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.

In Sermon, Garber Urges Harvard Community to ‘Defend and Protect’ Institutions

Harvard’s president uses traditional Memorial Church address to encourage divergent views.

by Jonathan Shaw

Alterrnative Medicine, poetry book by physician Rafael Campo

Rafael Campo, M.D., straddles medicine and metonymy.

by Stephen Burt

Recent books on reading, Bernard Berenson, neutrino hunters, and more

Recent books with Harvard connections

Seedpod photographs by Anna Laurent

Little packages of DNA that explode with beauty

by Craig Lambert

Brief life of novelist Ann Petry, by Farah Jasmine Griffin

Brief life of a celebrity-averse novelist: 1908-1997

by Farah Jasmine G...

Anita Elberse on the big business of blockbusters

In entertainment, big bets on likely winners rule.

by Craig Lambert

Robert Frost revealed in his letters

Robert Frost’s “doubleness,” revealed in his letters—and poems.

by Adam Kirsch

Joanna Hershon forays in historical fiction

Joanna Hershon marshaled period details from the 1960s

by Spencer Lee Lenfield

Tata Hall dedicated at Harvard Business School

The new executive education center at Harvard Business School was funded by Ratan Tata, former chair of the Tata Group.

Railroads’ impact in the U.S.A.: an online, HBS Baker Library exhibition

What more than 240,000 miles of railroad track can do

by Christopher Reed

Foreign Parts, a movie, records a Queens neighborhood now set for demolition

The Queens neighborhood, about to be demolished, has been documented by Harvard-affiliated filmmakers.