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.

Modern brick building with large windows and an entrance canopy, displaying a red banner.

Harvard Kennedy School Offers Contingency Plans for U.S. Military Applicants

Active-duty service members can defer admissions or have their applications considered at peer institutions. 

by Tamara Evdokimova

China—both a Communist Party state and a consumer society (as in this holiday street scene in Guangzhou)—is also the setting for a billion-plus citizens’ pursuit of their own dreams.

Evan Osnos on contemporary China, Age of Ambition, reviewed by Edward Steinfeld

The Chinese people’s individual acts of self-transformation

Federal Hill in Providence, Rhode Island, today, with its Roman Catholic churches

Jean's McGarry's dark fiction about a regional subculture of Rhode Island

Fiction that paints a regional subculture with “merciless realism.”

by Craig Lambert

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Designs for Paul Rudolph’s iconic, controversial Yale Art & Architecture build­ing, 1959-1961

Recent books with Harvard connections

Recent books with Harvard connections

Rebirth Brass Band

New Orleans jazz comes to Cambridge

Rebirth Brass Band plays in Cambridge.

An island overview

Peddocks Island: Hike, bike, boat, swim, fish, and camp in Boston Harbor

This Boston Harbor island offers an urban oasis.

Que Padre owner Victor Duran (top) serves Mexican and Bolivian specialties: beef <i>saltenas</i> and the &ldquo;Sonora hotdog&rdquo;&mdash;with bacon, beans, and jalape&ntilde;o sauce.

Latin American cuisine in East Boston

A diversity of Latin American food shines in East Boston.

by Nell Porter-Brown

A Tibetan woman praying at the Boudhanath Stupa, near Kathmandu

Nepal's dramatic evolution is captured in photographs

Nepalese history revealed in photographs

by Nell Porter-Brown

Advertising trade cards from the 1850s to the 1910s depict Irish immigrants&rsquo; social and economic climb from the laboring classes…

Boston's immigration trends on exhibit at Boston Public Library

A Boston Public Library exhibit illustrates immigration history.

Located in Harvard Square, the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center hosts shelves of traditional Tibetan volumes, which the organization scans, catalogues, and returns to their owners.

Harvard library stores Tibetan digital archive

Ten million pages of Tibetan literature will be stored in the library’s Digital Repository Services.

by Francesca Annic...