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.
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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.
“Presenting Jane," and a youthful summer for the New York School
A rediscovered short film, with new commentary by Jane Freilicher and John Ashbery ’49, Litt.D. ’01, gives a glimpse of the New York School's early days.
"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
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.”
Fusion fantasy: a profile of translator and fiction writer Ken Liu
Ken Liu’s hybrid fiction crosses oceans and galaxies.
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.
The New Bedford Whaling Museum's Moby-Dick marathon
Herman Melville’s epic is “brought to life” in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Steampunk art at the Fuller Craft Museum
Brockton’s Fuller Craft Museum offers Steampunk art that celebrates the city’s shoe-manufacturing legacy.
Harvard Business School Sculptures
At Harvard Business School, contemporary art moves outdoors.