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From listening to the same album until the sun comes up to binge watching the most ridiculous reality TV, the Recess staff compiled their favorite pieces of culture from a season that’s all about rotting your brain in the most nurturing way.
The Nasher Museum of Art’s latest exhibition, “Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948 - 1960,” opened on August 25 after a two-year postponement due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Senior Abby Huang decided during her senior year of high school that she wanted to found a virtual marketplace start-up. Many iterations of her vision later, Huang and her team of Duke undergraduate and graduate students have launched Dime Marketplace, a platform designed for young creators to sell their products.
The lights dim, the sounds of a serene forest spring subside while the audience in Shaffer Lab Theater falls to an anticipating quiet. Everyone is here to see Hoof’n’Horn’s Spring production of "Into the Woods."
In her thesis project, Maleki explores the realities of immigration through liminal spaces drawn from livestream footage and spoken word.
As much as MacDiarmid's short film explores the unusual, often unheard of experiment, it also speaks to the current environmental destruction we are experiencing on our own planet.
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The annual adaptive fashion show, brought by Runway of Dreams, brought some bright colors to the gloomy spring weather on campus last week.
Hong's one-of-a-kind, upcycled necklaces have become coveted statement pieces for varying punk-inspired and vintage jewelry collections across campus and beyond.
The works in “Reliquary of Complicated Truth” are tangible metaphors, telling the viewers that discarded, seemingly useless material can be pieced together and transformed into art, just as mundanity and brokenness can be reconfigured into something beautiful.
Finishing out a theater studies degree, for many Duke undergraduates, involves a senior distinction project: over the course of a year, students produce either independent research or a performance piece in an art medium of their choice. Seidel decided on the latter.
For a few brief moments last Saturday night in the Ruby, I was teleported to the 1920s, delighting in the flashing motion pictures.
Taking the fashion industry by storm, Drew Frank is a first-year who started clothing brand Concrete Hills during his sophomore year of high school with his younger brother, Jamie.
While there must be a recognition of the sadness and trauma experienced in the Afghan nation, images such as the ones in this exhibit illustrate the rich, complex cultures and experiences present there.
Over 120 years ago, a group of white supremacists performed a coup targeting the biracial government of Wilmington, N.C., destroying Black property and taking an indeterminate number of lives. Today, Stephen L. Hayes’s statue depicting soldiers from the United States Colored Troops (USCT) stands proudly in the same city.
Since its founding, Duke’s student-run record label has given student-artists an opportunity to explore and develop their musical passions while balancing their academics.
“Mary Lou Williams’ music has changed my life," Pattishall said.
With their newest podcast episode, “Combating Climate Misinformation: Say It With Science”, the Duke students at the helm of nonprofit Operation Climate have teamed up with the United Nations to tackle the abundance of misinformation surrounding climate change.
Last month, Duke Performances’ Building Bridges: Muslims in America initiative hosted its first artist since March 2021 and its first in-person artist since February 2020.