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 President Alan Garber Helps First-Years Move In

As a potential settlement with the Trump administration looms, Garber gets students settled. 

by Olivia Farrar

"I once knew a girl": Carrie Mae Weems at Harvard's Cooper Gallery

Viewing Carrie Mae Weems’s art—and hearing her voice—at the Hutchins Center’s Cooper Gallery

by Lily Scherlis

Anna Deavere Smith welcomes Harvard to a "lecture-performance" on hospitality

In her “lecture-performance,” playwright and actress Anna Deavere Smith practiced and preached “Radical Hospitality.”

by Matthew Browne

D.J. and experimental composer Jace Clayton discusses his new book, Uproot.

In Uproot, Jace Clayton ’97 explores technological trends in music around the globe.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon

Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

by Evander Price

Steampunk art at the Fuller Craft Museum

Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Business School Sculptures

At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.

by John S. Rosenberg

John Singleton Copley and Harvard, by Jane Kamensky

When the College commissioned Copley

by Jane Kamensky

Animator Tim Reckart and the art of stop-motion acting

The director of Head Over Heels and The Star, on animation's different dimensions

by Sophia Nguyen

Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu

Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.

by Sophia Nguyen

Harvardians awarded National Humanities Medals and National Book nominations

Last week, three Harvard affiliates were awarded the National Humanities Medal and eight were long-listed for the National Book Awards.

by Sophia Nguyen