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July 24, 2025 | Latest Issue
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Hood receives 118-piece gift from alum

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The Hood Museum announced Friday that it received a 118-piece donation of art from the children of Barbara and David Stahl ’47. The works, collected over 30 years, include drawings, paintings ceramics and an extensive set of prints ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.




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Vaughan show features classical guitar

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The stage was dimly lit, bare except for Hermann Hudde, in all black, and his guitar. The intimate, minimalist setting shone a spotlight on Hudde’s talent, inviting the audience to fully immerse themselves in his music. Hudde, a classical guitarist, performed in the Faulkner Recital Hall at the Hopkins Center on Sunday as part of the Vaughan Recital Series.


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Predictable ‘St. Vincent’ mixes schmaltz, humor

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If you took Bill Murray’s floundering, philosophical narcissist from “Lost in Translation” (2003), threw in alcoholism and a Russian prostitute, then let him desiccate into an even more pruney scumbag, you’d produce his “St. Vincent” (2014) character, Vincent.


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Alix Madigan ’84 talks filmmaking career

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Alix Madigan ’84, producer of award-winning “Winter’s Bone” (2010) and cult favorite “Smiley Face” (2007), was on campus Friday for a screening of “Laggies” (2014), her most recent film, at the Black Family Visual Arts Center.


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Barbary Coast will perform tribute concert to Sun Ra

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Audience members are primed for the trip of a lifetime, as Barbary Coast Jazz Ensemble will play a concert that delivers them to space, celebrating the influence of musician and philosopher Sun Ra on Saturday. Noted trombonist and composer Craig Harris, who once played with Sun Ra as a member of Arkestra, will join Barbary Coast on stage.


Corinne Romano '15, a studio art major and digital arts minor, has designed for the DALI lab and Tiltfactor.
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Student Spotlight: Corinne Romano '15

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Romano said she came to college confident in what she wanted to get out of the experience and has stuck to her path since freshman year. Now a senior, the studio art major and digital arts minor can reflect on her time in the arts at the College.




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Profs talk new ways to teach ‘The Bard’

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Called “The Swan of Avon,” “The Bard of Avon” or simply “The Bard,” William Shakespeare and his plays and poems remain a staple in English literary education. Dartmouth marked the 400th anniversary of the poet’s death with a symposium on Friday and Saturday in the Haldeman Center that focused on how to teach his works today.



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Waterman sculpts new work for LSC

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Gar Waterman ’78 is a Connecticut-based sculptor known for his large public sculptures. He typically works in stone, bronze, wood and glass, and his sculptures are often inspired by the natural world, especially sea life. Waterman installed “Feral Seed,” a sculpture, in the atrium of the Life Sciences Center in August.


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Visuals enchant, plot lags in ‘Book of Life’

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Vibrant, encompassing, kaleidoscopic and free-flowing: these words evoke images from “The Epic of American Civilization,” commonly known as the Orozco Mural. Its expressive richness was typical of the early 20th century’s Mexican muralism movement, spearheaded by Diego Rivera and Orozco himself. Director Jorge Gutierrez’s first animated feature film, “The Book of Life” (2014), brings muralism into the 21st century, creating a bustling, sumptuous 3-D adventure that explodes off the screen.



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Concert to feature video, collaboration

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A Saturday concert showcasing varied voices — including current and former members of Gospel Choir, the Rockapellas and Glee Club as well as former Dartmouth Idol participants — will take the place of the Gospel Choir’s traditional fall concert.


“Seen and Unseen: Picturing Race, Gender and the Enemy in WWI Posters” shows a fraction of the Hood’s collection.
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WWI poster show explores the 'unseen'

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Despite Baker Library’s notorious bustle, one cannot help but stop and notice the flashy graphics of World War I posters featured in glass cases along the entrance lobby’s walls. Behind the glass pane, a war-torn figure stands defiant amidst the blaze of a flaming battlefield. In another image, a soldier steps over the corpse of a fallen enemy. Above him, two words capture his unbroken will: “Come On!”


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Beyond the Bubble: Censoring Art

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Censorship is far from new. But the subjective assessment of what art is “acceptable” and what art is censored is a new trend. Even before censorship laws, government parties and powerful individuals suppressed what fit their definitions of “unacceptable.” Socrates had to drink poison hemlock for disseminating seditious ideas and corrupting the minds of the youth.


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Wynton Marsalis and band play Hop concert

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The Hopkins Center will celebrate jazz’s classic and vibrant sound on Monday evening when Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a 15-man touring group featuring nine-time Grammy Award-winner Wynton Marsalis, performs a concert at Spaulding Auditorium.


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Workshop encourages social justice

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“This is the year that those / who swim the border’s undertow / and shiver in boxcars / are greeted with trumpets and drums.” So begins a stanza from Martin Espada’s poem “Imagine the Angels of Bread,” which imagines a future where persons who have been historically discriminated against and disadvantaged are rewarded. On Saturday afternoon, 30 students, parents and teachers participated in a Bentley Theater workshop that used Espada’s poem to launch conversations about campus climate.