Arts & Culture

Alexander Heffner and Governor Maura Healey

Alumni Profiles |

Breaking Bread

Alexander Heffner ’12 plumbs the state of democracy.

by Jack R. Trapanick

University News |

The Untold Story of Watercolors

Harvard Art Museums' exhibit highlights unsung facets of American watercolor.

by Nancy Walecki

Harvard Art Museums, view of the galleries and conservation labs that surround the Calderwood Courtyard.

University News |

Harvard Art Museums Now Admission-Free

The new policy includes all visitors, effective immediately.  

by John S. Rosenberg

Performing & Recorded Arts |

Behind the Curtain of A.R.T.’s “Evita”

A revived production for a new era

by Ryan Doan-Nguyen

Poster for Dos farkishefte shnayderl (the bewitched little tailor) in Paris, c. 1935

Treasure | July-August 2023

Charades with Chutzpah

Harvard’s Yiddish Theater Collection

by Max J. Krupnick

Watercolor painting of alligators in a swamp

Harvard Squared | July-August 2023

Master Watercolorists

Works by Sargent, Homer, and others at the Worcester Art Museum

by Nell Porter Brown

Photograph of stone bridge over a pond in a park

Harvard Squared | July-August 2023

Happenings in Hartford

Literary legacies, parks, festivals—and more

by Nell Porter Brown

Octopus on floor of flooded Southeastern Florida parking garage

Montage | July-August 2023

“You Need to Move”

A vivid account of climate change and resilience

Two women seated looking into the film camera, from Japanese film Tokyo Story

Harvard Squared | July-August 2023

Films by a Japanese Master

The Harvard Film Archive’s “Complete Ozu Yasujirō”

by Nell Porter Brown

Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait of General Burgoyne

Montage | July-August 2023

Off the Shelf

Recent books with Harvard connections

Gram Parsons stands in front of a bus in Harvard Square

Features | July-August 2023

Sound as Ever

Gram Parsons and Harvard’s hand in country rock

by Nancy Walecki