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’s Hasty Pudding Honors Rose Byrne

The Bridesmaids actress celebrated her 2026 Woman of the Year Award with a roast and a parade.

by Schuyler Velasco , Kate Kaufman

Experimental Magic

Jazz composer Phillip Golub and the art of making magic

by Nancy Walecki

Music and Language, Reconciled

Matthew Aucoin on opera

by Thomas Forrest Kelly

Looking for the Real Stan Lee

Biographer Abraham Riesman plumbs the dark mysteries of the Marvel auteur

by Dan Kelly

Hasty Pudding Theatricals Woman and Man of the Year

Jennifer Garner and Jason Bateman received the 72nd annual honors.

by Kristina DeMichele

What Does the Arctic Circle Sound Like?

Singer-songwriter Claire Dickson '19 releases debut album inspired by the tundra

by Nancy Walecki

Being Alive Together

Stephen Sondheim, Omicron, and the Power of Theater

by Robin Bernstein

World Premiere of esperanza spalding and Wayne Shorter’s Opera, (Iphigenia)

Two jazz legends collaborate on an operatic reimagination of a Greek tragedy.

by Nancy Walecki

"“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”

Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.

by Lily Scherlis

Visual Music

The "blurred boundaries" of Sam Wu's compositions

by Nancy Walecki

Staff Pick: A.R.T.’s Wild: A Musical Becoming

Harvard’s Diane Paulus brings climate change to center stage

by Nell Porter-Brown