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.

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For This Poet, AI is a Writing Partner

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

by Lydialyle Gibson

Nick Wyman (on the set of <i>The Single Girls Guide)</i> promotes fair pay for hard-working actors.

Nick Wyman promotes the arts as president of Actors' Equity Association

A Broadway actor on the “true spark of theater”

by Nell Porter-Brown

Martin Puchner

Martin Puchner, author and professor of drama and of English

The English professor has already written three books and edited the 6,000-page third edition of the Norton Anthology of World Literature.

A correspondence corner for not-so-famous lost words

Correspondence on not-so-famous lost words

Distinguished couple: Professor Louis Agassiz, ever the scientist, ever the creationist, despite the evidence for Darwinian evolution, and Elizabeth (Cary) Agassiz, who emerges impressively from the last chapter of this new biography

Christoph Irmscher biography of Louis Agassiz reviewed by James Hanken

The fruitful, flawed Louis Agassiz

by James Hanken

Alexander Wilson&rsquo;s colorful craft: a fanciful collection of waterfowl, from Harvard&rsquo;s archives

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

Recent books with Harvard connections

Filmmaker Julie Mallozzi intercut scenes of Lalita Bharvani at home, tending to her garden or doing yoga, with startling images of x-rays and medical tests, including an echocardiogram. One poignant scene shows Bharvani visiting her elderly mother in India.

Julie Mallozzi's film Indelible Lalita tells a medical and spiritual story

Indelible Lalita’s saga of pigmentation and personhood

by Laura Levis

Independence Day, 1942: the first field test of napalm, behind Harvard Business School

History of napalm origins at Harvard

A new book traces napalm's invention to Harvard—and its evolution from heroic discovery to pariah

The writer at work: Soman Chainani in his Brooklyn apartment

Soman Chainani's new fantasy-adventure novel is a fairy tale for today’s world

A fairy tale for today’s world

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

This posthumous 2007 portrait, by Stephen Coit ’71, M.B.A. ’77, was commissioned by the Harvard Foundation four decades after Monro left Harvard for Miles College.

John U. Monro, activist educator, by Toni-Lee Capossela

Brief life of an uncommon educator: 1912-2002

by Toni-Lee Capossela