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Student app lets users discover new music through their friends' tastes

By Will Atkinson | March 6, 2019

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. 

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Q&A: 'Daily Show' writer Zhubin Parang on his transition into comedy

By Miranda Gershoni | March 4, 2019

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.

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'We are all perfectly designed': Karamo Brown's advice for Duke students

By Miranda Gershoni | February 26, 2019

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.” 

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Artist Ramiro Gomez discusses work chronicling lives of domestic workers

By Ashley Kwon | February 26, 2019

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. 

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Eric Oberstein wins third Grammy for 'Back to the Sunset' with help of two Duke alums

By Christy Kuesel | February 25, 2019

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.

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Rebecca Kuzemchak's 'Babel' brings plurality of voices to the Brown Gallery

By Ronja Nayeri | February 18, 2019

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. 

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Me Too Monologues celebrates 10 year anniversary by honoring its history

By Jessica Williams | February 13, 2019

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. 

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Duke Arts and NC Arts Council's documentary initiative supports traditional artists

By Nina Wilder | February 12, 2019

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.

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New exhibit 'Ocean Room' creates on-campus sanctuary at the Rubenstein

By Kerry Rork | February 7, 2019

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. 

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Behind the piano: Duke Dance accompanist Natalie Gilbert discusses music and innovation

By Kristi Sturgill | February 6, 2019

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.

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Franklin Humanities Institute talks combine breakfast and humanities research

By Joel Kohen | January 30, 2019

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. 

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Duke Performances director Aaron Greenwald departs after 12 year tenure

By Christy Kuesel | January 23, 2019

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. 

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Nasher symposium focuses on how technology is changing art history

By Kerry Rork | January 23, 2019

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. 

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'Pop América' exhibit brings hemispheric view of pop art to the Nasher

By Joel Kohen | January 16, 2019

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.” 

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Hoof 'n' Horn tackles the trials of adolescence in 'Spring Awakening'

By Sydny Long | January 16, 2019

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.

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'(In)visible Organ' exhibit at the Rubenstein sheds light on reproductive health

By Selena Qian | January 16, 2019

A new exhibit at the Rubenstein hopes to use art and storytelling to address solutions to major women's health problems. 

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With upcoming residency, Manual Cinema is bringing puppetry to campus

By Nina Wilder | January 16, 2019

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. 

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This year at the Rubenstein: Artist talks, classes and a coffee cart

By Eva Hong | January 16, 2019

The Rubenstein Arts Center opened one year ago, and it has introduced a number of new programs since then. 

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'Where We Find Ourselves' shows diversity of 19th century photography

By Kerry Rork | January 16, 2019

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. 

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CDS exhibit 'One Hurricane Season' individualizes climate change

By Alizeh Sheikh | January 16, 2019

Climate change is a topic that is at once impersonal and urgent. Although nearly every successive climate change report seems to pull the due date of impending calamity ever closer to the present, climate change coverage has refrained from politicizing the issue, often turning to a small handful of the big players, like national governments.