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 Hasty Pudding Honors Rose Byrne
The Bridesmaids actress celebrated her 2026 Woman of the Year Award with a roast and a parade.
Harvard-based Sawyer seminar discusses hearing through the body
Through cat telephones and electronic dance music, scholars discuss the physical basis of sound.
Wynton Marsalis speaks at Harvard on the soul of jazz
The bandleader weaves performance and storytelling to paint a picture of jazz in nineteenth-century New Orleans.
Helen Mirren Honored as Woman of the Year
The Academy Award-winning actress was at the center of the annual Hasty Pudding parade.
Folk singer and activist Pete Seeger dies at 94
The folk singer and activist inspired many.
Neil Patrick Harris is the Hasty Pudding Club's 2014 Man of the Year
The Emmy-winning actor and singer will receive his Hasty Pudding Pot February 7.
Harvard's Hasty Pudding picks Helen Mirren as its Woman of the Year
The Hasty Pudding picks an Oscar winner for its pudding pot.
Herbie Hancock Is Harvard’s 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry
The jazz pianist will give six lectures in February and March.
Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters
In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.
Foreign Parts, a movie, records a Queens neighborhood now set for demolition
The Queens neighborhood, about to be demolished, has been documented by Harvard-affiliated filmmakers.
"The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets" reveals hidden science references
Simon Singh’s new book reveals multiple math references in the show and reveals their Harvard sources.