Beyond the Bubble: The Art of War
Sun Tzu might not appreciate the usage of the title of his military treatise in describing a trend in this week's art-related openings and events, but the application is perfectly apt.
Sun Tzu might not appreciate the usage of the title of his military treatise in describing a trend in this week's art-related openings and events, but the application is perfectly apt.
For the past week, New York City-based audiovisual artist Adam Matta has been in residency at the College visiting classes, working with graduate students and teaching beatboxing workshops to a capella groups on campus.
Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff "Portable Vision," a series of drawings and both oil and oil-stick paintings crafted by artist and studio art professor Enrico Riley '95, opened last night in the Jaffe-Friede Gallery, marking a considerable shift in the his style.
In the midst of the Year of the Arts celebration, the five 2012-2013 senior Hood Museum of Art interns have a lot to look forward to in a program that has been in place almost since the museum's opening in 1985.
"Argo" (2012), Ben Affleck's latest director-actor project, follows the 1980 joint CIA and Canadian secret service mission to rescue six American diplomats from revolutionaries in Tehran, Iran.
This week, a number of arts openings and events discuss the portrayal of sex in society, focusing on how individuals make decisions about sex amid larger societal norms and expectations.
Nathan Yeo / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The new works of four students were launched on Thursday in the first student-run exhibition in the "This Is Not a Gallery" space in the Black Family Visual Arts Center.
Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The Harlem String Quartet, an acclaimed group that bridges diverse musical genres including soul, Latin, jazz and classical, will perform at the Hopkins Center tonight to a sold-out Spaulding Auditorium.
Ensemble Basiani, a choral group from the Republic of Georgia, will perform an array of secular Georgian folk music alongside sacred Eastern Orthodox choral pieces at the Hopkins Center tonight. Composed of 12 members from various regions of Georgia, Ensemble Basiani was formed in 2000 as part of the Tbilisi Holy Trinity Cathedral Church choir.
Courtesy of StarTribune.com "This Is How You Lose Her" by Junot Diaz is not quite a love story or at least not the kind you would expect.
This week in the fine art world, a variety of events will demonstrate the prevalence of new media in contemporary art, including photography, film and installation art, challenging the dominance of traditional art forms. Celebrating the emergence of photography as fine art, the Chicago Filter Photo Festival will run through Sunday, attracting artists, educators, curators and editors from across the country.
On Friday, the multimedia spectacle "Igniting Imagination" organized in honor of the Hopkins Center's 50th Anniversary Celebration Weekend showcased the diverse artistic accomplishments of the College's students and alumni through a series of segments that included singing, dancing, theater and film.
"Seven Psychopaths" is a crazy and star-studded comedy about a struggling writer named Marty, played by Colin Farrell, looking for the inspiration to finish a screenplay.
Courtesy of the Hopkins Center Before actor John Lithgow appeared on the Spaulding Auditorium stage to perform his one-man act "Stories by Heart" on Saturday night, audience members heard his booming voice instructing them to silence their cell phones.
Catherine Treyz / The Dartmouth Senior Staff *Editor's Note: This week, five members of The Dartmouth Arts and Entertainment Staff sat down with the featured guests in this Friday's "Igniting Imagination," who will be returning to campus to celebrate the Hopkins Center's 50th Anniversary.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff The Dartmouth Dance Ensemble will debut its new show choreographed by John Heginbotham, a frequent guest artist for the Dartmouth-originated Pilobolus dance troupe in several outdoor locations on Saturday.
Even while the College celebrates its Year of the Arts and the Hopkins Center honors its 50-year history this weekend with a variety of events that spotlight our artistic alumni, actress Connie Britton '89 now the star of ABC's "Nashville," which premiered last night continues Dartmouth's artistic tradition outside of Hanover.
Maggie Rowland / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Film and media studies professor Jeffrey Ruoff's new documentary "Still Moving: Pilobolus at Forty" (2012), which will be screened at the College several times over the weekend, tells the story of a unique dance group that has stood the test of time and managed to retain its original qualities from the beginning. The contemporary dance group Pilobolus formed at Dartmouth in 1971 when a group of three male students Moses Pendleton '71, Steve Johnson '71 and Jonathan Wolken '71 signed up for a modern dance class, taught by then-dance professor Alison Chase.
With a career that includes multiple television shows, several Academy Award nominations and the contribution of some of pop culture's most referenced moments, Buck Henry '52 may just be the most successful alumnus Dartmouth has had in the arts.