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 couple sitting at a park overlooking the ocean

Your Guide to Summer 2025 Along Boston Harbor

Enjoying Boston Harbor’s Renaissance this summer

by Nell Porter-Brown

Each “SmartSpace” unit will have a full-sized sofa and refrigerator, a combination washer-dryer hidden in a cabinet, a convection oven, and a hidden microwave.

Micro apartments are popping up in San Francisco and Boston

Tiny apartments are on the rise in cities like San Francisco and Boston.

Alexander Wilson’s colorful craft: a fanciful collection of waterfowl, from Harvard’s archives

Recent books by E.O. Wilson, Ezekiel Emanuel, Elliott Abrams, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

Compact apartments are proliferating in the United States. Here, artist’s renderings show how the MMNY micro-units, prefabricated in the Brooklyn Navy Yard and shipped to the East 27th Street building site, will be stacked atop each other like Lego bricks.

“My Micro NY” units were created by three Harvard GSD alumni

With micro-units, three GSD alumni hope to revolutionize apartment living in New York City.

by Laura Levis

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

The Design School celebrates the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts

Eduard Sekler opened an exhibition on the architecture of the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts with a talk on its architect.

Richard Saul Wurman

TED creator Richard Saul Wurman to speak at GSD

The TED conference creator will address degree candidates on Class Day.

Harvard's Fogg Art Museum crane disassembled

Harvard's Fogg Art Museum crane disassembled

Ann Forsyth

Harvard suburban sustainability expert rides her bike to work

The suburban sustainability expert rides her bike to work.

The four desserts—a lemon cake, a macaron, yuzu wasabi gelée with fresh grapefruit confit and mascarpone cream, and a milk-chocolate-and-hazelnut treat

French pastry chef Pierre Hermé speaks at Harvard's Graduate School of Design

Chef Pierre Hermé speaks at the GSD on the marriage of architecture and pastry.

1. An aerial rendering of the new plaza atop the Cambridge Street tunnel, looking north toward the Science Center

Harvard redesigns the Science Center Plaza for the common space initiative

A redesigned Science Center plaza will serve a new social function for the Cambridge campus.

An enlarged version of the famous bronze bust of Roosevelt created by American sculptor Jo Davidson appears at the threshold of a square, white-granite, open-air plaza.

Four Freedoms Park dedicated in New York City to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

The New York City site is the first memorial to the president in his home state.