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Entries Tagged as 'Arts'

Dragged Out Prints

April 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Arts

If I had to determine my absolute guilty pleasure, secretly eating my mother’s milk chocolate-covered vanilla ice cream bars would be a close second. However, RuPaul’s Drag Race reigns on top. As a mixture of the dangerously addicting reality TV shows like America’s Next Top Model, Project Runway, and the Real World, RPDR takes all […]

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A Silent Night…Literally!

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

What do Pete Doherty, the Kooks, Billy Bragg, Imogen Heap, and Orbital have in common? Well…they’re all in the music industry. However, this year, their defining unifying factor is the collaboration of support for Cage Against the Machine. Cage Against the Machine is the campaign to put the silent piece 4’33” by John Cage (our […]

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When Art and Death Embrace

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

Death is not an easy topic to cover, but Jay Rosenblatt does so anyway. A master of found footage form, this San Francisco based artist “splices” neglected or discarded educational or industrial films, commercials, news clips, and home movies into a seamless moving collage, with subtly layered soundtracks that range from poetry readings, journal entries […]

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To Think of Time

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

In regards to parent and child, many agree that the apple does not fall far from the tree. Some commonly known examples are actresses Blythe Danner and daughter Gwenyth Paltrow, as well as musician John Lennon and his son, Sean. In the realm of visual art, the VanDerBeek’s are no exception. Sarah VanDerBeek is the […]

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Within the Crab’s Shell

December 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

It’s safe to say that Henry Darger was a hermit. He was a notoriously reclusive artist who is famous for a 15,145 paged (single-spaced, mind you) manuscript titled The Story of the Vivian Girls, in What is Known as the Realms of the Unreal, of the Glandeco-Angelinnian War Storm, Caused by the Child Slave Rebellion, […]

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Octagaga

December 9th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

When one thinks of Times Square, the concept of tourist attractions come to mind. One of the veteran places in this area that entices millions of visitors is the Wax Museum of Madame Tussauds, which features the wax figures of celebrities of the past and present. However, aside from the humorous poses with these statues, […]

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To Whom It May Concern

December 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

It all started a year ago, when a mysterious and creepy video featuring slightly disturbing imagery over an experimental electronica soundtrack was uploaded on to the iamamiwhoami channel on Youtube. The videos were continuously uploaded, and the public wondered of the meaning behind the project. Soon after, the people behind the channel sent a package […]

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Soul Leaves Her Body

November 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

On November 23, I attended Soul Leaves Her Body, an integrated-media performance combining theater, dance, live video, music, and film. Inspired by a 13th century Chinese story about a woman who rips her soul from her body in order to pursue her destiny in the city, the show explored the soul-body relationship in life, love, […]

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Glorious Sky: Herbert Katzman’s New York

November 18th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

As we all know, Seminar 1 explores the Arts in New York City, hence its namesake. However, how often to do we encounter an arts event in Manhattan featuring art on, well, Manhattan? That’s were Herbert Katzman comes in. A Chicago native, Katzman moved to New York City and fell in love with it, even […]

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Music and Spirituality

November 17th, 2010 · No Comments · Arts

There is no doubt that music plays an important role in facilitating people spiritually for all kinds of religion. One of the earliest and most known examples is the Gregorian chant of the Middle ages. However, sacred music of not only Roman Catholicism, but in other denominations as well are often overlooked artistically. Thus, Lincoln […]

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