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.
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Excerpt from “Not Quite Not White” by Sharmila Sen
A “first-gen” American explores race and assimilation in the United States.
“The Black Clown” by Langston Hughes is set to music
An oratorio adapted from Langston Hughes
Laura van den Berg and “The Third Hotel”
In Laura van den Berg’s fiction, the deeply strange is ordinary.
Lives Glimpsed through Passports
Houghton exhibit documents “the dream of a globalized world.”
A printer's archive and Nam June Paik's video art, at the Harvard Art Museums
Recent acquisitions at the Harvard Art Museums train a fresh lens on photography and video art.
Ladders, Squirrels, and Reproductive Rights
A graduate’s foray into the “real world” of fringe theater
by Olivia Munk
Amelie Chai of SPiNE, an architect in Myanmar
Practicing architecture in Myanmar
by Sanya Sagar
Soyoung Lee named chief curator at the Harvard Art Museums
Korean art expert Soyoung Lee will join the museums in September.
Not “Mickey Mousing”: the rigors of accompanying silent films
Three pianists making silent film sing
Book review: “A Terrible Country” is a cold, welcome wind
Keith Gessen’s second novel deftly interweaves politics and personal history.