Arts & Culture
FAS Dean Outlines Preparations for Loss of Federal Funding
“To preserve our mission, we must act now,” Hoekstra says at faculty meeting
by Jonathan Shaw
Damage and Repair
Textile artist Celia Pym knits meaning into mended clothes.
by Lydialyle Gibson
Border Crossing
Author Rudy Ruiz carries on his Mexican-American family’s storytelling tradition.
by Nancy Walecki
True Crime
Helen Jewett and the origin of American murder media
by Nancy Walecki
Houghton Library Features Children’s Books in Opening Exhibit
“Animals Are Us” contextualizes Houghton’s new treasures.
by Jacob Sweet
World Premiere of esperanza spalding and Wayne Shorter’s Opera, (Iphigenia)
Two jazz legends collaborate on an operatic reimagination of a Greek tragedy.
by Nancy Walecki
“I Am Talking to the Part of You that Does Not Speak”
Artist Laurie Anderson delivers her fifth virtual Norton Lecture on Wednesday.
by Lily Scherlis
An Obligation to Dignity
Poet and lawyer—and MacArthur “genius”—Reginald Dwayne Betts on art and imprisonment
by Lydialyle Gibson
The Food Waste Problem
Emily Broad Leib combats wasted food worldwide.
by Jacob Sweet
The Art of the Portrait Painter
Jason Bouldin makes the intangible tangible.
by Lydialyle Gibson
How Myth and Memoir Intertwine
Elisabeth Sharp McKetta ’01 finds truth in the border between fact and fiction.
by Juliet Isselbacher