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 Faculty Group Proposes Limits on A Grades

The grade inflation measure requires a full faculty vote, expected in the spring.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Our American History—in Images

Original works by “Golden Age” illustrators on view in Newport, Rhode Island

by Nell Porter-Brown

T.S. Eliot as a Harvard student

A rediscovery of the emerging poet

by Adam Kirsch

Artist Rick Lowe speaks at Harvard Graduate School of Design's 2015 Class Day

The Houston-based public artist addressed graduates and their families.

by Stephanie Garlock

Natalie Portman ’03 Speaks at Harvard College Class Day 2015

At Harvard College Class Day, the actress urges class members to forge their own paths.

by Laura Levis

Robert Darnton, at Retirement, reflects on the State of Harvard libraries

Robert Darnton, retiring University Librarian, assesses the collections in a digital era.

Craig Lambert on shadow work

A Harvard Magazine alumnus on the new world of “middle-class serfdom”

by John S. Rosenberg

Rick Lowe of Project Row Houses at Harvard Design School Class Day 2015

The founder of Houston’s Project Row Houses is a pioneer in social-practice art.

Edouard Kopp named curator of drawings at Harvard Art Museums

Will oversee the Art Museums’ pre-twentieth-century drawings.

Harvard Art Museums installs “Triangle Constellation” by Carlos Amorales

A new sculpture, calibrated to help the Harvard Art Museums achieve balance

by Sophia Nguyen