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.

Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Toasts, Roasts Michael Keaton

The Batman actor was “encouraged as hell” by the students around him during the 2026 Man of the Year festivities.

by Schuyler Velasco

Irna Phillips, soap opera’s single mother, by Lynn Liccardo

Brief life of soap opera’s single mother: 1901-1973

by Lynn Liccardo

Karmaloop sells clothes online dealing with the 18-to-35-year-old crowd

Greg Selkoe's company sells “verge culture”-style clothing aimed at the 18-to-35 crowd.

Fashion professionals from Harvard

Designers, models, and merchants tint the fashion industry Crimson.

by Craig Lambert

Harvard alumni in the online retail business

From “flash sale” mania to renting a $10,000 Vera Wang gown, Harvard alumni are taking the world of online fashion by storm.

A video with composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10

Composer Hannah Lash, Ph.D. ’10, discusses how she forms a complex piece of music from a simple idea.

Author Toni Morrison gives 2012 Harvard Divinity School Ingersoll Lecture

The author discusses altruism and the literary imagination in the 2012 Ingersoll Lecture.

Contemporary art at Harvard Business School, thanks to Gerald W. Schwartz

An unusual art collection in an unexpected place

by John S. Rosenberg

Jane Pickering director Harvard science, culture museums

Jane Pickering appointed executive director of science, culture museums

Lincoln movie screenplay writer Tony Kushner talks with Harvard President Faust

The screenwriter speaks to the Harvard community at a private screening of the film.

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.