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.

Two photos of the same woman, one as a store worker the other as an Arctic explorer

Harvard Squared | May-June 2025

Rendering Dreams in Art

South Korean artist’s socially themed photographs at the Peabody Essex Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Portrait of Kapwani Kiwanga

Montage | November-December 2022

The Nature of Archives

Installation artist Kapwani Kiwanga on power, resistance, and plants

by Salomé Gómez-Upegui

wintry scene of downtown Vermont's pedestrian shopping zone

Harvard Squared | November-December 2022

Leaning into Winter

Exploring Burlington, Vermont

by Nell Porter-Brown

colorful painting detailing birch trees

Harvard Squared | September-October 2022

The Magic of Luigi Lucioni

 Exhibit at Vermont's Shelburne Museum offers beauty and vitality

by Nell Porter-Brown

A black and white cartoon shows a computer-user, with Earth’s globe for a head, stares into a screen, while spiders labeled “hate,” “misinformation,” “fear,” and “lies” crawl across his body, wrapping him in their webs.

Montage | September-October 2022

Truer than Reality

Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly

David Andersson standing among his colorful painted portraits

Alumni | September-October 2022

Making Art Work

David Andersson’s quest to reshape the public realm

by Nell Porter-Brown

Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Holodomor Memorial

University News |

Wheat and War in Ukraine

A Harvard graduate’s design of the newly relevant Holodomor Memorial in Washington, D.C.

by Isabel Mehta

Green and Colorado River junction

Montage | July-August 2022

An Astronomer's Desert Photography

Photographer Stephen Strom explores otherworldly landscapes

by Nancy Walecki

Landscape painting of wide sky and golden field with trees in the distance

Harvard Squared | July-August 2022

Honoring a Life with Birds

A Concord Museum and Mass Audubon exhibit on William Brewster celebrates a new wildlife sanctuary 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Harvard Squared | July-August 2022

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

by Craig Lambert

The seven 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

Graduate & Professional Schools |

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars

Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.

by Jacob Sweet