Arts+Culture
Fall 2016
When Molly Bang ’65 was a Wellesley student, the idea of becoming a children’s author and illustrator seemed about as achievable as growing a magical beanstalk. But that’s exactly what she did.More
Summer 2016
Doris Holmes Eyges, lecturer emerita of English, died on Feb. 16 at the Brookhaven retirement community, in Lexington, Mass., where she had lived since 2007. She was 95. Doris was a class dean at Wellesley…More
Summer 2016
Since Cord Whitaker’s childhood, growing up in the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, and throughout his scholarship on African-American literature, medieval literature, and religion, he has been studying how the Middle Ages helped produce our understanding of race today.More
Summer 2016
Question: How do you move a fifth-century mosaic that weighs more than four tons? Answer: Verrrrrry carefully, with a lot of engineering know-how.More
Summer 2016
Did she fall, was she pushed, or did she jump? These are the questions that arise from this dramatic lithograph, Mort d’Ophélie (Death of Ophelia), by French painter and printmaker Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863).More
Summer 2016
Corinne Whitaker ’56 envisioned computer-designed sculpture well before 3-D printers arrived to revolutionize industrial production and titillate home hobbyists.More
Summer 2016
In this debut novel, Variny Yim ’90 tells the story of three generations of Cambodian women coming to terms with life in the United States after the horrific losses of the Cambodian genocide.More
Summer 2016
There is no substitute for actually visiting Philip Johnson’s Glass House in Connecticut. Just make sure to read this book before you go—you will be well prepared and ready to experience its genius loci with fresh eyes.More
Spring 2016
Coloring books for adults are having a moment: According to Publishers Weekly , sales in 2015 soared above 1.5 million. Now there’s a new title in the mix.More