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April 13, 2026
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Times art expert compares pop-culture and critical views

By Joe Indvik | May 1, 2007

/ Courtesy of New York Public Library "We're all little Caesars expecting tribute, expecting exhibitions that come to us 50 [masterpieces] at a time," Michael Kimmelman said during his lecture entitled "From Wonder Cabinet to Department Store: Thoughts on the American Museum" at the Loew Auditorium last Friday evening. The head art critic of the New York Times and former Dartmouth professor delivered an energetic commentary on the origin and destiny of the museum in American society. Full of high-strung denunciations of museums around the world in typical art critic fashion, Kimmelman's comedic barrage of criticisms ultimately revealed something deeper about the philosophy of art in American society. He kicked off the lecture with a virtual tour (via PowerPoint) of the Roman galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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Book Arts gives artistic satisfaction -- and fun final product

By Erin Choo | April 30, 2007

It was my first time participating in the Book Arts workshop's open bindery studio, and all I knew about what to expect was that the project of the week was the "venetian blind book," described on the workshop's website as a "fun and versatile book that will delight the beholder, as if opening your blinds to a new day and a fresh beginning." Well, okay.

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Class Divide attempts to instigate tough discussion

By Erin Choo | April 23, 2007

Class issues have always interested Lisel Murdock '09. Even as a teenager in Washington state, she was observant of the divides that existed between fellow students; the concept of "some people having to work so much more than others" was both fascinating and troubling to her. Now, as a sociology major and Class Divide Intern for the Hopkins Center, she has put together the Class Divide Student Creative Project - collections of photographs, paintings, stories and poems from different student artists that examine economic and social class.

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Two bands rock FNR for prospies

By Meredith Fraser | April 19, 2007

The tiny lights of FUEL will twinkle especially for the prospective members of the Class of 2011 this Friday, when Friday Night Rock will host both Enon and The Dirty Projectors.

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Water, phallic symbols featured in DDE's 'Cistern'

By Matthew Ritger | April 16, 2007

Ryan Yuk / The Dartmouth Staff When the stage went dark about halfway through the show and the dancers returned equipped with strap-on dildo contraptions, I said to myself, now this is my kind of dance! The dildos, which director Ford Evans referred to as "a moment of levity" during a post-performance discussion, were inspired by the practices of French farmers, who use one-legged strap-on stools to sit on while milking cows.

Rose McGowan shows off her assets as Cherry, a stripper-turned vigilante in Robert Rodriguez's
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Blood, boobs and bad guys fill the screen in 'Grindhouse'

By Dylan Hume | April 12, 2007

Courtesy of Rotten Tomatoes Let me begin by saying this: If you go see "Grindhouse" expecting two plotless, gore-filled excuses for movies, well ... you'll be satisfied, more or less, but you'd be missing the point. I went into "Grindhouse" expecting nothing.

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