Michaela Dwyer
Take art personally on this campus, and anywhere. Take it so personally that you have to tell people about it, about why it compels you, about why it’s worth preserving.
Ted Phillips
#artsconfessions: I am a Bio major. #scienceconfessions: I am an editor for this arts publication and I play in the orchestra.
Dan Fishman
I’m starting to come to grips with the idea that being an artist or a thinker or a journalist isn’t about having been properly educated.
Katie Zaborsky
I will never get pleasure from floating through the Bronx at 2 a.m., even if there’s the potential to discover a new haunt or meet Don DeLillo or whatever.
Holly Hilliard
The hardest part about returning to the “paved world” after spending time in the woods is figuring out how to make things seem alive.
Thomas Kavanagh
This was something worse: a fear of becoming an impostor of musical taste, a false authority on art.
The major film industry doesn’t seem to be going anywhere. But what you can do is stop giving a damn.
If I could have plagiarized this Editor’s Note from other sources to prove a point, I would have.
Here’s my public service announcement: the creative writing minor is there if you want it.
Sophia Durand
Hemingway once mentioned that there is no friend as loyal as a book.
My little, beautiful, vibrant, cool, intelligent, artistic, progressive Southern town, I thought.
It has become increasingly apparent to me that I should have done more internships.
To some, film soundtracks and scores are like seatbelts, always in use but rarely necessary.
For a long time, I’ve struggled to reconcile my position as a feminist with my love of hip-hop.
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
Ceci n’est pas une Editor’s Note.
This is an article that contributes to a culturally-perpetuated cycle of how men perceive women: crazy.
Just because YA books are written for a younger audience does not mean they’re inconsequential.
Perhaps the problem is that too many people live their lives without thinking, especially in this age of non-stop screentime and engagement.
There’s a famous quip that many music reviewers know: “Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.”
We are all too content to know that another person has the same tastes without wondering how they got there.
Let’s begin at the beginning, and let’s get personal. Quickly.
I am trying to convey a simple notion: art is what you make it.
Much of Price’s speech still resonates with today’s Duke.
Just because classical music concerts don’t involve your typical Main Quad bacchanalia does not mean they aren’t worth going to.
