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When in Rome
By Hilary Becker | May 28, 2008All who wander are not lost: Serendipity sweetens the Ancient City
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When in Rome: Light and Shadow -- The Bubble and Beyond
By Hilary Becker | May 5, 2008Walking down the nave to the very back and standing before the Contarelli chapel, you can barely make out the figures of the Caravaggio painting on the left-hand wall.
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When in Rome: 'Shmob Mentality in the Ancient City
By Hilary Becker | April 7, 2008Carly Silverman Editor's Note: This is the first installment of a biweekly column on the art and culture of Rome by Hilary Becker, who is spending Spring term on the art history Foreign Study Program. Sitting uncomfortably in the coach seat of my Continental flight, I was gawking across the aisle at some bambina sandwiched cozily between her parents.
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Cunningham premiere turns both silly and mesmerizing
By Hilary Becker | October 8, 2007Courtesy of the Hopkins Center The world premiere of Merce Cunningham's "XOVER" at Moore Theater Friday night began with a revolution -- at least, in relative terms. After about 45 minutes of watching dancers stretch their arms in unforgiving, solid-colored Rauschenberg encasements, their suddenly sleeveless bodysuits seemed scandalously new.
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Jewelry studio inspires Paris internship and career dream
By Hilary Becker | May 14, 2007Lauren Wool / The Dartmouth Senior Staff Most people who indulge in a passing flirtation with jewelry-making extend their productivity only as far as embroidery floss friendship bracelets, mother's day macaroni necklaces and kindergarten seed beads are no longer fashionable.
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Prison project brings inmates, students together to perform
By Hilary Becker | May 2, 2007The Dartmouth For three Dartmouth students, Tuesdays and Thursdays mean visits to prison.
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Cunningham '07 adjusts to life after 'Top Model' reality
By Hilary Becker | April 19, 2007Photo courtesy of The CW Whitney Cunningham '07, a recent contestant on "America's Next Top Model," is one of the few Dartmouth students who can actually claim to be a campus celebrity.
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Pilobolus brings home a spellbinding evening of dance
By Hilary Becker | April 5, 2007Courtesy of the Hopkins Center That Pilobolus is a Dartmouth-born company seemed immediately evident as the curtain opened on their April 4 Hopkins center performance.
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Sculptor Brenda Garand to head studio art department
By Hilary Becker | February 28, 2007Paul Park / The Dartmouth Staff Just as soon as Brenda Garand, newly appointed chair of the studio art department, offers me a seat in one of her ergonomic office chairs, I'm back on my feet again, examining the bookshelf full of student work that occupies one wall of her office. As Garand pulls pieces off the shelf, explaining the assignments for which they were created and the artists behind them, it becomes clear that she intends to maintain the studio art department's devotion to its students. "I want our department to be a place where students feel like they can explore," Garand said. Under her direction, it appears that the department's emphasis on exploration, visual possibility and dynamic engagement will continue to develop and thrive. Garand, who was named chair of the department this past summer, is a sculptor who works in fabrics and steel, though she also explores and teaches in other mediums.