Walking through the Rubenstein Library gallery, one can’t help but be drawn to the photographic portraits now lining the walls, its subjects staring directly out at the viewer as though asking you to approach them.
If you use a music streaming service like Spotify, then chances are you have come across mixes tailored to your listening habits — whether it’s “New Music Friday,” “Discover Weekly” or “Tastebreakers.” For many listeners, these algorithmically-generated playlists are one of the only options for discovering new music.
Zhubin Parang, producer and writer for "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah," visited Duke Friday for a talk hosted by the Center for Political Leadership, Innovation and Service (POLIS). Before becoming an Emmy award-winning writer and comedian, Parang practiced law after graduating from Georgetown Law School.
In his talk Monday, “Queer Eye” culture expert and therapist Karamo Brown opened up about his past, behind-the-scenes dynamics with the Fab Five and gave advice to an audience he insisted be called “friends” and not “fans.”
In seeing the mansions lining the streets of some neighborhoods in Los Angeles, most people focus on the grandeur represented in these structures. But artist Ramiro Gomez seeks to highlight the hidden labor and hierarchies that go into making these luxuries possible.
When Eric Oberstein ran up on stage two weeks ago to accept his third Grammy award for producing Dafnis Prieto’s album “Back to the Sunset,” one man stood beside him: fellow Duke alum Harsha Murthy.
The story of the Tower of Babel has an all-too familiar ending. Scattered across the face of the earth as a result of their trespass, unable to speak with one voice and in one language, humanity can no longer aspire to or endanger divine preeminence.
Nelson Music Room filled up last weekend with undergraduates eager to learn about the experiences of their peers — except, they weren't sure whose experiences they were hearing.
In the 1970s, a recent Duke graduate named George Holt — who is now director of performing arts and film programs at the NC Museum of Art — organized one of North Carolina’s first folk festivals on Duke’s campus. With the help of Holger Nygard, a former Duke professor of folklore and medieval literature who passed away in 2015, Holt expanded his scope and formed a folk festival that would eventually become the Festival for the Eno, which still takes place annually at the Eno River State Park.
Walking into “Ocean Room,” a life-size dome of video projections, is a full sensory experience. The visitor begins in a dark room, lit only by the massive ocean mound and filled with the sounds of crashing waves.
In Duke dance classes, Natalie Gilbert is not the ballerina. She’s the pink-haired musician perched on an extra cushion on a black piano bench in the glass cube at the front of the Rubenstein Arts Center.
Among the many flyers posted on the hundreds of bulletin boards around the university, one acronym that could be mistaken for a party is actually a lecture series in the humanities: the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute’s “tgiFHI” series.
When Aaron Greenwald first came to Duke, Duke Performances was a newly formed arts organization creating local programming. Over the next 12 years, he transformed it into a world-class arts presenter.
The 21st century technological evolution has promoted visualization and digitization for historical representation. As more materials become available to the public, the possibilities and opportunities for increasingly comprehensive research have grown, as evidenced by a recent Nasher event.
For the first time, an exhibition seeks to highlight the way artists from across the American continent have grappled with “Pop art” — a term that reflects both the noun “popular” as well as the verb “to pop.”
For those in low spirits due to the wintry weather and the renewed drudgery of classwork, fear not — Duke’s own Hoof n’ Horn is making spring come early this year.
A new exhibit at the Rubenstein hopes to use art and storytelling to address solutions to major women's health problems.
This spring, the Chicago-based collective Manual Cinema is bringing an art form to campus that tends to be overlooked with regard to live performance: puppetry.
The Rubenstein Arts Center opened one year ago, and it has introduced a number of new programs since then.
With the rapid spread of images through avenues like social media, it can be easy to take photography for granted today. Yet at the turn of the 20th century, this new medium of art was just coming into existence — and how it would be manipulated and utilized remained unclear.
