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 Faculty Group Proposes Limits on A Grades

The grade inflation measure requires a full faculty vote, expected in the spring.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Excerpt from “How Art Works: A Psychological Exploration”

Unpacking “what art does to us”

“Veep” showrunner David Mandel: a profile

Showrunner David Mandel guides the final season of Veep—and finds himself politicized.

by S.I. Rosenbaum

Mark Dery on Edward Gorey, reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield

An idiosyncratic new biography of Edward Gorey

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Calderwood Courtyard centers Harvard Art Museums

A tribute to the art museums’ Calderwood Courtyard

by John S. Rosenberg

Harvard music department free concerts

Free spring concerts hosted by Harvard’s music department

by Nell Porter-Brown

ArtWeek 2019

ArtWeek 2019 offers hundreds of events around Massachusetts.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

Works by Howardena Pindell at the Rose Art Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

“Binstead’s Safari” and the continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls

The continuing appeal of novelist Rachel Ingalls

by Olivia Munk