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.
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.
Composer Michael Friedman and The Civilians
Composer Michael Friedman’s “investigative theater”
Courtney B. Vance, Charlie Albright headline Harvard campaign entertainment
Alumni artists Charlie Albright and Courtney B. Vance at the campaign festivities
The play “All the Way” depicts the early Lyndon Johnson presidency.
The play All the Way at the ART depicts the conflicts of LBJ's first year in the White House.
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities reinvent themselves
Facing declining enrollments, the humanities seek to reinvent themselves.
Saxophonist Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor
Joshua Redman's sonorous voice on tenor
“A Theory of Justice: The Musical!” and Harvard’s Class of 1944
A Theory of Justice as musical comedy, and the class of ’44