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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
Abstract art in red, yellow, green, black, white, and yellow
Rounding out the avant-garde
Published Winter 2024
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
cover of 'The Widow's Crayon Box's features colorful scribbles
Poetry
Varied hues of grief
Published Winter 2024
Molly Peacock's latest poetry collection is a sensual and sad ode to her late husband / Johns Hopkins Magazine
black and white photograph of Larzer Ziff
In memoriam
Former English professor and literature scholar Larzer Ziff dies at 97
Published Dec 2, 2024
Ziff, who taught in the English Department for nearly two decades, is remembered for his generous mentorship and influential scholarship
Jacob Lauinger and Meg Swaney with students
Undergraduate education
History in the making
Published Dec 2, 2024
Students in a Near Eastern Studies First Year Seminar try their hand at creating replicas of cuneiform tablets
A print of Picasso's portrait of Gertrude Stein on display at Peabody Library
Arts+culture
The Stein way
Published Nov 14, 2024
Sheridan Libraries exhibit explores the many facets of modernist matriarch Gertrude Stein
An artists' panel discussion for "Bearing Witness: Photographing Black Families in Baltimore" in September
A celebration of Inheritance Baltimore
Published Nov 12, 2024
Through panels, performances, and showcases, Inheritance Baltimore partners will share highlights and lessons from the past four years
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.
Latoya M. Hobbs with her painting "Sistership"
Arts+culture
Two paintings join Hopkins' growing collection of contemporary art
Published Oct 16, 2024
The Bloomberg School of Public Health is the new home for two paintings by Baltimore artists Latoya M. Hobbs and Ernest Shaw Jr.
Michael Hersch
Opera
Michael Hersch turns to poetry as inspiration for latest work
Published Oct 8, 2024
New opera from the acclaimed Peabody composer, 'and we, each,' draws from the verse of poet Shane McCrae and his haunting explorations of the 'vast territories of human expression and experience'