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(03/25/04 5:00am)
Have you ever stopped to wonder why our new parking garage is more aesthetically pleasing and functional than our current art museum? The garage boasts better lighting, design, wall space and accessibility than the DUMA could ever fathom. All things considered, the parking garage would actually provide a better space to exhibit modern art and sculpture than the converted dorm on East we refer to as the museum. And that is not saying much. The parking structure even receives more funding due to high, some would say exorbitant, admission prices, while a ticket to the museum remains free to students. It was highly unlikely that any revenue would be generated to begin plans for a new space until Roy Nasher, Duke '43, entered the dismal scene with a hefty $7.5 million gift in 1998. This gift was completed with another installment of $2.5 million in 2002.
(02/13/04 5:00am)
Somewhere between watching Debbie Does Dallas and contemplating the tall, wooden phallus nestled in an obscure corner of the DUMA, one begins to wonder if romance is indeed dead. Then a wrapped package of crème-filled Red Velvet Bingles ends up on your front porch, and it is confirmed that love has no place on the modern college campus. Any idealized Valentine date involving chic art and chi-chi wine is immediately disregarded. The idea of art, always synonymous with l'amour and the finer things of life, is irrelevant for the disenchanted Duke student. We have come to judge this campus as an isolated, dysfunctional segment of society, although the art world would have us believe otherwise. This phenomenon that we grunt about so often is not merely a localized concept.
(11/13/03 5:00am)
Documentary work requires that its author have a little faith. After all, it's not every day that someone will decide art can and will elicit socio-political change. And it's not every day that a photographer will travel to Senegal or move in with sharecropper families in the South during the Depression. But occasionally these things do happen, because occasionally an artist will believe in change. In the words of Roland Barthes, "Photography is always invisible, it is not it that we see." It was this very impetus that drove the work of renowned documentary photographers Kerry Stuart Coppin and Walker Evans. Their visions are on display for all to experience at the Center for Documentary Studies' two current exhibitions--Materia Oscura/Black Matter and Walker Evans at One Hundred.
(11/06/03 5:00am)
It can safely be said that Orville and Wilbur Wright never heard of video art. Even if such a medium did exist in 1903, it is quite unlikely that it would have been proverbial in the sandy recesses of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. But on Dec. 17 of that very year, the Wright Brothers had a little trick of their own up their sleeves: flight. Icarus' failure, Michelangelo's vision and the penguin's one true ambition. One hundred years later--and we're still smitten.
(10/30/03 5:00am)
The number of emerging high-tech concert halls, Bose home theater systems and iPods alone is evidence enough that the phenomenon of "perfect sound" has taken America by storm. Consider the opening of the Walt Disney Concert Hall this month in L.A. Billed as "one of the most acoustically sophisticated concert halls in the world," the concert hall is lined with Douglas Fir and was designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry of EMP fame. When the L.A. Philharmonic practiced in the space for the first time, the conductor was astounded at how many mistakes were evident in a piece he previously thought had been performed flawlessly. Such is the reality of the culture of listening in America today.
(10/02/03 4:00am)
Whether you've been inspired by the artistic efforts of your neighbors across the hall, finally realized that Friday night on the Duke social scene no longer exists or just want to light up a Cuba Libre in a sculpture garden, tread no farther than Chapel Hill.
(09/11/03 4:00am)
Could the next Rogers and Hammerstein be lurking around Bivens these days? Perhaps. And if so, such a mastermind is undoubtedly enrolled in the new and improved Music Theater Workshop, co-taught by professors Anthony Kelley and John Clum. This thoroughly modern course is livening up the neglected corners of East Campus and has attracted fifteen students dedicated to the art of musical theater.
(03/04/03 5:00am)
Walking to West Campus through the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, students probably have no idea that they tread along the same latitude line as China.
