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.

Keri Russell Calls ‘The Diplomat’ a Love Letter to Public Servants

A Harvard Kennedy School event looks behind the scenes of the Netflix drama. 

by Tamara Evdokimova

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

The Poetry of John Milton

The poetry of John Milton

Artist Sarah Hulsey explores the hidden beauty in texts and maps

A printmaker plays with the systems and structures of language.

by Samantha Maldonado

Benjamin Scheuer tells his life story through song in "The Lion"

In his poignant one-man musical, Benjamin Scheuer finds his roar.

by Laura Levis

Josep Lluís Sert's International Style icon is updated

Josep Lluís Sert’s International Style icon gets a half-century exterior toning and face lift.

Stan Munro's toothpick designs are on display at the Fuller Craft Museum

Stan Munro’s toothpick designs are on display at the Fuller Craft Museum.

by Nell Porter-Brown