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Visual Arts

A photo of Graffiti Alley

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Spray Paint the Walls of Cambridge’s Graffiti Alley

July 10, 2021

The painting Six Crimee

Things-to-do

To Do Today: Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation at the MFA

June 3, 2021

A photo of Soundsuit by Nick Cave

Things-to-do

To Do Today: ICA Free Thursday Nights

May 27, 2021

A photo of grippers holding a piece of paper. A white video play button is overlayed.

Soft Robotics

These Soft Robotic Grippers Were Inspired by an Ancient Japanese Art Form

May 12, 2021

Shana Kilcawley (SAR’22), in Felice Amato's puppetry class, "Thinking Through Puppets"

Performance Arts

How Puppeteers Use Performance to Communicate Research

May 10, 2021

Photo of three paintings by Cailyn Masson (CFA’21) on view in the BFA Thesis Exhibition. The paintings are of various sizes and feature stripes of pastel colors that resemble sunsets.

Fine Arts

BFA Thesis Exhibition Offers Mesmerizing Look at Seniors’ Work

May 7, 2021

Mordecai’s painting, “The Sign 3, 2020, 52" x 76" oil, graphite, charcoal canvas glued to panel. It is red, violet, and white, white abstract shapes that resemble a wine glass and violin.

Visual Arts

Gallery: The Art of Ruth Mordecai (CFA’70,’80)

March 25, 2021

Composite image of two portraits of artists and researchers Joel Christian Gill (’04) (left) and Charles Suggs (’20). Gill wears a light striped suit jacket and smiles in front of a bright blue background. Suggs wears a black V-neck shirt and glasses and smiles slightly on a light blue background.

Visual Arts

Using Their Work to Tell Stories from Black History

February 10, 2021

A photo of Bernie Sanders sitting with mittens and a jacket on next to the statue of Rhett on a bench on BU Beach.

Internet Memes

The Bernie Sanders Sitting Meme’s Instant Popularity, Explained by Science

January 26, 2021

Juengling's lighting work on the Empire State Building. The skyscraper is lit up in red and white.

Arts & Culture

Lighting the World

November 20, 2020

A painting of the legs of a woman underwater as she kicks along, her legs reflected on the sand. The water around her is in shades of dark and light blue. She wears white bottoms.

Visual Arts

Gallery: Adrienne Elise Tarver (CFA’07)

November 20, 2020

A photo of fall foliage in the Boston Public Garden

Weekender

The Columbus Day Weekender: October 8 to 12

October 8, 2020

A photo of André de Quadros standing in front of Suffolk County House of Corrections

Music Education

How One BU Researcher Is Empowering Prisoners with Music

August 26, 2020

A portrait photo of Barbara Marder

Arts & Culture

The Art of Glass Enamel

August 25, 2020

A painting by Amber Vittoria

Visual Arts

Gallery: Amber Vittoria

July 7, 2020

A portrait of painter Sedrick Huckaby sitting on a bench and sketching.

Visual Arts

Extraordinary Paintings, Ordinary People: Alum Sedrick Huckaby Paints his Family on a Grand Scale

February 18, 2020

Illustration by Emily Lynn Perelman of books, pencils and and the Citgo sign in Boston.

Illustration

Otherworldly Art

February 13, 2020

Boston University computer science researchers Emily Whiting and Xiaoting Zhang pose for a portrait behind a sewing machine.

Computational Design

Fabric Gives Form to a New DIY Manufacturing Method

August 6, 2019

Visual Arts

Gallery: Julie Gratz (CFA’11)

July 9, 2019

Humanities

How the Japanese Imperial Family, the World’s Oldest Royal Line, Transcends Time

July 9, 2019

How the Japanese Imperial Family, the World’s Oldest Royal Line, Transcends Time