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

Actress Marion Cotillard chosen Harvard's Hasty Pudding 2013 Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding Club picks an Oscar winner to receive its pudding pot.

Longtime Harvard band director Tom Everett retires

After more than four decades of service, the maestro retires next month.

Hannah Lash writes modern music with engaging textures

Hannah Lash’s personal, yet crystalline, music

by Thomas Vinciguerra

Irna Phillips, soap opera’s single mother, by Lynn Liccardo

Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973

by Lynn Liccardo

A video with composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10

Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, discusses how she forms a complex piece of music from a simple idea.

Lincoln movie screenplay writer Tony Kushner talks with Harvard President Faust

The screenwriter speaks to the Harvard community at a private screening of the film.

Ken Burns visits Harvard to discuss his new PBS documentary "The Dust Bowl"

Ken Burns shares clips from his chronicle of one of the worst man-made ecological disasters in American history.

The wealth and fall of David and Jackie Siegel: a documentary

A documentary film turns a lens on the “1 percenters.”

by Laura Levis

Art, lectures, cultural and campus events at Harvard

Harvard arts and cultural events

by Nell Porter-Brown