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Applied Motion Studies: Artists and Scientists Consider Movement features a diverse array of short films that blend artists’ creative visions with scientists’ analytical perspectives. The exhibition is open Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, from 9:30 to 3:30 p.m. through May 20.
Behind every rape kit is a survivor waiting for justice that may never come. Each day, thousands of kits containing potentially vital DNA evidence languish untested in police and crime […]
In 1998, DNA testing corroborated what family histories and the archival record had shown all along. Thomas Jefferson fathered children by Sally Hemings, an enslaved woman on the Monticello plantation. […]
D.Q. Slotkins Was it a trick of the light? A figment of your imagination? Or just a dream from which you couldn’t quite wake? The yawning terrors of the night […]
In the past few years, white supremacist appropriation of medieval symbols and imagery has become more visible than ever, from “white knight” KKK imagery to crests and shields at rallies. […]
Mohamad Hafez, Reflections What traces do lives pre- and post-war leave behind, and how do you represent the experience of forced migration? Reproducing the war-torn landscapes of contemporary Syria, Mohamad […]
Is there such a thing as the perfect crime? Can someone truly disappear without a trace? In the right hands, forensic evidence can reveal the hidden story behind a crime scene. It also can give voice to the dead, who can no longer testify about the circumstances surrounding their fate. But do the clues left […]
Who, what, when, where, why, and how? From childhood, these questions construct the foundation of knowledge gathering and problem solving. Seemingly basic, they are essential to progressing from inquiry to […]
In the last 25 years, we have displaced much of our culture, work, and recordkeeping into the digital domain. While this turn has vastly enriched many lives, it has also […]
D.Q. Slotkins, Selfie of a Young Man in Red by Circle of Raphael, c. 1505/2017 The selfie is everywhere, but in some ways, it is nothing new. Self-portraiture—for critical examination, […]
In survival and in grief, with resilience and creativity, residents of Puerto Rico and other islands continue to live through the extreme, forced reversion from the digital world to analog […]
William Bullard, Thomas A. and Margaret Dillon Family, ca. 1904, archival inkjet print 2016, Worcester Art Museum Images of the black subject—artistic, documentary, and anthropological—are forever fixed in the popular […]
