Arts

Lea DeLaria brings jazz, comedy and activism in one concert

By Veronica Winham | October 12, 2018

Jazz and comedy are two very different art forms, yet they share many similarities. Both are free form and improvisational.

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Arts

Dartmouth Opera Lab kicks off with Thursday Night Live event

By Maria Hidalgo | October 11, 2018

This Thursday night at the Hopkins Center for the Arts, audiences can see a different and intimate performance of one of the most formal art forms possible: opera.

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Arts

Review: ‘Venom’ is not worth the $15 ticket, unfortunately

By James Cronin | October 9, 2018

When I was eight years old, I begged my mom for weeks to let me see “Iron Man.” I remember the excitement I felt when she finally relented and said yes.

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Arts

Review: 'Sorry to Bother You' is an insane, surrealist ride

By Joyce Lee | October 9, 2018

There’s crazy, there’s satire, there’s dystopian, and then there’s “Sorry to Bother You.” Musician Boots Riley’s 2018 directorial debut takes place in an alternative-world Oakland — but don’t let the term “alternative-world” fool you.

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Arts

New art exhibit 'The Booth' shines spotlight on student art

By Florida Huff | October 9, 2018

Across from the Hinman boxes in the Hopkins Center for the Arts stand a pair of twin phone booths, which have remained out of service and neglected for years.

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Arts

Review: Melissa McCarthy stuns in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’

By Mia Nelson | October 5, 2018

“I have a hangover that is a real museum piece,” Lee Israel writes, imitating writer Dorothy Parker in a particularly famous forgery of Parker’s letters.

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Arts

Review: ‘Negro Swan’ is a pertinent, genre-crossing masterpiece

By Madison Wilson | October 4, 2018

Is it indie pop? Techno? R&B? Hip-hop? Blood Orange’s new album “Negro Swan” revives Devonte Hynes’s genre-transcending sound with an earnest meditation on the state of those existing on the fringes of society.

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Arts

Gallery Walks: Graduate student exhibits artwork at BVAC

By Courtney McKee | October 4, 2018

Nan Darham is a graduate student in Dartmouth’s Master of Arts in Liberal Studies (MALS) program whose artwork was most recently exhibited in the Nearburg Gallery of the Black Family Visual Arts Center.

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Arts

Review: ‘BlacKkKlansman’ is eviscerating of contemporary America

By Willem Gerrish | October 2, 2018

Spike Lee’s latest film, “BlacKkKlansman” is very much a movie created for and about the current American political and racial environment.

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Arts

Review: ‘A Star is Born’ is a sparkling, devastating love story

By Jordan McDonald | October 2, 2018

Directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, and featuring pop supernova Lady Gaga, 2018’s “A Star is Born,” a remake of William Wellman’s 1937 film of the same name, breathes new life into the music drama genre.

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Arts

‘Blind Cinema’ offers new perspectives for adult audiences

By Macy Toppan | October 2, 2018

The lights go down on an audience sitting in silent anticipation, and white sparks rain down the black screen.

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Arts

Review: ‘Girl’ is a coming-of-age story based on metamorphosis

By Isabelle Blank | September 28, 2018

“Late at night, my mind would come alive with voices and stories and friends as dear to me as any in the real world.

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Arts

Montgomery Fellow Ulrike Ottinger is in residence this fall

By Madison Wilson | September 28, 2018

It’s an exciting time for film at Dartmouth: Ulrike Ottinger, the avant-garde German filmmaker, will be this fall’s Montgomery Fellow.

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Theater

Dartmouth hosts the 2018 International Black Theatre Summit

By Joyce Lee | September 27, 2018

In March of 1998, Dartmouth witnessed a historic summit on black theater, intended to address specific strategies to build and maintain black theater companies and institutions.

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Arts

Review: ‘American Vandal’ second season is as good as the first

By Jordan McDonald | September 25, 2018

A masterful and satirical take on the crime drama complex that has swept the nation, Netflix’s “American Vandal” is mysterious, delectable and utterly ridiculous.

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Arts

Review: Paul McCartney’s ‘Egypt Station’ is nostalgic and relevant

By Savannah Miller | September 25, 2018

When you have been writing and recording music since the 1960s, it should be a challenge to consistently produce new and exciting music.

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Arts

Alum Q&A: Multimedia artist Jordan Ann Craig ’15

By Lauren Pinchuk | September 25, 2018

Multimedia artist Jordan Ann Craig’15, a studio art and psychology double major, has spent her time as an artist pursuing printmaking and painting.

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Arts

Student Spotlight: Owen O’Leary ’19 directs his first production

By Elise Higgins | September 21, 2018

Owen O’Leary ’19 is taking his acting skills behind the scenes this term as he directs “Tragedy: A Tragedy,” a student production that will perform from Nov.

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Arts

Review: ‘Me Before You’ and ‘After You’ is reflective, emotional

By Ileana Sung | September 20, 2018

“You can only actually help someone who wants to be helped.” With this heartbreaking line that doesn’t easily leave the mind after the last page is turned, “Me Before You,” a novel by Jojo Moyes, and its sequel “After You” are books that make the reader reflect on their relationships and their values on life.

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Arts

Artist-in-residence Lucy Mink exhibits work at Hopkins Center

By Jordan McDonald | September 20, 2018

Painter Lucy Mink, whose exhibit opened on Tuesday, is this fall’s artist-in-residence. Known for her contemporary exploration and manipulation of the modernist style, Mink’s work has earned critical acclaim.. Mink is the recipient of a 2012 grant from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation in New York, and was awarded the 2007 Best of Show from the BAG Gallery in Brooklyn, New York.

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