Arts Archives

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

In 1935, poet Langston Hughes penned the powerful appeal, “Let America Be America Again.” The poem cried out for a mislaid dream, edging close at times to despair, but never losing sight of the inherent possib 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 ›

Remaking the Humanities

July 9, 2019

| The Graduate Center

An English professor offers a critique of how we approach the humanities. Read more ›

Silhouette of mother and her two little children against starry night sky

A Mother, a Masked Intruder, and a Story That Messes With Your Mind

July 8, 2019

| Brooklyn College

A new novel, "The Need," creates a disturbing portrait of motherhood when a woman overwhelmed by the demands of her day-to-day life encounters a masked intruder in her home who seems to know all of her secrets. Read more ›

Street sign in Jackson Heights, Queens, NYC, honoring Julio Rivera: Julio Rivera corner

A Play Explores the Aftermath of a Gay Man’s Murder in Queens

June 25, 2019

| Queensborough Community College

A play dramatizes the murder of Julio Rivera, a gay Puerto Rican man in Jackson Heights, Queens. The killing was the first hate crime tried in New York State during the 1990s. Read more ›

Shadows of a group of people fall on a backdrop of bullets

Movies, Media, Myths, and Mass Shootings

June 24, 2019

| John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center

Do movies contribute to misperceptions about mass shootings? Read more ›

A Love Letter to Love

June 19, 2019

| Queens College

A book called "Hard to Love" challenges the idea that romantic relationships are the most important. Read more ›