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.

A whimsical illustration of a man balancing on a rooftop edge, wearing a suit and glasses.

The Artist Edward Gorey—and Pets—at Harvard

Winter exhibits at Houghton Library   

by Nell Porter-Brown

Megan Marshall

Havard alumna Megan Marshall ’77 wins Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Damrosch, O’Brien, and Adams named finalists.

Thackeray’s self-portrait from an 1848 edition of <i>Vanity Fair</i>

Harvard’s Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray

Houghton Library celebrates William Makepeace Thackeray.

by Christopher Reed

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

An episode from <i>Starling</i> in which the superheroine, having made a midair rescue of an aspiring suicide who&rsquo;s leapt off a bridge, gets a not-especially-grateful reception.

Sage Stossel's graphic novel, Starling, depicts an anti-superheroine.

“Starling” can handle thugs and palookas, but not daily life.

by Craig Lambert

1911 Chicago Cubs player cards from the pre-Wrigley Field era, when baseball and smoking were <i>both</i> all-American

The sabermetric revolution

Economist Andrew Zimbalist analyzes the sabermetric revolution

The wrack at your feet, made lovely: Josie Iselin&rsquo;s photograph of <i>Botryocladia pseudodichotoma, </i>sea grapes, from San Clemente Island, California

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Thomas Rowlandson&rsquo;s view of the library of the Royal Institution in London, circa 1810

Innovation in humanities courses aims to reach larger numbers of students

New gateways into the humanities for students “still fully molten as human beings”

by Jonathan Shaw

Thursday evening, Dava Sobel read excerpts from her most recent book, on Copernicus.

At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses what convinced Copernicus to publish his work

At Harvard, Dava Sobel discusses the conversation that convinced Copernicus to publish his lifework.

Justin Kaplan at home

A tribute to Justin Kaplan

In tribute to an old friend

On familiar ground: AMS Jr. at the White House, 1965

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. letters liberalism

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s "fighting faith" in liberalism, revealed in his letters