, converses with Mahindra Humanities Center director Homi Bhabha.

Steven Spielberg speaks at Harvard’s Hauser Forum for the Arts

The filmmaker discusses his influences and inspirations.