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December 18, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Artist-in-residence Linda Matalon recently opened her ninth individual exhibition.
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Artist-in-residence Matalon displays 30-year art survey

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Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Artist-in-residence Linda Matalon would love for a museum to acquire one of her wax and graphite drawings or mixed media sculptures, but for now she is pleased with the 30-year survey of her works currently on display in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery through Oct.





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Rising in fame, Filligar begins East Coast tour this fall

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Comprised of three Dartmouth alumni and their longtime friend, the band Filligar will bring its dynamic and vibrant musical talents back to the Eastern Seaboard over the next month, coming off the heels of its California tour. Filligar is a four-member band consisting of recent Dartmouth graduates and brothers Johnny Mathias '11, Teddy Mathias '09 and Pete Mathias '09, and they are joined by their close friend Casey Gibson. Their tour kicked off yesterday in Towson, Md., and they have a performance today in Woodstock, N.Y.


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Beyond the Bubble: Idealized Past

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"A flaw in the romantic imagination" is how Woody Allen defined nostalgia in "Midnight in Paris"w (2011). This week, we see an attempt to trump such quixotism with the premiere of the BBC's "Call the Midwife," a British export that premiered last night. Overlapping with the third season of "Downton Abbey" which will premiere in the United States in January "Midwife" takes post-World War II Britain from the hallways of an earl's estate to the slums of London's East End.




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Music department offers community service option for majors

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Christina Chen / The Dartmouth Staff This year, music majors at the College are being invited to participate in a new culminating experience consisting of a three-day program in New York City, a recital showcasing all seniors who wish to perform and two to four distinct community service activities. Music professor Steven Swayne, who came up with the idea for the new culminating experience, said that the "mini-FSP" to New York City will take place April 5-7.



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‘Charting the Universe' spotlights scientific instruments

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Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Inspired by the painting "Portrait of a Lady as an Astronomer," Kresge Library's "Charting the Universe" exhibit, which is on display in Fairchild Hall, draws on objects from Dartmouth's King Collection of Historic Scientific Instruments to showcase the tools that contribute to our visual understanding of the universe. Elizabeth Neill '13 assembled the exhibit under the guidance of history professor Richard Kremer, who is the curator of Dartmouth's King Collection, during her James O.


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Hood opens Aboriginal art exhibit ‘Crossing Cultures'

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Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Hood Museum opened its main exhibit for the year on Friday, titled "Crossing Cultures: The Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art." The show features over 100 works by contemporary indigenous artists from around the Australian continent, including bright acrylic works from the western and central deserts, muted ochre-toned paintings from the Tiwi Islands, Warmun and Arnhem Land and politically-oriented photographs from younger, emerging artists living in Australian cities. "Crossing Cultures" is the third exhibit of Aboriginal Australian art to premier at the Hood since 2006, according to exhibit curator Stephen Gilchrist, a former curator of indigenous art at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and a visiting professor in the art history department.


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Handspring Puppet Company performs adaptation of ‘Woyzeck'

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From the first loud bellows of the larger-than-life character of the Barker, the only humanoid puppet featured in the puppet adaptation of George Buchner's play "Woyzeck on the Highveld," the Handspring Puppet Company captivated its audience, drawing attention and bringing intensity to the puppet-driven adaptation of the iconic play. This version of the play transports "Woyzeck on the Highveld" from 19th-century Prussia to 1950s South Africa.



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Beyond the Bubble: G-g-generations

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The saying "out with the old, in with the new" does not translate well into the arts recently, we've instead been seeing a preference for balance between both the new and the old. Generations will come face to face in the film "Looper" (2012), starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Bruce Willis, which follows a futuristic dual between one's younger and older self when an assassin's future self is transported back in time.


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Scott returns to the ‘Alien' franchise with sci-fi ‘Prometheus'

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Courtesy of The Guardian Over 30 years after relatively unknown filmmaker Ridley Scott exploded into the public consciousness with his second film "Alien" (1979), he returns to the franchise with "Prometheus" (2012). "Alien," dark, realistic, gritty and terrifying, was the complete opposite of the sci-fi epic "Star Wars" (1977), which had debuted just two years earlier.


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‘Conning Harvard' chronicles a student's deceitful admission

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Current Harvard University student and managing editor of The Harvard Crimson Julie Zauzmer's new book "Conning Harvard" chronicles the deceptive escapades of Harvard student Adam Wheeler. Wheeler, who pleaded guilty to 20 counts of larceny in 2010, faked his way into multiple top-tier schools before he was ultimately discovered mere minutes before he would have received a Rhodes Scholar endorsement.




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