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.

Five Questions with Javier Ortega-Hernández

A professor of evolutionary biology on what shaped life more than 500 million years ago

by Olivia Farrar

Deidre Lynch on Jane Austen and loving literature

Deidre Lynch on the cult of Jane Austen and the complexities of loving literature

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Cerise Lim Jacobs's otherworldly operas

In the “final phase” of her life, Cerise Lim Jacobs builds herself an oeuvre.

by Sophia Nguyen

Playwright Betty Shamieh's favorite antiheroes and angelic demons

A playwright making those overlooked by history into lore

by Olivia Schwob

Harvard Film Archive

Hidden gem: the Harvard Film Archive

by Nell Porter-Brown

Kamensky, Caplan, MacGregor, and Sherman honored by Harvard Magazine

Celebrating distinguished authors and artists

Documenting refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe

A Nieman Fellow documents the perilous passage of refugees fleeing war to seek safety in Europe.

by Maciek Nabrdalik

The presidency will be televised: "Jackie" and the paradox of American royalty

The screenplay, by Today Show producer Noah Oppenheim ’00, traces how the Camelot myth was made.

by Sophia Nguyen

The Art of Protest

“It doesn’t even make sense to me that art and protest would be separate.”

by Lydialyle Gibson

Writers Dick Friedman, Spencer Lenfield, and illustrator Brad Yeo honored

Honoring two exceptional authors and one artist

Doris Salcedo gives form to tragedy at Harvard's "The Materiality of Mourning"

A powerful exhibit opens at the Harvard Art Museums.

by Sophia Nguyen