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Emily Chan ’16
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Emily Chan ’16
On Thursday, students, faculty and members of the Dartmouth community gathered in the Treasure Room in Baker Library — a space with books lining the walls and light filtering in through stained glass windows — for the Benjamin F. Barge and Class of 1866 Prizes for Oratory Speech contest, an annual event celebrating the oratory arts within the Institute for Writing and Rhetoric.
By engaging with students through the virtual screen during the College’s first massive online open course, “Introduction to Environmental Science,” environmental studies professor and course lead Andrew Friedland said that he and his team frequently found themselves surprised by the universality of environmental science, despite students’ varied perspectives.
Documentary filmmaker and producer Ken Burns is renowned for his unique ability to deliver history to our screens, pairing a rich cultural understanding of America’s past with gripping drama. Over the years, Burns has repeatedly visited the College, most recently screening his third episode of “The Roosevelts” at the Hopkins Center on July 13.
Bringing his signature arrangement of curiously synthesized plucks, loops and whistles to Hanover, Andrew Bird and the Hands of Glory will perform at Spaulding Auditorium on Thursday. Joined by Jimbo Mathus and the Tri-State Coalition, the two artists will appear within the Hopkins Center’s summer music series.
Seamless and organic, Ricardo Lemvo and his Los Angeles-based band Makina Loca blend together different music styles found across the world — transcending any single culture, time, place or creed. Lemvo and Makina Loca will come to campus for the first time to play a free concert on the Green at 5 p.m. Thursday. The band features rhythms inspired by Africa and Cuba with a pan-African sound.
When Cornelius Gurlitt, now 81 years old, traveled across the Swiss border by train in 2010, a routine customs check led to an incredible find. The son of a prominent Nazi was traveling with 9,000 euros, prompting a police investigation that ended with the discovery of a priceless collection of drawings and paintings allegedly taken from war-torn Germany.
On Feb. 3, Brooklyn artist Tony Matelli’s lifelike sculpture “Sleepwalker” was installed outside of Wellesley College’s campus museum to promote the artist’s show, “New Gravity,” which will run through July. The sculpture features a middle-aged man in tight white underwear briefs, with eyes closed and arms outstretched like he is sleepwalking. After its installation, students circulated a petition demanding the sculpture’s removal.
In the wee hours of March 18, 1990, two men disguised as police officers executed the largest art heist in history. In total, the men made off with works by Degas, Manet, Rembrandt and Vermeer, tearing paintings off the walls or slicing canvases from their frames.
Some of the most beautiful buildings in the world are home to the most beautiful works of art. The Getty in Los Angeles, the Guggenheim in New York and the Louvre in Paris all come to mind. Perhaps this is why critics and architects jumped to their feet when the Museum of Modern Art recently announced last Wednesday that it would raze the American Folk Art Museum in New York City.
Perich, who has created a series of musical compositions, is known for his avant-garde sound art, and the work is part of his fall exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art.
It all began one summer night this past July when Victoria Li '16's adventures as a food blogger first took off.
The historic building was recently renovated as part of a community project to bolster the local economy, and redirect attention to the arts by featuring well-known performers in an intimate locale.
Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through 2014, the position was established in 2011 to promote classical music on campus and collect data as part of a multi-college study on student engagement with the performing arts.
With more than 14 works scattered across campus, students are bound to come across a piece on their daily walking routes, even if they do not pass through the Hood Museum's doors.
Newly recognized by the Council on Student Organizations, the group organized its first campus fashion show on May 10 in Collis Common Ground. The show, titled "Seven Deadly Sins," featured pieces designed by council members.
The unusual art form, also known as graffiti knitting or guerrilla knitting, uses knitted pieces to cover areas or objects in a community. In recent years, yarnbombing has become popular in metropolitan hot spots of the world, from Paris to New York. Popular yarnbombing targets include parking meters, bike rails, potholes, tree trunks and even famous statues.
Several jewelry and metalsmithing master classes will be held in the studio, focusing on techniques such as enameling and soldering. The symposium will culminate in a presentation and discussion moderated by local metalsmith Paulette Werger. The studio will host a full day workshop with the guest artists, who said they look forward to leading workshops teaching skills in their respective specialties.
"If I knew there was going to be a show with Asian characters, I went out of my way not to watch it," Hwang said. "Even as a child, I'd feel that the depictions of Asians, of people who looked like me, were categorized as inhuman. They didn't seem like human beings."
The set-up of the play is remarkably simple. "Confessions" is a one-woman dark comedy starring an unnamed girl (Lecocq), acted entirely on one set. As seemingly one-dimensional as the play is set up, the storyline proved evocative and multi-layered, challenging audience members to explore the main character's mind as she narrates through the eventful moments of her life.