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.

An illustration of a green leaf being hit by a beam of light and bouncing off the leaf and then becoming a color prisim

Harvard’s Plant Collection Meets Space Science

Light-based analysis of botanical collections link plants to Earth’s changing climate.

by Jonathan Shaw

Wisteria in Pebble Garden at Dumbarton Oaks

From the Soil Up

The art of conserving an historic garden at Dumbarton Oaks

by May Wang

colorful painting detailing birch trees

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter-Brown

The Geeky Underground

Science-fiction zines and the quest to save Star Trek

by Nancy Walecki

Landscape painting of wide sky and golden field with trees in the distance

Honoring a Life with Birds

A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

by Craig Lambert

Blanche Calloway spreading her arms during a performance

Blanche Calloway, Cab’s Enterprising Older Sister

The success and struggles of a pioneering musician

by Jacob Sweet

Black-and-white photo of a hill with bare trees

Arnold Arboretum Turns 150

A look back at the Arboretum's history—and the millennia to come

by Nancy Walecki

A cartoon of a man speaking on a telephone and workers at desks behind him

The Fighting Pencil

How cartoonists powered the USSR propaganda apparatus

by Nancy Walecki

Discolored trees over a vista

Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum

The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford

by Jacob Sweet

Newspaper illustration depicts Richard P. Robinson fleeing Helen Jewett's murder scene

True Crime

Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media

by Nancy Walecki