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 of Arts and Sciences Faces a $350 Million Deficit

At a faculty meeting, Dean Hopi Hoekstra advocates for long-term, structural solutions.

by Joanna M Weiss

Profile of photography curator Makeda Best

Focusing on the Harvard Art Museums’ new photography curator

by Sophia Nguyen

Time in space: profile of artist Renée Green

Renée Green’s exhibition “Within Living Memory” closes her Harvard residency.

by Lily Scherlis

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

“Gorey’s World” at the Wadsworth Atheneum

Edward Gorey’s own art collection at the Wadsworth Atheneum

by Nell Porter-Brown

A trip to New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain’s “Little Poland” and museum of American art

by Nell Porter-Brown

Frederick Wiseman gives Harvard's first Norton Lecture on Cinema

Documentarian Frederick Wiseman is the first filmmaker to deliver a Norton Lecture.

by Sophia Nguyen

Benjamin Franklin’s Retirement and Reinvention

Two hundred and seventy years ago, Benjamin Franklin did something highly unusual. He retired.

by William N. Thor...

Nigerian Women Speak Out

HEAR WORD! portrays the lives of Nigerian women.

Newport’s winter activities

Visiting Newport, Rhode Island, during the winter

by Nell Porter-Brown

Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy

Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship

by Jesse McCarthy