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In the two months since the Rubenstein Arts Center opened, it has hosted two world premieres, an artist in residence and an opening attended by over 3,000 people. But the arts building still has a long way to go before it becomes the student space it is supposed to be.
From 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., a continuous stream of artists will perform as part of the annual Brickside Music Festival, the Coffeehouse’s biggest event of the year.
On Saturday afternoon, the Nasher Museum of Art will host an event called “Disability and the Arts” as the culmination of Disability Pride Week.
While incoming first-year students are visiting during Blue Devil Days, a Wired! Lab project team, “Statues Speak,” will display the first phase of its result to new students and other Duke visitors.
Have you ever thought about what North Carolina would be like if there was no tobacco farming?
On March 12, senior Kelsey Graywill’s visual art showcase “Makings of a Mind” at Louise Jones Brown Gallery concluded its exhibition.
Partnering with other on-campus groups, including DukeArts and DEMAN, Kip Frey, director of the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, launched the StudioDuke program this year.
The first time I attended a poetry reading was last Thursday at Brody Theater on East Campus.
Last year, Sophia Santillan, assistant professor in the practice in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, saw an NBC News clip about Repair Café. Now, she’s working with the North Carolina chapter to bring Repair Café to Duke.
Two weeks ago, presidential portraits of the Obamas were unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.
Roger Beebe, who received his Ph.D. in Literature at Duke in 2000, came back to campus last Wednesday to present four of his multi-projector films at the Bryan Center’s Griffith Film Theater.
If you got on a bus with only one other person on board, would you sit down next to them? Probably not, right?
When sophomore Lucas Tishler hears music, he says he can see the notes in front of him.
Last Wednesday, Cole Heathcott, a student at the Fuqua School of Business, released a music video for one of the songs in his new album, “American Love,” which will be released on Mar. 1.
Monday night, amid the #MeToo and Time’s Up movements, women from all sectors of Duke came together for Believe Her, a discussion on gender violence on campus.
On the last day of each month, Duke plays host to a few more tents — but not in K-Ville.
“Good Country People” is the furthest thing from a pleasant read. Flannery O’Connor’s 1955 short story has few truly likable characters and ends on a sour, dismal note that leaves the reader discontented.
Artist Dario Robleto visited the Nasher Museum of Art Feb. 1 to present his lecture, “A Dream, As Faithful As a Flame.”
At the finale of the film “Akounak Tedalat Taha Tazoughai,” set in the Nigerien city of Agadez, musician and protagonist Mdou Moctar takes up his guitar and deftly immerses the viewer in his world.
