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 drawing of a young boy reading by lamplight.

What of the Humble Pencil?

Review: At the Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibit, drawing takes center stage

by Olivia Farrar

Wintry Portsmouth at sunset

No Sleepy Coastal Town

Visiting Portsmouth in winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Art Museums

Sackler—and Beyond

The “Objects of Addiction” exhibit explores Harvard’s opium ties.    

by Max J. Krupnick

People outside at art vendors' stalls at the RISD Craft fair

Staff Pick: RISD Craft Fair

Artists showcase their work in Providence, Rhode Island. In the foreground are pieces by Dwo Wen Chen/Three Wheel Studio. 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Scroll depicting Commodore Perry’s 1853 invasion of Japan

Speaking Volumes

Glimpsing Harvard’s East Asian language materials collection

by Nell Porter-Brown

“Joyous Protest Posters”

The Royal Chicano Air Force’s activist art at Houghton Library

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

A page of medieval script with brightly colored initial letter and drawings in the margins

Words with No Freedom

A Houghton Library exhibit explores writing in prison.

by Rodrigo del Río

The Untold Story of Watercolors

Harvard Art Museums' exhibit highlights unsung facets of American watercolor.

by Nancy Walecki

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Two women seated looking into the film camera, from Japanese film Tokyo Story

Films by a Japanese Master

The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Poster for Dos farkishefte shnayderl (the bewitched little tailor) in Paris, c. 1935

Charades with Chutzpah

Harvard’s Yiddish Theater Collection

by Max J. Krupnick