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.
What of the Humble Pencil?
Review: At the Harvard Art Museums’ new exhibit, drawing takes center stage
Tasmanian crocoite at the Harvard Museum of Natural History
What lead, chromium, and oxygen can do
Mineralogical Marvels
Rocky treasures from the Harvard Museum of Natural History
Nineteenth-century dancing lessons
A professor's passion reveals how one learned to dance in Jane Austen's day.
War and peace in Memorial Hall's stained glass
A stained-glass window in Harvard's Memorial Hall
Reconstructed Sassetta altarpiece
Investigators construct a virtual Italian Renaissance altarpiece.
A scrapbook of seaweed
Seaweed and seaside scenes of Martha’s Vineyard
Love Nest
The most romantic tent in town
Warrior Artists
Lakota drawings inspire a dramatic exhibition.
Pith Paper
On Tetrapanax papyriferum and Chinese art
A Lover's Picnic
The late Stuart Cary Welch was a connoisseur of lovers’ picnics and the world of Persian and Indian art.