Humanities & Arts
Explore the intellectual and creative pursuits within philosophy, history, literature, and the fine arts at Harvard.
When Code Meets Canvas
In brushstrokes and bytes, a symposium at Harvard explores data, perception, and art.
by Olivia Farrar
Fernando Zóbel-Montojo
Brief life of an abstract painter: 1924-1984
by Felipe Pereda
Humanists All
What is lost in the precipitous decline of the arts and humanities
by James Engell
The Power of Plants
Exploring the “plant humanities” at Harvard’s Dumbarton Oaks
by Jonathan Shaw
George Reisner
Brief life of a pioneering Egyptologist: 1867-1942
by Peter Der Manuelian
Milman Parry
Brief life of a Homeric scholar with a big idea: 1902-1935
by Robert Kanigel
Harvard Horizons Spotlights Seven Scholars
Ph.D. students discuss subjects from aliens to infrastructural aesthetics.
by Jacob Sweet
Being Alive Together
Stephen Sondheim, Omicron, and the Power of Theater
by Robin Bernstein
Adamantios Korais
Brief life of a leader of the Greek Enlightenment: 1748-1833
by Panagiotis Roilos
The Poet of Old Age
Donald Hall, chronicler of life
by Adam Kirsch
Critique and Joy
Kevin Young’s anthology of African American poetry, from Phillis Wheatley to hip hop
by Elisa New