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.

A vibrant composition of flowers, a bird, and butterflies with a distant manor under a moody sky.

Rachel Ruysch’s Lush (Still) Life

Now on display at the Museum of Fine Arts, a Dutch painter’s art proved a treasure trove for scientists.

by Lydialyle Gibson

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.

Truer than Reality

Kevin Kallaugher on the art of editorial cartooning

by Dan Kelly

David Andersson standing among his colorful painted portraits

Making Art Work

David Andersson’s quest to reshape the public realm

by Nell Porter-Brown

Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the Holodomor Memorial

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

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

Honoring a Life with Birds

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

by Nell Porter-Brown

Seafaring America

Visiting Mystic, Connecticut

by Craig Lambert

The seven 2022 Harvard Horzions scholars

Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars

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

by Jacob Sweet

Bradley Scott Davis standing in front of a wall of frog paintings

A Wildlife Painter's Fantastic Beasts

Bradley Scott Davis's conservation-minded artwork

by Lydialyle Gibson

Discolored trees over a vista

Milton Avery, Wadsworth Atheneum

The American painter’s "playful use of color and diverse stylistic repertoire" on display in Hartford

by Jacob Sweet

During her Norton Lectures, Laurie Anderson plays a violin of her own invention.

"“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