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A colorized photo shows a man in a leather football helmet struggling with a referee to hold onto the ball
Artscape 2017
Fresh take on 'The Freshman'
Published July 14, 2017
Peabody alum Michael Britt adds organ accompaniment for 1925 slapstick silent movie starring Harold Lloyd
Image shows two broken down images. One is a disintegrating block, the other is a disintegrating tie
Broken art
Published Summer 2017
Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute's first artist-in-residence makes art out of destruction / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Illustration depicts a house with a faux-Roman colonnade, a crooked window, and various other garish add-ons like astroturf, a red convertible, and a turret
Architectural bazooka
Published Summer 2017
Blogger behind 'McMansion Hell' takes aim at American consumerism, one oversized foyer at a time / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Robert Lowell
Mood disorders
The psychologist and the mad poet
Published Summer 2017
Hopkins psychologist Kay Redfield Jamison explores the life and mental illness of poet Robert Lowell / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Molly Peacock
Poetry
Ambiguous loss
Published Summer 2017
Poet Molly Peacock processes a friend's massive stroke through her latest collection, 'The Analyst' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Coming home to Syria
Published Summer 2017
In excerpts from her new memoir, 'The Home That Was Our Country,' alum Alia Malek recounts her return to Syria in 2011—when the country began its spiral into civil war / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Mark Christian Thompson
Like an explosion
Published Summer 2017
For Mark Christian Thompson, a new reading of Franz Kafka was spurred by a single word / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Deep dive
Published Summer 2017
Book review of writing Professor Elise Levine's 'Blue Field' / Johns Hopkins Magazine
Social justice manifesto
Published Summer 2017
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Honoring an awakening
Published Summer 2017
Evergreen Museum and Library's James Archer Abbott is the new Philip F. Wagley Director and Curator—an endowed position made possible through a generous donation from Wagley's widow, Mary Frances / Johns Hopkins Magazine