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
Elizabeth Claire Walker, from the Los Angeles Ballet to Harvard and back
A ballet career, earned through college and cattle calls
Illustrator Andrea Tsurumi, on making art to "fight the shorthand"
In Andrea Tsurumi's comics and illustrated work, life is observed and shown as absurd.
“Aeneid Book VI,” by Seamus Heaney, reviewed by Richard F. Thomas
A new translation from the Aeneid
The Harvard Giza Project rebuilds a 4,500-year-old Egyptian throne
“Experimental archaeology” at the Harvard Semitic Museum
Matika Wilbur photographs of Native American women on exhibit at Radcliffe
Native American women are the focus of photographer Matika Wilbur’s Radcliffe exhibit.
by Laura Levis
Houghton Library Celebrates the Quatercentenary of Shakespeare's Death
Celebrating four centuries of Shakespeare at Harvard
by Olivia Munk
Boston's Roxbury International Film Festival, June 22-30
Independent films by and about people of color
Harvard's theater, dance, and media concentration looks to expand
A concentration “400 years in the making,” and two semesters old
Anna Agoston's photography, teeming with life
Artist Anna Agoston grows into her medium with her photographic studies of plants.
Hopkinson Smith’s new recordings of Bach aim for “perfect union”
A lutenist pursues what he calls his “lifelong task.”