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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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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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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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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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Student Spotlight: Nick O’Leary ’14

By Aimee Sung | January 27, 2014

For his honors senior thesis project, Nick O’Leary ’14 will direct the 17th century classic production “The Alchemist,” the culmination of his interests and experiences at the College.

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Hood digitizes Native American art

By Marley Marius | January 27, 2014

Since the Hood Museum of Art received a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services four months ago, the museum has begun to digitize its 4,000-plus pieces of Native American art in a slow but steady process.

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‘Nebraska’ is dumb luck, dark laughs

By Varun Bhuchar | January 26, 2014

America is big. Like, really big. You might think it’s a long way to the pharmacy, but that trip is peanuts compared to traveling across America. That’s why you get so many road trip movies; they’re all about the journey, and with a country as large and varied as the United States, you get lots of journeys.

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Panel to discuss potential for post-racial society

By Katie McConnell | January 26, 2014

This afternoon’s “A World Beyond Race” panel, featuring author and Native American studies scholar Roger Echo-Hawk and Dartmouth faculty members, will attempt to promote a new dialogue on race in society, specifically one without race. Echo-Hawk, author of “The Magic Children: Racial Identity at the End of the Age of Race” and “NAGPRA and the Future of Racial Sovereignties,” argues in his work that a post-racial world is possible.

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