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.

Two people moving large abstract painting with blue V-shaped design in museum courtyard.

A Harvard Art Museums Painting Gets a Bath

Water and sunlight help restore a modern American classic.

by Max J. Krupnick

A live sketch from Lori Vallow Daybell’s murder trial. Daybell is in the middle between two men, all looking somber.

Something from Nothing

Painter, animator, illustrator, and silhouettist Susan Bin

by Max J. Krupnick

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter-Brown

Photograph of Sarah Kariko ’90 operating a letterpress at the Bow & Arrow Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Eviction of the Bow & Arrow Press

The Adams House space that gave the letterpress studio its name will become a student common room.

by Craig Lambert

Realistic diorama of an old growth forest

The Harvard Forest Dioramas

Scenes of an ever-changing forest, in miniature

by Nancy Walecki

Boardwalk by Taunton River and Braga Bridge overhead

Fall River: Phoenix Rising?

“A good place to be pleasantly surprised”

by Nell Porter-Brown

portrait of young girl surrounded by ornate gold-painted frame

Reframing American Art

Contextualized Spanish colonial works at the Harvard Art Museums

by Nell Porter-Brown

Digital reconstruction of two medieval tiles

Medieval Disinformation?

A Worcester exhibit links politics and visual culture.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Do You Believe in Magic?

Former practicing magician Dan Droz ’72 turns his tricks into a career in sculpture

by Nancy Walecki

Dumb Menakaya standing on campus with her camera

Dumebi Menakaya Shoots Secrecy

The photographer takes self-portraits—without photographing herself.

by Rebecca E. J. Cadenhead

Fernando Zóbel-Montojo

Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984

by Felipe Pereda