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(03/03/14 11:35pm)
Nikki Whang (T ’14) is in the midst of week-long public art action project for her thesis in public policy and visual art. Seven Days on Display stems from Whang’s identity as an Asian American woman and asks us to critically think about the way we perceive Asian American identity. The week began on Thursday with "Where did all the Asian food go?" However, the scope of the participatory multimedia project goes beyond the artist’s identities to explore the intersectionalities of gender, sexuality, race, body image and social norms. Recess writer Hannah Anderson-Baranger spoke with Whang about her inspirations and hopes for the project.
(02/13/14 10:00am)
Work began this week on a unique addition to Duke’s landscape. The in-progress Environment Hall, located behind the LSRC, will feature a stonewall sculpture as an integrated part of the landscaping in front of the building. Almost two years ago, the Dean of the Nicholas School for the Environment, Bill Chameides, approached stonemason Thea Alvin about creating one of her stone sculpture-landscapes for the planned Environment Hall building.
(02/06/14 8:32am)
Local band Lilac Shadows wanted to do something special for the release of their latest record. So, they decided to put up an art exhibition. Opening this week is the “No Dark/No Light” exhibit at the Carrack Modern Art gallery in downtown Durham, complementing their album of the same name.
(01/14/14 11:33am)
Haunted plantation homes. Cut-off communities. Family. Ignored disease. Tradition. These are a few of the themes covered in the Kenan Institute for Ethics' spring film series, entitled "The South: Navigating the Past, Carving out a Future."
(06/24/15 5:34pm)
Haunted plantation homes. Cut-off communities. Family. Ignored disease. Tradition. These are a few of the themes covered in the Kenan Institute for Ethics' spring film series, entitled "The South: Navigating the Past, Carving out a Future."
(10/03/13 7:30am)
A black barrier encloses you in a small space. You run around frantically, confronted on all sides by this ominous obstruction. Every time you approach the barrier you immediately run away, unable to cross it. Eventually, you steel yourself and miraculously cross it. It wasn’t a physical obstacle after all.
(04/18/13 9:36am)
“Something appealing, something appalling, something for everyone, a comedy tonight!” sing the members of Opera Workshop. This weekend, Duke students will perform a selection of opera pieces, complete with costumes and staging. Comedy Tonight! is performed entirely in English, meaning that no translations or subtitles are necessary to enjoy the show.
(03/21/13 9:00am)
An otherworldly landscape has appeared at the Nasher Museum of Art. Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey opens today, welcoming visitors into a lush landscape of multi-sensory experience. At the gallery entrance, a life-sized womanlike creature with nonhuman limbs stares down from the wall, cloth tree roots literally protruding below her. Inside the gallery, a field of hanging orbs seems at once like a hundred bouncing balls and like a new kind of ecological landscape.
(01/24/13 10:41am)
In a music industry where young bands are often preferred and fetishized, it’s exciting to hear well-seasoned musicians crafting some of the best rock out there. Douglas McCombs, of the bands Tortoise, Eleventh Dream Day and Pullman, started Brokeback in the mid-1990s as solo project, through which he explored spare melodic sounds on his six-string Fender Bass VI. Brokeback and the Black Rock is the first Brokeback release in nearly a decade, marking a new era for the band.
(01/15/13 11:18am)
Panoramic video journals. Interactive digital installation. Experimental film. These are just a few of the artistic forms that will be found in the Immersed in Every Sense 2, a Visiting Artist Lecture Series. Organized by the arts faculty and supported by funding from the Vice Provost for the Arts, the series brings to campus artists from around the United States and Canada for a brief residency, during which the artists give public lectures, demonstrations and visit classes.
(11/29/12 10:54am)
College is a bubble, an artificial reality that keeps us from addressing real-life issues of life and death. Recently I’ve been questioning this bubble and its merits. Sometimes this makes me unsure about my place at school, but I’ve realized that it is necessary since life and death are part of, well, life.
(11/15/12 8:55am)
Recently I’ve been preoccupied with the question of what happens to art after it’s created. The tendency to paint a canvas and then say “ok great, ready for the next one,” and then go out and buy another seems problematic. Meanwhile, the first canvas likely languishes in the corner of the house gathering dust. What is it about artistic items that makes us want to, and makes it okay to, keep them for a long time? Especially when we’re not actively using or appreciating them. If it’s not on our walls, and we’re not keeping it for our professional portfolios, than why keep it at all?
(11/01/12 5:51am)
Last year in an environmental ethics class the professor asked me why I act in the face of climate change. That’s a question I encourage everyone to ask themselves—why do you, or don’t you, act against the terrible changes happening to the natural environment? I’m motivated by the knowledge that climate change is more than a “natural disaster”—that is what keeps me from getting stuck in my mind, inactive.
(10/18/12 8:05am)
In my last column I wrote about how art can be political and why politicians should pay attention to it. It got me thinking about whether art is inherently political, regardless of whether its content is specifically political. Considering that many visual art forms are very material-intensive, it seems like the politics of the materials themselves automatically transfer onto the art piece.
(10/04/12 5:34am)
It’s election season, and debates abound about the candidates’ views on all matters. But what place do the arts have in all this? Well, Obama proposes a 5 percent increase in funding for some of the major government-funded art organizations, whereas Romney says he will do away with such support. Maybe they should take a cue from FDR and Picasso and realize that art and politics go hand in hand.
(09/20/12 6:24am)
For many students on campus, this week marks the first round of midterms. But for me, it’s the beginning of the new year. The holiday of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, took place this past Sunday evening through Tuesday evening. A time for reflection on the past year, Rosh Hashanah always prompts me to re-examine not only my personal relationships, but also my hopes for the future. This year, I dream of making the world a better place.
(09/06/12 4:46am)
In a world over-saturated with visual stimulation, it’s easy to think that any one image doesn’t matter. From print advertisements to Internet sidebars to Facebook events, the amount of visual information we process on a given day is astounding. It has become easy to see how large quantities of images can cause societal changes. But what can just one image do? My answer: a lot.
(05/24/12 5:40am)
Every day it seems that our generation is becoming more aware of the ethical issues surrounding our purchases. We rightly feel that we should play our part in eliminating the injustices that arise as a result of the products and services we use. Unfortunately, not all of us are willing to pay the associated price.
