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.
Five Questions with Peter R. Girguis
A Harvard professor of evolutionary biology on what lurks in the deep sea
Events at Harvard and throughout Greater Boston in November and December
Events on and off campus during November and December
Harvard's Art Museums reopen in Renzo Piano building designed for teaching
Harvard’s Art Museums reopen, poised to fulfill their pedagogical purpose.
James Laughlin at Harvard, by Ian S. MacNiven, from LITERCHOOR IS MY BEAT
James Laughlin’s transit to Harvard and Europe—and pioneering literary publishing
History turns toward the global, the scientific, and the quantitative
Scholars pursue sweeping new interpretations of the human past.
Sociologist Orlando Patterson does landmark work on slavery and freedom.
Orlando Patterson may be the last of Harvard sociology’s big thinkers.
Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard's Washington, D.C., center, celebrates new spaces
Harvard’s Washington, D.C., humanities center enhances its community—and its intellectual reach
Harvard honors eight including Oprah Winfrey with W.E.B Du Bois Medal
The medal is the University's highest honor in the field of African and African American studies.
by Laura Levis
Master class by Stephanie Sandler on an Osip Mandelstam poem
Professor Stephanie Sandler teaches Osip Mandelstam's "Wasps," and the power of listening.
“The Roosevelts,” and Harvard
Historian Geoffrey Ward provides a Crimson backdrop for the new Ken Burns miniseries.
Bill Haney's documentaries with social conscience
Bill Haney makes documentary films that probe social issues.
by Laura Levis