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Art history lecture explores “Olympia”

By Maya Poddar | February 11, 2014

n the foreground of Edouard Manet’s noted 1863 painting “Olympia,” a nude, white woman lies across a bed, and some art historians do not concentrate on the African maid delivering flowers in the background. Tuesday, however, University of California at Berkeley professor Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby spoke about the maid’s social significance in the annual Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture. Grigsby, an art history professor who specializes in French visual and material art and colonialism’s influence on works, said she is concerned with the piece’s racial, colonial and societal overtones.

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“Voices” emphasizes inclusivity, storytelling

By Kira Witkin | February 11, 2014

Addressing criticisms that the Vagina Monologues do not speak to some women’s experiences, V-February organizers added “Voices: An Original Production” to this year’s lineup in an attempt to make the programming more inclusive. The performance will showcase personal stories of self-identified women at Dartmouth through original monologues, poems and stream of consciousness recitations. The “V” in the College’s 16th annual V-February stands for “voices.” In previous years, event organizers have used the themes of victory, violence and vaginas for the program.

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Talene Monahon '13 makes off-Broadway debut

By Michaela Ledoux | February 10, 2014

Fresh out of Hanover, Talene Monahon ’13 was recently cast in the “The Chocolate Show!”, an off-Broadway musical that will open on Friday. At Dartmouth, Monahon played a starring role in the College’s production of “Angels in America” in fall 2012 and produced and acted in an original solo show titled “All in Good Fun” last spring. She also acted at the New London Barn Playhouse and the Northern Stage in White River Junction.

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Student Spotlight: Lanphord Cao '16

By Hallie Huffaker | February 10, 2014

Lanphord Cao ’16 has played music for as long as he can remember. Growing up in China, he took up classical piano at age 7. Yet, as he began listening to more rock, pop and hip-hop artists at the age of 15, he switched to writing and playing modern music, he said.

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Frame of Reference

By Laura Sim | February 9, 2014

On Feb. 3, Brooklyn artist Tony Matelli’s lifelike sculpture “Sleepwalker” was installed outside of Wellesley College’s campus museum to promote the artist’s show, “New Gravity,” which will run through July. The sculpture features a middle-aged man in tight white underwear briefs, with eyes closed and arms outstretched like he is sleepwalking. After its installation, students circulated a petition demanding the sculpture’s removal.

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VAC to display five Houser sculptures

By Apoorva Dixit | February 9, 2014

Louise Bourgeois’s “Crouching Spider,” the giant stainless steel sculpture displayed outside of the Black Family Visual Arts Center, will take leave this spring. After a yearlong loan to the College by the Bourgeois family estate, the nearly 9-foot tall sculpture will be replaced by five sculptures constructed by Allan Houser, one of the best-known Native American artists of the 20th century. The five sculptures, which will be on loan for a year, include Houser’s Native American artwork and more abstract, modernist pieces.

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Behind the Curtain: The Evans Map Room

By Marley Marius | February 9, 2014

The next time you find yourself studying on second-floor Berry, make a point of visiting the Evans Map Room. First established in the 1920s by College librarian Nathaniel Goodrich, Dartmouth’s collection of maps was inspired by his work with the Army’s map department and his fondness for travel. In 1946, the collection became the Dartmouth Map Library when a wealth of materials from the Army Map Service, the Department of Defense’s mapmaking agency, were given to the College after World War II.

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‘Philomena’ brings depth to tough issues

By Varun Bhuchar | February 9, 2014

“Philomena” (2013) is a film marketed as a comedy that unexpectedly ends as an uplifting tearjerker.

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Guest artists to swing in Carnival with help of Barbary Coast

By Marley Marius | February 5, 2014

British Columbia natives and popular jazz musicians Ingrid and Christine Jensen will join director Donald Glasgo and his Barbary Coast Jazz ensemble to kick off the 38th annual Winter Carnival Concert this Saturday.

