Arts

Summer performance groups offer relaxing artistic outlet

By James Peng | August 2, 2012

While some students spend their sophomore summer swimming in the Connecticut River, sunbathing on the Green or training for upcoming pong tournaments, others take the opportunity to try something new and explore their artistic passions.

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New Hood exhibit will display Australian Aboriginal art

By Matthew McNierney | July 30, 2012

Jenny Che / The Dartmouth Staff "Crossing Cultures," an exhibition of Aboriginal Australian art from the Owen and Wagner Collection of Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art that was recently gifted to the Hood Museum of Art, will open at Dartmouth on Sept.

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Frost and Dodd Festival premieres winning student plays

By Leslie Ye | July 30, 2012

For two nights this past weekend, the playwriting talents of two Dartmouth juniors Maia Matsushita '13 and Laura Neill '13 were showcased in the annual Eleanor Frost and Ruth and Loring Dodd Student New Play Festival.

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Now Playing in Hanover: The Dark Knight Rises

By The Dartmouth Staff | July 26, 2012

The third and final installment in Christopher Nolan's Batman film trilogy, The Dark Knight Rises continues eight years after the events of The Dark Knight Rises.

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Hop previews acts and artists for upcoming Year of the Arts

By Diana Ming | July 26, 2012

From political sketch comedy to classical baroque chamber music, the upcoming 2012-2013 season at the Hopkins Center will host an impressive collection of musical acts, theater groups and performance artists, with the intention of making the Hop's 50th anniversary an unforgettable year-long celebration as part of the Year of the Arts initiative announced in June. At Wednesday's visiting artist season preview, Hop programming director Margaret Lawrence presented next year's featured acts to a packed audience of students and community members in Moore Theater. "This summer already has been a sign of great things to come," Lawrence said.

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Students perform Shakespeare in unexpected locations

By Jane Cavalier | July 23, 2012

Huddled at the center of the Green last Friday at 9 p.m., Paul Marino '04 stood with a small group of students in Theater 65: Drama in Performance, to plot their next place of attack.

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Vox Theater hopes to connect alumni and inspire students

By Lauren Sarner | July 23, 2012

People generally associate Dartmouth's strong alumni network with finance, but the recent formation of the Vox Theater Group is challenging this stereotype. Thom Pasculli '05, Kate Mulley '05 and Matthew Cohn '08 established Vox Theater, an alumni theater troupe, in February 2012.

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Now Playing in Hanover

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | July 19, 2012

Based on the novel of the same name, "Savages" is an action thriller that tells the story of California entrepreneurs and best friends Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch), who run a thriving business growing highly sought-after marijuana.

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Fair presents photos of environmental degradation

By Katie Sinclair | July 19, 2012

Spectators in Loew Auditorium were faced with paradox and ambiguity on Tuesday afternoon as they viewed images taken by photographer J Henry Fair, who specializes in taking aerial photographs of environmental damage.

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Colbert investigates black performance

By Sharla Grass | July 16, 2012

English professor Soyica Colbert's first book, "The African American Theatrical Body: Reception, Performance, and the Stage," is an intriguing exploration of the intersection of theater and the African-American experience.

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Now playing In Hanover

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | July 12, 2012

The most recent product of Woody Allen's romp in Europe, "To Rome with Love" uses both English and Italian to tell four self-contained but occasionally intermingled stories about the lives and loves of the visitors to and residents of Rome.

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HOPFest to celebrate 50 years of art at the Hopkins Center

By Katie Sinclair | July 12, 2012

On July 20, the Hopkins Center will celebrate its 50th anniversary with "HOPFest," an open-air celebration on the Dartmouth Green. The event will begin at 4 p.m.

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Ken Burns documentary on Dust Bowl to premiere at Hop

By Katie Tai | July 9, 2012

By Katie taiThe Dartmouth Staff As the heat wave continues to relentlessly bake the Midwest and Northeast regions of the United States, many students in Hanover choose to fling themselves into the river or an air-conditioned room in hope of respite.

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Hood Museum exhibits Daniel Beltra's environmental photography

By Katie Kilkenny | July 5, 2012

Felicia Schwartz / The Dartmouth Staff A ferryboat slices through turquoise water laced with black and pink, leaving red and orange waves in its wake.

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Now Playing in Hanover: Brave

By The Dartmouth Arts Staff | July 5, 2012

Set in the wild highlands of 10th-century Scotland, "Brave" tells the tale of Merida (Kelly Macdonald), a skilled archer and the free-spirited daughter of King Fergus and Queen Elinor.

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Hood curator nationally recognized

By CONNOR WATUMULL | July 2, 2012

Lesley Wellman, curator of education at the Hood Museum of Art, was named the 2012 National Museum Art Educator of the Year by the National Art Education Association in June for her contributions to museum education.

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Kawiaka wins Washington Monument redesign competition

By Kunyi Li | July 2, 2012

The winning architectural design of studio art professor Karolina Kawiaka may reimagine the grounds of the Washington Monument for the first time in 40 years.

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Work of Van Pelt '11 and De La Cruz '11 exhibited at the Hop

By Lauren Sarner | June 28, 2012

To most people, coffee grounds are not something to be hung on a wall and admired. To Max Van Pelt '11, however, they were the finishing touches to a complex piece of art. Van Pelt's mixed media sculptures, along with a series of paintings by Logan De La Cruz '11, are being displayed in a joint exhibition at the Jaffe-Friede Gallery in the Hopkins Center. The exhibition is the culminating event for the studio art department's annual Perspectives On Design Award.

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The Johnny Clegg Band returns to perform on the Green

By Katie Sinclair | June 28, 2012

Felicia Schwartz / The Dartmouth Staff Taking advantage of the newly cleared skies, the College kicked off summer term with a free concert by the Johnny Clegg Band Thursday afternoon on the Green.

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MOMIX presents abstract nature imagery through dance

By James Peng | June 25, 2012

Courtesy of Moses Pendleton / The Dartmouth Staff The illusionist dance company MOMIX's opening act set the stage for an impressive performance that projected natural beauty in abstract forms.

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