As many people are probably aware, South-African social revolutionary and long-time hero Nelson Mandela died this past week. When I first starting crafting this review, Mandela was still alive and the nation was rejoicing about the new movie released based … Continue reading
Paying Artists for Advertisement Design: Is It Art or Is It Business? In New York City we are surrounded by all different varieties of art. We cross paths with street performers (wearing varying amounts of clothing) … Continue reading
Nosferatu was one of the first horror movies ever filmed: it has set the bar and established precedent for over 90 years of sweaty palms and racing pulses. Over this time our threshold for being scared has evolved and the … Continue reading
The overarching theme that I drew from The Nose and which inspired my photo collage is the shallowness of wealth. It is the idea that status and wealth are drawn not from skill or experience but from frivolity. Gogol … Continue reading
Gogol’s “The Nose” is about a nose in only the most literal sense. While I was reading, I didn’t immediately get the overarching symbolism that the nose represented throughout the novella. The nose isn’t a nose, or at least it … Continue reading
Romeo and Juliet is a comedy, right? Huh… it’s not? Oh yeah, it’s a tragic love story full of death and conflict. So why were we all laughing? Maybe it was the mix of Shakespearean English and the modern gangster … Continue reading
Art means never doing the same thing twice. It is innovation and originality and weirdness. All we need to do as appreciators of art is have an open mind. I will be the first to admit that this is not … Continue reading
Franz Kafka did not like humanity. He viewed our day-to-day lives (or at least the lives of people in the 1920’s) as dismally trivial. To be fair, living in Czechoslovakia in the early nineteenth century was probably no picnic. But … Continue reading
Hi my name is Mariel Heyboer and the one word to describe me would probably be restless. Anyone who knows me knows I can’t stay in one place for very long because there are always new places I want to … Continue reading
