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.

Woman with long hair, smiling, wearing a black sweater, in a textured beige background.

For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

Sasha Stiles trained a chatbot on her manuscripts. Now, her poems rewrite themselves.

by Lydialyle Gibson

Made in Germany

German national identity at the Harvard Art Museums

by Olivia Farrar

Rudy Pankow and Emilia Suárez

A Modern Yet Classic Shakespeare

The A.R.T. enlivens Romeo and Juliet.

by Max J. Krupnick

five small sculptures of houses made of brass, suspended on posts and placed on the grassy shore overlooking Duxbury Bay

Among the Oyster Houses

Harvard students’ art installation nods at New England’s coastal farms.

by Lydialyle Gibson

A collage featuring, from left: a young Ogden Codman Jr. in a sepia-toned portrait; items from the Codman Estate displayed in a museum; a close-up of a chair reflecting the English Arts and Crafts movement style; and a sample of the “Brother Rabbit” textile pattern, popular between 1882-90.

Men and Their Castles

Historic New England explores the “bachelor decorators”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Beau McCall, at left, wearing Button Jacket: Born in Philly, Made in Harlem, circa 1988, and his partner, Souleo, wearing Button Jacket: Stacked Sleeves, circa early 1990s-2021

Art Made Out of Buttons

Works by Harlem-based artist Beau McCall at Brockton's Fuller Craft Museum

by Nell Porter-Brown

Collage of Chef Nisha Vora in the kitchen preparing a dish, a bowl of sticky coconut-milk-braised tofu over rice, and a plate of buttermilk-fried “chicken” with cornbread and dilly slaw.

From Harvard Law Books to Vegan Cookbooks

Nisha Vora’s vegan journey

by Claire Zulkey

A black-and-white portrait of Tomi Adeyemi, alongside the covers of her novels "Children of Blood and Bone," "Children of Anguish and Anarchy," and "Children of Virtue and Vengeance."

Harvard Author Behind Afrofuturist Trilogy “Blood and Bone”

The reality-based fantasies of novelist Tomi Adeyemi

by Lydialyle Gibson

Painting of bold purple tones reflecting experience of music

MASS MoCA Exhibition on the Experience of Jazz

Works by Jason Moran at MASS MoCA

by Nell Porter-Brown

Two MAD Magazine covers

MAD Magazine at the Norman Rockwell Museum

An illustrative retrospective at the Norman Rockwell Museum 

by Nell Porter-Brown

Tunic pattern

The Mystery Behind an Incan Tunic

Unraveling an Inca masterpiece’s secrets

by Max J. Krupnick