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.

How AI Is Reshaping Supply Chains

Harvard Kennedy School lecturer on using AI to strengthen supply chains

by Olivia Farrar

Revisiting Jack Lueders-Booth’s portrait series “Women Prisoners”

The portraits in Jack Lueders-Booth’s 40-year-old series feel even more vivid today.


by Olivia Schwob

Claire Chase, flutist and Harvard professor, profiled by Lucy Caplan

How flutist Claire Chase signals a key change for Harvard’s music department

by Lucy Caplan

Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House, in Gloucester

A sprawling house museum celebrates decorative arts and the creative spirit of Henry Davis Sleeper.

by Nell Porter-Brown

T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Works by T.C. Cannon at the Peabody Essex Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

National Black Doll Museum

The National Black Doll Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Director Agnès Varda visits Harvard for the Norton Lectures on Cinema

Agnès Varda delivered the second installment of this year’s Norton Lectures on Cinema.

by Sophia Nguyen

"I want one more shot!": profile of TV writer Nell Scovell

TV writer Nell Scovell looks back on Just the Funny Parts.

by Sophia Nguyen

Looking Back at the Lampoon’s Heyday

A new biopic, scripted by John Aboud ’95 and Michael Colton ’97, follows how Doug Kenney ’68 franchised fun, died young, and became a comedy legend.

by Sophia Nguyen

At Harvard, "Inventur" delves into a forgotten period of German art

Taking stock of an overlooked cohort of artists: those who, during World War II, stayed in Germany—and survived

by Sophia Nguyen

"Enlightenment Now," by Steven Pinker, reviewed by Ada Palmer

Steven Pinker’s Enlightenment Now defends science from modern-day foes.

by Ada Palmer