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A young adult in a face mask breakdances onstage. Their feet are up in the air.
2024 Olympics
What to expect from breakdancing at the Olympics
Published July 22, 2024
An athletic art form from the Bronx will go global this summer as some of the world's best breakers battle for gold at the Summer Games in Paris
Three men stand in an underground tunnel in 1907. A note written on the image reads
Baltimore history
The ghost river under Homewood
Published July 15, 2024
A public installation by local artist Bruce Willen traces a buried stream, which used to define the North Baltimore landscape, which now includes the university's 140-acre campus
A highly decorative hand-embroidered tapestry, or sampler, on display at Baltimore’s St. James Episcopal Church
Community
Threads of history
Published July 1, 2024
Johns Hopkins' Inheritance Baltimore effort helps return a 19th-century embroidered sampler to a Black Baltimore church in time to celebrate its 200th anniversary
Bees from Julia Burdick-Will's hives
Buzzworthy
Beekeeping with Julia Burdick-Will
Published June 21, 2024
An associate professor in the Department of Sociology shares her apian affinity
Synchronized swimmers in water
Swimming in synch
Published Summer 2024
A new book by Vicki Valosik, 'Swimming Pretty,' probes the push and pull between art and athletics as it chronicles the untold story of women in water. / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Leslie King Hammond
Alumni profile
The way maker
Published Summer 2024
Art historian Leslie King Hammond, A&S '73 (MA), '75 (PhD), reflects on her life spent championing Black and women artists—and a 1988 exhibit that jolted the art world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration of four sisters looking at the camera as they're being filmed by video cameras
The sisterhood
Published Summer 2024
With 'Tehrangeles,' writer Porochista Khakpour explores reality television, sisterhood, and sketchy ayahuasca shamans / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Poetry
Ode to the Mother's Hands
Published Summer 2024
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SHAN Wallace speaks at the installation of her photographs at the School of Nursing
Arts+culture
Art finds a new home at Nursing
Published June 17, 2024
Two black and white photographs by Baltimore artist SHAN Wallace are now on display at the School of Nursing—the debut location for the university's new public art initiative
Blue skies with bright white clouds, looking up toward the Gilman Hall clock tower
Art + Mind
Baltimore writers to help scientists learn how brain processes stories
Published June 12, 2024
Winners of a new Baltimore writing contest will help Johns Hopkins University neuroscientists learn what happens in the brain when people read stories; deadline extended to July 31