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

Harvard's Nico Maffey performs in the national tour of Pippin

Acrobat Nico Maffey ’13 performs in Pippin.

by Laura Levis

Harvard's Hasty Pudding names Kerry Washington Woman of the Year

The Hasty Pudding picks the Scandal actress for its famous pot.

by Laura Levis

Portrait of Harvard director of jazz bands Yosvany Terry

A well-traveled Afro-Cuban jazz musician lands at Harvard.

by Sophia Nguyen

Carlton Cuse discusses what animates his work

Television’s Carlton Cuse on what animates his work

by Lydialyle Gibson

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Classical music composer Lei Liang gives voice to silenced stories

After “growing up in the archives,” a composer makes forgotten histories heard.

by Lara Pellegrinelli

Tania James’s dueling artistic impulses

A writer balances structure and spontaneity in her latest novel.

by Aria Thaker

Tony Torn stars in "Ubu Sings Ubu" at Harvard’s American Repertory Theater

A new cabaret version of Alfred Jarry’s subversive 1896 Ubu Roi

by Nell Porter-Brown

A grammar of pain: review of documentary "Of Men and War"

A new film about American veterans and the struggle to tell their stories through trauma therapy

by Jacqueline Feldman

Chapter and verse quotation-citation correspondence site

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words