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Arts+Culture

Ronald Paulson
In memoriam
Literary scholar Ronald Paulson dies at 94
Published Sept 10, 2024
Paulson questioned assumptions throughout his career about the role and power of art, and how cultural developments changed how art was perceived
George M. Wilson
In memoriam
George M. Wilson, philosopher of aesthetics who spent 28 years at Johns Hopkins, dies
Published Aug 28, 2024
Wilson, who left JHU in 2000, specialized in the philosophy of film, theory of action, philosophy of language, and the work of Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein
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
Four panelists
Johns Hopkins hosts leaders of Smithsonian, Library of Congress, National Archives
Published Aug 2, 2024
University hosts pioneering panel discussion on how our cultural institutions help safeguard democracy
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