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 worm-like creature known as the "velvet worm" rears as if looking at the camera

Creepy Crawlies and Sticky Murder Weapons at Harvard

In the shadows of Singapore’s forests, an ancient predator lies in wait—the velvet worm.

by Olivia Farrar

Child in her postwar Paris kitchen

A Schlesinger Library exhibit celebrates Julia Child’s centennial

Julia is feted in her centenary year.

by Christopher Reed

From an exhibit on poet Amy Lowell at Houghton Library

Art, lectures, cultural and campus events at Harvard

Harvard arts and cultural events

<i>Mahatma Gandhi</i> (2001), by Brett Cook-Dizney, Hawes Hall

Contemporary art at Harvard Business School, thanks to Gerald W. Schwartz

An unusual art collection in an unexpected place

by John S. Rosenberg

Jane Pickering

Jane Pickering director Harvard science, culture museums

Jane Pickering appointed executive director of science, culture museums

Anthony Amore

Rotterdam art theft prompts response from security expert Anthony Amore

Anthony Amore, M.P.A. ’00, comments on a Rotterdam museum’s loss.

Art from the lecture “Strange Planetary Vistas from Kepler,” at the Center for Astrophysics

Art, lectures, cultural and campus events at Harvard

Harvard arts and cultural events

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital

The Paul S. Russell, MD Museum of Medical History and Innovation at MGH

Putting a warm face on an intimidating proposition

by Christopher Reed

The Peabody Museum's Alexandre A. Tokovinine, a lecturer on anthropology and research associate, is shown at work within a protective tent during the scanning of the Chinese stele—conducted at night for optimal results.

Restoring Chinese monument Harvard campus

Preserving an historic Chinese monument, long neglected

Photograph (c. 1935) of a fragment from a 12th–14th century Thai bodhisattva statue, along with the plasticene copy made by a pupil at the Perkins Institute who manually explored, and then copied, the hand.

Grants make Harvard Art Museums collections more accessible

The funds enabled creation of in-depth finding aids for historical materials.

Ethan Lasser

Ethan Lasser appointed curator at Harvard Art Museums

New curator brings in-gallery teaching experience to American art collection