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 New Online Orientation Emphasizes Intellectual Paths
A summer course for first-years focuses on academic success, diverse viewpoints.
Rare books at risk
Consequences of book-breaking
Karl May, best-selling German novelist
Brief life of a myth-making writer: 1842-1912
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu, profiled
Playwright Antoinette Nwandu confronts race, religion, and her personal history.
“Write Your Own Songs”
An Oscar-nominated collaboration
by Olivia Munk
And the Academy Award Goes to…Math
Ben Zauzmer '15 tackles Oscars predictions, with math.
by Jacob Sweet
Houghton unveils TS Eliot letter about his muse Emily Hale
A bombshell letter from modernist poet T.S. Eliot, 50 years after his death
Negatively Curved Crystals
A Harvard mathematician’s “interwoven tapestries” help make the infinite visible.
The Rittase Touch
What William Rittase found when he came to Harvard in 1932
Harvard Portrait: Shawon Kinew
Connecting European Old Masters with the new landscape of art history
Romare Bearden profiled by Robert G. O'Meally
Brief life of a textured artist: 1911-1988