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.

Bringing Korean Stories to Life

Composer Julia Riew writes the musicals she needed to see.

by Max J. Krupnick

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.

by Craig Lambert

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”

by Tom Vinciguerra

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

by Craig Lambert

“A Theory of Justice: The Musical!” and Harvard’s Class of 1944

A Theory of Justice as musical comedy, and the class of ’44