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 President Alan Garber Helps First-Years Move In
As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, Garber gets students settled.
John Ruskin, Victorian Radical and Art Historian
A Houghton exhibition explores the thinker’s influences and impact.
Tracy K. Smith Named Harvard Arts Medalist
The U.S. poet laureate will be honored on May 2.
Manuscripts Illuminated…by Women
Tracing lapis lazuli provides evidence that women were directly involved in creating medieval illuminated manuscripts.
Joanna Southcott and “The Songs of Argus Zion”
…and a possible clue in the stacks
Bed furnishings in early America
A Wadsworth Atheneum and Museum exhibit reveals how we once slept.
Pre-Columbian quipu exhibit at the MFA
“Cecilia Vicuña: Disappeared Quipu,” at the MFA
A winter’s trip to Portland, Maine
Enjoying Portland, Maine, in the “off-season”
Arts join sciences in Harvard Allston
Alongside a huge applied-sciences center, a toehold for art-making
Philip J. Deloria, scholar of Native American studies
Philip Deloria studies American Indians and the contradictions that made America.
Tale of Genji Illustrated
A magnificent set of images, published—and exhibited