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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
A new exhibition of oil paintings and photographs made by JHU students highlights the objects and associates of a second-hand furniture warehouse
Christopher Cannon
Literature
Classical giant
Published Jan 23, 2025
Bloomberg Distinguished Professor Christopher Cannon makes Chaucer's complete works available in a new scholarly-yet-accessible set
Four young girls
Film
Film series launches at Hopkins Bloomberg Center
Published Jan 21, 2025
Stories That Matter series opens with Oscar shortlisted documentary film 'Daughters' on Feb. 21
Rachel Williams, a Stern Center Curatorial Fellow, works with a 17th-century “paper supercomputer” created by Italian friar Vincenzo Maria Coronelli. By twisting its wheels, users can perform complex astrological and astronomical calculations, determine Catholic feast days, and more.
Arts+Culture
Browsing through history
Published Jan 17, 2025
The Johns Hopkins Virginia Fox Stern Center for the History of the Book in the Renaissance provides many opportunities for students and researchers to gain archival experience
Photo of Lupe Fiasco
Q+A
Acclaimed rapper Lupe Fiasco joins Peabody faculty
Published Jan 7, 2025
The Grammy Award-winning artist will teach students in the Conservatory's new Hip Hop program beginning this fall
Painting of Mary Jo Salter, a woman with short hair and glasses
Q+A
What makes a poem good
Published Winter 2024
Chatting with Mary Jo Salter, the guest editor of The Best American Poetry 2024 / Johns Hopkins Magazine
An illustrated portrait of Kevin Puts
Music
A composer for our times
Published Winter 2024
Peabody composition professor Kevin Puts has won most of music's major awards. What's his next act? / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Amit Peled
Bach around the block
Published Winter 2024
Peabody cello Professor Amit Peled brings classical music lessons to Baltimore neighborhoods / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Jacob Lauinger and Meg Swaney with students
Near Eastern Studies
Dispatch from 15th century BCE
Published Winter 2024
JHU researchers investigate a recently unearthed cuneiform tablet dating back to 15th century BCE. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
A shadow of a woman ominously looming over a creek, with a house in the distance
Fiction
Rules of order
Published Winter 2024
Yvonne Battle-Felton's second novel delves into the secrets of a remote village in 1960s America / Johns Hopkins Magazine