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.
Opera director Sarah Meyers, profiled by Jennifer Gersten
Opera director Sarah Meyers doesn’t want you to notice everything.
Robert Coles and Atul Gawande on William Carlos Williams
Two Harvard doctors on William Carlos Williams
Shane McCrae: the poet and his work
The propulsive intensity of Shane McCrae’s poetry
Excerpt from “Scale & the Incas”
Questions about how societies conceptualize, perceive, and interpret scale.
Philip Johnson biography by Mark Lamster reviewed by Spencer Lee Lenfield
A “star-chitect” as P.T. Barnum
Animal-shaped vessels from around the world at the Harvard Art Museums
Drinking in style, from antiquity to the 1960s
Twyla Tharp’s “Minimalism and Me”
A retrospective show at Boston’s ICA
“Time is Now: Photography in Baldwin’s Era” exhibit at the Carpenter Center
Eighteen photographers capture the 1930s through the 1980s.
Place-Making with Plastic Tubes
An installation in Harvard Yard creates space to reflect on identity, culture, and visibility.
by Oset Babür
Image and the Arc of Feeling
Jorie Graham’s challenging lyrics use language to give readers the experience of the poem.