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Behind the Curtain: ORL Art Acquisition Program

By Katherine McConnell | February 4, 2014

For the first half of freshman year, Tyler Rivera ’16 refused to work in French Hall’s study room. Not only was it a tiny, humid alcove squeezed next to the laundry room in a dormitory basement, but its walls were bland. When he walked by the room in the spring, however, it had gone through a transformation. Three large student paintings adorned the walls, artwork which brightened up the study space and “made it feel homely,” Rivera said. For the first time, Rivera felt invited to study. The artwork was installed by the Office of Residential Life, which has worked with the Class of 1960 since 1991 to purchase art from graduating studio art majors, rejuvenating study rooms and living areas. The program installed 19 pieces around campus in 2013.

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Architect to discuss work in digital fabrication

By Hallie Huffaker | February 4, 2014

An eight-foot diameter sphere rests in the Redwood Grove at the University of California Botanical Garden, a mysterious concrete ball made up of a dozen pentagonal pieces and etched with crevices and protrusions. “The Seed,” hiding within the grove, embodies the wonder and fertility of the trees. Architect Andrew Kudless breaches every boundary in his path to create a new kind of architecture that draws from nature for inspiration. On Friday, he will share his insights as a speaker in the second annual Victor C. Mahler 1954 Visiting Architects lecture series, which brings distinguished and innovative architects to campus.

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Idol Semifinals see 30 student singers

By Aimee Sung | February 3, 2014

Tonight, 30 of the College’s best singers will compete in the semifinals of Dartmouth’s seventh annual Dartmouth Idol contest. The competition, first brought to the College by Gospel Choir director Walt Cunningham, has grown in scale over recent years, with 25 semifinalists performing in 2013 and 23 in 2012.

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Student Spotlight: Elizabeth Niehaus ’14

By Dongjun Suh | February 3, 2014

One summer day during high school, Elizabeth Niehaus ’14 discovered her passion for art while in a British museum, after staring at a painting for 30 minutes. “In that moment, I realized how much meaning there is if you truly dedicate the time,” she said. “It may sound boring, but new ideas, new connections and new meanings just keep coming up to you.”

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Performers race through 30 plays in 60 minutes in Play Space show

By Apoorva Dixit | February 2, 2014

From the moment audience members descended the stairs to the Bentley Theater on Saturday to the final time they heard performers shout, “Curtain,” “Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind,” an interactive performance of 30 plays in 60 minutes, proved a clever and hilarious experience.

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Richman ’92 edits award-winning docs

By Maya Poddar | February 2, 2014

A Q&A with Woody Richman ’92, a film editor who specializes in documentary film. He has worked with director Michael Moore as an editor for “Capitalism: A Love Story” (2009), “Fahrenheit 9/11” (2004) and “Bowling for Columbine” (2002) and recently edited the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “How to Survive a Plague” (2012).

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Alumni groups promote arts careers, internships

By Angel Carrillo Leal | February 2, 2014

The Center for Professional Development and alumni groups like Dartmouth Alumni in Entertainment and Media are working to expand opportunities for students interested in the arts.

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Hop simulcasts live production

By Maya Poddar | January 29, 2014

Hours after the National Theatre performs Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus” this afternoon, the Hopkins Center will show a high-definition recording of the production. \n “Coriolanus,” written about a decade after “Julius Caesar” in the early 1600s, is a return to Shakespeare’s fascination with ancient Rome. The play portrays the life of Roman leader Caius Marcius Coriolanus during the 5th century B.C.

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London-based orchestra to perform using baroque instruments

By Caela Murphy | January 29, 2014

Can the precise, unwavering stroke of a note on a harpsichord awaken a musical past? Can it convert a modern auditorium into a royal court or the ornate halls of a cathedral? Tomorrow night, conductor Harry Bicket and the members of the English Concert chamber orchestra will take on this task.

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Artists reflect on time at Dartmouth

By Rebecca Asoulin | January 28, 2014

Louise Fishman, a former artist-in-residence at the College, still remembers how she feared leaving New York City for Hanover. “To get in my car and pack up all my stuff and go north — I’d been to New Hampshire once camping, but I didn’t know where I was going,” she said. “I think there’s a lot of fear of putting yourself out in that way.”

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Behind the Curtain: Bregman Electronic Music Studio

By Angel Carrillo Leal | January 28, 2014

Back when Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash were the big names in American music, Dartmouth hosted the world’s first competition in electronic music. Yes, you read that right.\nUnder the direction of former music professor Jon Appleton, the College opened its first electronic music studio in 1968.

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