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WALLS: Spring picks

WALLS: Spring picks

Amelia Chen February 20, 2019

WALLS participants camped out in Lawrence Hall overnight to get their first-choice picks from WCMA's covetable collection. See the pieces in their new homes! Photos by Aniah Price and Sabrine Brismeur Mina...

WCMA runs Winter Study course in curation, museum practice

WCMA runs Winter Study course in curation, museum practice

Mae Burris-Wells February 6, 2019

An interestingly paradoxical trend describes museum quality: The more effort put into engineering the experience, the more invisible the effort becomes. The most clever, intuitive gallery designs...

Artist Rafa Esparza adds detail to one of the portraits exhibited in staring at the sun. Esparza works with adobe instead of canvas. Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA.

Rafa Esparza: ‘staring at the sun’ breaks the MASS MoCA mold

Mae Burris-Wells January 23, 2019

Artist Rafa Esparza adds detail to one of the portraits exhibited in staring at the sun. Esparza works with adobe instead of canvas. Photo courtesy of Mass MoCA. Curatorial designs in museums are streamlined,...

John Constable’s The Wheat Field (1816) depicts an August harvest in the English county of Suffolk. Photo courtesy of The Clark.

Clark exhibition, Images screenings delve into landscapes

Georgia McClain January 23, 2019

John Constable’s The Wheat Field (1816) depicts an August harvest in the English county of Suffolk. Photo courtesy of The Clark. English painters Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) and John...

Set in the 18th century, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ new comedy The Favourite is rife with surprises. Photo courtesy of ICA.

‘The Favourite’ brings chaos to court

Clara Lee January 23, 2019

Set in the 18th century, director Yorgos Lanthimos’ new comedy The Favourite is rife with surprises. Photo courtesy of ICA. You thought you knew what you were getting yourself into? You thought wrong....

Raising Hell enraptures audience with witty, absurd antics

“Raising Hell” enraptures audience with witty, absurd antics

Yasmina Cabrera December 5, 2018

At 8 p.m. last Friday night, students piled into Paresky Auditorium for the Perennial Amateur Convention’s (PAC) fall comedy show, Raising Hell, which consisted of a few introductory stand-up acts...

Chalamet delivers visceral, raw performance

Chalamet delivers visceral, raw performance

Phillip Pyle December 5, 2018

A few Fridays ago, I decided to spend my whole evening at Images Cinema. I watched Damien Chazelle’s First Man at 4:45 pm and Beautiful Boy immediately after. It comes as no surprise that teenage movie...

Cap & Bells takes on sinister comedy with The Pillowman

Cap & Bells takes on sinister comedy with “The Pillowman”

Zoé Chevalier December 5, 2018

Cap & Bells’ latest show, The Pillowman, is a masterful adaptation of a dark classic. The play, written by Martin McDonagh and directed by John Murphy ’21, was performed on Nov. 16 and 17 in...

Boiling Under addresses student pressures via interactive dance

“Boiling Under” addresses student pressures via interactive dance

Wendy Hernandez December 5, 2018

This past Saturday I found myself in a familiar place: the Schow Science Library. Only this time, after reaching critical mass, the frenzied motion I was studying wasn’t in a glass beaker. Around fifty...

Widows subverts the classic heist

“Widows” subverts the classic heist

Mandela Namaste December 5, 2018

The heist movie genre is extremely popular and salient in pop culture, and for great reason: the tropes are well-known and obvious, and if a movie utilizes them well, it will be greatly celebrated. The...

“Black to the Future: Afro-futurism” centers black queer joy

“Black to the Future: Afro-futurism” centers black queer joy

Natalie Wilkinson November 14, 2018

“We are going to be making a liberated space,” Kailyn Gibson ’22 announced in Goodrich on Thursday, Nov. 1. Gibson invited audience members to engage in a series of creative writing prompts before...

First Man depicts an American hero,  avoids trapfalls of trite patriotism

“First Man” depicts an American hero, avoids trapfalls of trite patriotism

Luke Valadie November 14, 2018

First Man, playing at Images Cinema through tomorrow, is the first of Damien Chazelle’s major films that isn’t centered around music. La La Land was a musical about performers in Los Angeles, while...

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