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Beginning with an opening reception Wednesday evening, senior Jeainny Kim’s exhibit, “(as) Thick as Thieves,” will be on display until Dec. 9 at Duke’s Power Plant Gallery — the first exhibit by an undergraduate to be shown at this professional gallery.
Since Oct. 18, students who have walked into their second home — Perkins — with heavy steps must have been drawn by the black-and-white, visually appealing exhibit “Humans of Paris: Picturing Social Life in the Nineteenth Century” in the Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery, located between the Von der Heyden Pavilion and the first floor of the library.
Duke’s annual dance showcase, the November Dances, proved to be a visually stunning display of athleticism and art last Friday and Saturday, Nov. 17 and 18.
Six years ago, William Paul Thomas, the Brock Family Visiting Professor in Studio Arts, was waiting for the bus when a face caught his eye.
Hidden away behind the galleries and brunching students at the Nasher Museum is a little classroom.
Last Friday, the Duke Student Wellness Center hosted an opening reception of its Wellness Art Gallery, which showcased the artworks of two talented first-year artists, Greta Chen and Shailen Parmar, who are both duArts first-year interns.
Last Tuesday, the crunching sound of nachos and vegetables filled a seminar room in the Perkins LINK.
On a hot, sunny afternoon in early November, tents lined Krzyzewskiville as music streamed from a speaker.
It seems nearly impossible to walk around campus and not find people streaming shows and movies from their laptops — huddled in a corner booth at The Loop or holed up in Perkins, their screen split between organic chemistry notes and Netflix.
The annual DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend, which brings together creative Duke students who aspire to become successful in the media industry, took place last Friday and Saturday.
For years, New York and Los Angeles have been the dual epicenters of the arts and media world.
In the past, the term “a cappella” referred to Jewish or Christian choral music sung without accompanying musical instruments.
Between 12 years at 20th Century Fox and her current position as the executive vice president of drama development at NBC, Lisa Katz, Trinity ‘95, has overseen the development of numerous hit TV shows, including “Bones,” “Empire” and “This Is Us.”
If you’re not a graduate student — or a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, specifically — there’s a good chance you may not have heard about its leading publication, Eno Magazine.
This semester, Duke’s oldest theater group is diversifying their repertoire in more ways than one; senior Sophie Caplin is directing Duke Players’ first musical — award-winning “Once on this Island” — performed by an all-black cast.
Upon entering the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center, I found myself feeling slightly overwhelmed.
Next to the waiting room entrance in Duke Hospital, there’s a glass case, filled with swirls of color on canvas that contrast with the sterile, white walls of the rest of the building. “Imagined Places,” the small sign reads.
Nobody walked in the Sheafer Lab Theater on Thursday.
When asked what Sunday Salons mean to her, MFA student and film curator Lexi Bass said, “For me, there’s an element of church in it. There’s a way to engage in spirituality with a group people, in the dark.
As the hustle and bustle of the new academic year settled in and Duke welcomed its new students, the Nasher Museum of Art, too, welcomed a new collection of paintings, with “Disorderly Conduct: American Painting and Sculpture, 1960-1990.”
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