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Faces projected on walls
Film
Virtual world, present danger
Published April 20, 2018
Extended reality film experience about nuclear fallout and Hiroshima premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
Tim Wendel
Q+A
A tale of medical underdogs
Published April 20, 2018
New memoir by JHU writer-in-residence reflects on his younger brother's cancer diagnosis and the doctors who transformed the treatment of childhood leukemia
Anthropology
Hopkins helps facilitate virtual meeting of the minds
Published April 18, 2018
Anand Pandian discusses the Society for Cultural Anthropology's biennial meeting, which will take place entirely online
Zine art: Three faceless women
Women's bodies, weaponized
Published April 11, 2018
In 'Trouble Girls' zine, senior Gillian Waldo explores women's prison protests in Northern Ireland
Dancers mid-performance
Theatre
Beneath boisterous surface, something dark
Published April 11, 2018
JHU Barnstormers stage an enchanting performance of Broadway favorite 'Pippin'
Artist hangs hand-drawn curtains
Extreme art
The writing is on the walls (and curtains)
Published April 11, 2018
Kimberly Hall explores research through an artist's eye with interactive installation created as part of the HEMI/MICA Extreme Arts Program
stack of old books
JHU Press to digitize more than 200 out-of-print books
Published April 10, 2018
Project supported by $200K grant from Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities
Half-eaten cake
Sheridan Libraries
Literature-inspired creations take the cake
Published April 9, 2018
What if a book could nourish the body as well as the soul?
Julius Eastman
Music
Julius Eastman revival comes to Peabody
Published April 9, 2018
Peabody's new music ensemble, Now Hear This, collaborates with experimental quartet Horse Lords to produce concert of relatively unknown composer
Black and white photo of artists in costume
Q+A
Body talk
Published April 4, 2018 Video
Artists-in-residence Mary Reid Kelley, Patrick Kelley on their visual language, wordplay, and the politics of language