Arts Archives

A dilapidated log cabin is pictured in Arizona amid dry scrub brush against a backdrop of pale purple mountains

New Take on the Old West in Tea Obreht’s Acclaimed Novel ‘Inland’

October 15, 2019

A critically acclaimed new book by Tea Obreht, who teaches at Hunter College, reimagines the classic Western novel with a camel-wrangling orphaned immigrant and an Arizona frontierswoman. Read more ›

Impressionistic portrait of a man in a tropical-design shirt playing steel drums

Carnival in Trinidad, a Brooklyn Parade, and the Birth of Soca Music

October 14, 2019

| Brooklyn College, The Graduate Center

A new book looks at how Brooklyn's West Indian Day parade and its connections to Carnival in Trinidad nurtured the emergence of soca music. Read more ›

A laptop screen displays a visual digitization while a pair of hands are seen in the foreground and a copy of "Debates in the Digital Humanities" is seen in the background.

Digital Humanities: The Future and the Challenges

October 7, 2019

| City Tech, Queens College, The Graduate Center

A book called "Debates in the Digital Humanities" looks at the future and challenges in this emerging field. Read more ›

View of elevated railway in Queens, New York City, USA

A Poetic Tribute to Queens

September 26, 2019

| Queens College

A new book of poems pays tribute to the diversity of Queens. Read more ›

Trees are shown in a black and white view of earthworks at Fort Gadsden, a historic site in Franklin County, Florida

The 1619 Project: A Poem Reveals Hidden History

August 23, 2019

| College of Staten Island, The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet commemorates a terrible event from U.S. history as part of The New York Times' "1619 Project." Read more ›

cover of Ryan Keberle's jazz album "The Hope I Hold" depicting 5 faces as the roots of a tree

A Jazz Musician’s ‘Hope,’ Inspired by Poet Langston Hughes

August 20, 2019

| Hunter College

A Langston Hughes poem inspires a jazz album. Read more ›

Actor Kevin Bacon and his brother Michael, who play together in a band called the Bacon Brothers

The Fabulous Bacon Brothers’ Sizzling New Song

August 14, 2019

| Lehman College

Actor Kevin Bacon and his brother, Michael Bacon, who's a music professor and Emmy Award-winning composer, play together in a band and have a new song and music video called "Play!" Read more ›

A scene from the opera "No Ladies in the Lady's Book," which seeks to restore the stories of women to the history of people who contributed to the building of the transcontinental railroad.

She’s Been Working on the Railroad: Opera Restores Women to History

July 29, 2019

| LaGuardia Community College

A new opera restores women's stories to their rightful place in the history of the transcontinental railroad. Read more ›

How Silent Films Inspired Early Modern Art

July 18, 2019

| The Graduate Center

A new book explores the relationship between early iterations of film and modern art. Read more ›