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Rockefeller Tree

Jolene — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:38:04 +0000

Rockefeller Tree

Jolene — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:38:03 +0000

Snapshot

Laura Abreu — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:27:50 +0000

Exactly one week ago, I had to wake up in the wee hours in the morning to attend Macaulay's Snapshot Event and the honors College. As soon as i arrived, there was a general feeling of being lost and purposelessness at the college. Many people had not arrived, and the general sense of the event was a "do it and go" kinda of thing. Therefore, I grouped up with my friends that I knew, made a small group and started filming random photographs that we liked.

SNAPSHOT @ Macaulay

im.mattlaw — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 20:32:42 +0000

Although many people didn’t like the Snapshot day at the Macaulay Honors building, I personally enjoyed it. I had the chance to meet and bond with the initial friends I made in the three orientation days from the different campuses earlier in the year. I do have to agree that the assignment was vague and unclear for some parts; however, it made it more challenging in the sense that we had to use our creativity even more so. We talked for a long time about how everyone was and went straight to work.

Art for the Community

whitney.porter — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 18:06:34 +0000

Danzy Senna

Ross Meneses — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:08:29 +0000

The House of the Dead Opera

Michelle Ranello — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:06:27 +0000

The House of the Dead opera was the first opera I have ever seen. I have listened to opera music before and have always heard about opera but never experienced it for myself. When I think of opera I think of big people singing extremely loud. I picture those people that can hold a glass and make it break with their voices. All of this is silly and very stereotypical when it comes to opera. The House of the Dead was not what I expected to see. I am glad that it was not what I expected. I think this added to my experience.

Gerhard Richter @ Marian Goodman Gallery

Jolene — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:38:33 +0000

The Marian Goodman Gallery of New York City is currently hosting a Gerhard Richter show with a series of oil paintings called 911. Gerhard Richter is a painter who is revolutionary in the same way that Jackson Pollack was for the arts. Pollack began using a drip and splatter technique and at the time, this had never been seen before. In the same way, when Richter unveiled his first paintings, the artistic scene was in awe. He used a technique that smudged and blurred the oil paint colors that he used on the canvas.

Tim Burton Exhbit

Alex Greetham — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:51:18 +0000

Unfortunately, I didn't get to see the Tim Burton exhibit at MoMA yet, but I hope I get to. (I had to do a lot of work this weekend.) I just think that Tim Burton is a great artist/director/producer with his macabre yet comical imagry and his eccentricity. Although the only movie of his I know I saw was The Nightmare Before Christmas, I do hope one day to see Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice, among other movies.

New York Historical Society

Michelle Ranello — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:46:37 +0000