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.

by Schuyler Velasco , Kate Kaufman

Matt Damon is the 2013 Harvard Arts Medalist

The actor receives the 2013 Arts Medal to kick off the Arts First celebration.

jazz concert for Tom Everett of Harvard Bands

The Harvard University Jazz Bands performed a special concert for recently retired director Tom Everett.

Nick Wyman promotes the arts as president of Actors' Equity Association

A Broadway actor on the “true spark of theater”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

"The House I Live In" examines the link between American drug laws and poverty.

The House I Live In examines the link between American drug laws and poverty.

"All Things Considered" host Melissa Block talks about the show.

Melissa Block '83, host of the NPR show All Things Considered, spoke about it at the Radcliffe Institute.

American Repertory Theater presents Tennessee Williams’s “The Glass Menagerie”

Tennessee Williams gets his first ART production.

Actor Kiefer Sutherland chosen Harvard's Hasty Pudding 2013 Man of the Year

The Golden Globe-winning actor will receive his Pudding Pot February 8.

Marion Cotillard honored as Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

The Rust and Bone actress was at the center of the annual Hasty Pudding parade.

Matt Damon will be the 2013 Harvard Arts Medalist

Movie actor Matt Damon has been chosen to receive the 2013 Harvard Arts Medal at the Arts First Festival on April 28.