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.
For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner
Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.
John Adams’s “Klinghoffer” at Met prompts new controversy
The Metropolitan Opera cancelled plans to broadcast the opera The Death of Klinghoffer, by John Adams.
Harvard Art Museums’ director emeritus Seymour Slive dies at 93
Art historian Seymour Slive, Ar.D. ’14, dies at 93.
Cogswell's Grant, an Historic New England property, offers American artifacts
Early American artifacts help animate history.
Shakespeare e-books link text with new performances
New e-books bring Shakespeare to life.
Two classic harpsichords that Harvard owns
Two keyboards, each with a story to tell
Geoffrey Biddle takes extraordinary family photographs
Photographs that admire, probe, and “flinch from” family members.
by Steve Potter
Artist Matt Freedman’s “cancer treatment journal” about adenoid cystic carcinoma
Artist Matt Freedman ’78 confronts adenoid cystic carcinoma.
Evan Osnos on contemporary China, Age of Ambition, reviewed by Edward Steinfeld
The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation
Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island
Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”
A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words
Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words