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AVA gallery focuses on local river and scenery

By Mac Emery | October 27, 2014

The Connecticut River’s motion and splendor will wind its way through the Alliance for the Visual Arts gallery in Lebanon.

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MacMillan ’14 creates rotunda display

By Michaela Ledoux | October 26, 2014

The Barrows Rotunda, the circular space that greets passersby as they enter the Hopkins Center, will showcase the work of studio art intern Julian MacMillan ’14 until Nov. 25.

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Vaughan show features classical guitar

By Margot Byrne | October 26, 2014

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

By Andrew Kingsley | October 26, 2014

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

By Kaina Chen | October 26, 2014

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

By Kourtney Kawano | October 22, 2014

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.

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Student Spotlight: Corinne Romano '15

By Hallie Huffaker | October 22, 2014

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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Documentarian Krawitz screens ‘Perfect Strangers,’ visits classes

By Maya Poddar | October 21, 2014

Documentarian Jan Krawitz explores the emotions and experiences of altruistic organ donors in her most recent documentary, “Perfect Strangers” (2013), which will be screened at the Loew Audtorium on Wednesday evening.

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Beyond the Bubble: Video Games as Artistic Expression

By Andrea Nease | October 20, 2014

If someone asked you what art is, what would you say? Art is harder to define than you thought it would be, isn’t it? A friend posed this question to me the other day, and my response was a jumbled list of names.

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Profs talk new ways to teach ‘The Bard’

By Owen Shepcaro | October 19, 2014

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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Emerson String Quartet to play Hop WWI series

By Margarette Nelson | October 19, 2014

Nine-time Grammy Award winners The Emerson String Quartet will perform at the Hopkins Center on Tuesday evening. The program will consist of string quartet works from composers Benjamin Britten, Maurice Ravel and Dmitri Shostakovich.

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Waterman sculpts new work for LSC

By Gina Campanelli | October 19, 2014

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’

By Andrew Kingsley | October 19, 2014

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.

Artists Jae and Wadsworth Jarrell gave a talk on Wednesday in the Hood Museum's Kim Gallery.

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Hood events explore the civil rights movement through art

By Margarette Nelson and Jessica Zischke | October 15, 2014

As if an imaginary fist from behind the frame had punched through the foil of Jack Whitten’s “Birmingham 1964” (1964), a hole appears like an artifact of violence, a documentation of the civil rights movement. The hole is a window, offering a view of an old newspaper photo. A stocking mesh prevents a clear view of the image.

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Concert to feature video, collaboration

By Mac Emery | October 14, 2014

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'

By Margot Bryne | October 13, 2014

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

By Andrea Nease | October 13, 2014

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

By Kourtney Kawano | October 12, 2014

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

By Kaina Chen | October 12, 2014

“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.

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Adel ’84 makes art with talent, humor

By Hallie Huffaker | October 12, 2014

Daniel Adel ’84 is known for his stunning portraitures and hilariously accurate caricatures. Adel has exhibited his work in New York for decades as well as painted portraits of CEOs, university presidents and well-known judges. His illustrations have been featured in the New Yorker and the New York Times, and he drew the Time Magazine cover designating George W. Bush “Person of the Year” in 2004. Adel currently lives and works in Provence, France.