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A painter in a yellow safety vest smiles for the camera while standing in a warehouse. In front of them is a canvas and easel, as well as a sea of boxes.
Visual arts
The art of a second chance
Published Jan 28, 2025 Video
A new exhibition of oil paintings and photographs made by JHU students highlights the objects and associates of a second-hand furniture warehouse
Abstract art in red, yellow, green, black, white, and yellow
Rounding out the avant-garde
Published Winter 2024 Video
The inaugural exhibition of the Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, Art and Graphic Design of the European Avant-Gardes, offers a rare look at art and ephemera by artists and intellectuals, largely from Central and Eastern Europe, working to come to terms with their upturned lives after war and revolution. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Two people pose for a photo
Art+Democracy
JHU launches lecture series honoring legacy of late artist Sam Gilliam
Published Oct 21, 2024
Series will convene prominent artists and policymakers to reflect on art, academia, and public policy in Washington, D.C.
Caitlin Berry
Arts+Culture
Caitlin Berry named inaugural director of new HBC gallery
Published Aug 27, 2024
The Irene and Richard Frary Gallery, which opens in October, will feature free exhibitions exploring the intersection of arts and democracy
Abstract collection of shapes in red, black, and gray
Arts+Culture
Rare avant-garde European art to inaugurate new D.C. gallery
Published Aug 15, 2024
October grand opening of Irene and Richard Frary Gallery at Hopkins Bloomberg Center to feature several works on public view for first time in U.S.
Detail of blue tiles with white painted lines resembling clouds
Arts+Culture
A virtual guide to art at Hopkins
Published Oct 23, 2023
More than 200 works of public art at Hopkins locations in Baltimore and Washington, D.C., can now be viewed via the Bloomberg Connects app
People stand in front of a display of record sleeves and CD covers at the BMA's exhibit "The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century"
Hip-hop's indelible influence
Published Summer 2023
A Baltimore Museum of Art's exhibit celebrates hip-hop's impact on culture / Johns Hopkins Magazine
closeup of a hand sketching with charcoal
The artful mind
Published Summer 2023
In their new book, authors Susan Magsamen, founder and director of the International Arts + Mind Lab, and Ivy Ross contend that making and experiencing art can help us flourish / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Detail from a self-portrait by Victoria Yeh
ARTS
Graduating seniors receive arts prizes
Published May 20, 2019
Victoria Yeh wins Louis Sudler Prize, and Julia Zimmerman wins the President's Commendation for Achievement in the Arts
Artist hangs hand-drawn curtains
Extreme art
The writing is on the walls (and curtains)
Published April 11, 2018
Kimberly Hall explores research through an artist's eye with interactive installation created as part of the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Program