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 robotic arm interacting with an underwater object on the ocean floor.

Five Questions with Peter R. Girguis

A Harvard professor of evolutionary biology on what lurks in the deep sea  

by Olivia Farrar

An excerpt from "Uncertain Justice: The Roberts Court and the Constitution"

In Uncertain Justice, Laurence Tribe and Joshua Matz examine the current Supreme Court.

Chef/owner Alex Crabb shares the open kitchen with fellow cooks Tyson Wardwell and Nathan “Lazer” Phinisee.

In Boston, Asta's diners stop, eat—and get excited

Boston’s Asta is a tasty adventure

by Nell Porter-Brown

Designers picked through thousands of swatches to find the Italian lace for this gown worn by actress Jeanna de Waal, who plays Mary Barrie in Finding Neverland.

Finding Neverland at Harvard's American Repertory Theater

The ART launches a sumptuous world premiere of Finding Neverland

by Nell Porter-Brown

Traditional artisans, such as spinners, demonstrate their skills at Strawbery Banke.

Fall travel to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, for history, art, biking

Fall travel to New England’s seacoast offers art, history, biking, and great restaurants

Concert music soars at the Gardner Museum’s Calderwood Hall

A Far Cry performs at the Gardner Museum

Boston’s chamber orchestra A Far Cry merges genres at the Gardner Museum.

Meandering paths at Fairsted, the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

Where Frederick Law Olmsted lived his last good years

The last home and private garden of Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of modern landscape architecture

by Nell Porter-Brown

Parkman circa 1890. His vocation and avocation, history and horticulture, both sprang from his passion for nature and “the American forest.”

Brief life of America’s epic historian Francis Parkman, by Castle Freeman

Brief life of America’s epic historian: 1823-1893

In the play-within-a-play, Peter Pan (Melanie Moore) takes the place of honor.

"Finding Neverland" at the ART recasts the story of Peter Pan and J.M. Barrie

The new musical Finding Neverland at the American Repertory Theater once again revives the myth of Peter Pan and his creator, J.M. Barrie.

The big production number “What You Want,” from the London production of <i>Legally Blonde</i>

“Legally Blonde” composer-lyricists Nell Benjamin and Laurence O’Keefe profiled

Musicals by Benjamin and O’Keefe excite Broadway.

by Dick Friedman

Ram Venkateswaran, of the HMS class of 2017, performs in the Tosteson Medical Education Center’s atrium last spring. He and pianist Chris Lim, HMS ’16, offered a joint program: “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (Fauré); “<i>Sicilienne</i>” (von Paradis); “Spanish Dance” (Granados/Kreisler); and <i>“Widmung</i>” (Schumann/Liszt).

Music and medicine converge at Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School turns to the humanities.

by Karolina Brook