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photo of piano keys
Performing arts
Key personnel
Published Fall 2024
RenĂ©e Kelsey leads a team of piano technicians charged with tuning and repairing Peabody's 300-plus pianos / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Closeup of the cover art to 'Salome Dance,' a piece of Middle East-inspired sheet music
Sheet music
Preserved to be confronted
Published Fall 2024
Special Collections' 600+ pieces of Middle East–inspired sheet music offer clues into Western perceptions of the East / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Closeup of the cover of 'The Mighty Red' by Louise Erdrich
Love's labors lost (and found)
Published Fall 2024
Louise Erdrich's The Mighty Red is an ode to both the fragility of romantic love and our natural world / Johns Hopkins Magazine
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 "183 Nov-12-07."
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