Arts

Review: “The Front Runner” asks about the cost of accountability

By Mia Nelson | October 16, 2018

“The Front Runner” directed by Jason Reitman of “Juno,” “Up in the Air” and “Tully,” stars Hugh Jackman as U.S.

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Arts

“In the Last Days of the City” captures the essence of Cairo

By Madison Wilson | October 16, 2018

Is it possible to capture the essence of a city in a film? Director Tamer El Said’s film “In the Last Days of the City” attempts to do just that.

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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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