Duke Arts
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Duke Performances Residency Brings Jazz Pianist Chris Pattishall Home
Grammy-nominated jazz pianist Chris Pattishall returned to Durham, his hometown, as part of a yearlong residency with Duke Performances.
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In Its Fifth Year, the Enviro-Art Gallery Goes Global (and Virtual)
The Enviro-Art Gallery is an annual showcase of artwork that aims to bring awareness to environmental issues through visual media.
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Artists as Researchers: Dancing Through STEAM
“When I got to college, it wasn’t really a question of whether or not I would continue to dance as I pursued a career in medicine,” Gabby Cooper '20 said. “It was how I could make both of them work.”
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Meet the Duke Seniors Behind Theater Studies’ Mainstage Production of Medea
Directed by senior María Zurita Ontiveros and set designed by senior Ash Jeffers, Medea is the first mainstage Theater Studies has produced with students at its helm.
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All in the Family: La Colombe Contemporary Glasswork
La Colombe Contemporary Glasswork is a homegrown fused glass studio born out of the pandemic by Duke Arts alum Alex Sanchez Bressler ‘18.
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Brandon Xie’s “500 Greatest Movies of All Time”
Wondering which movies you should watch during winter break? Junior Brandon Xie has compiled a list of “The 500 Greatest Movies of All Time” using statistics from 23 different movie websites.
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At the Intersection of Art and Science
Clay Sanders, who received a PhD in civil engineering from Duke in 2020, currently has a painting depicting a dance rehearsal on display in the Rubenstein Arts Center.
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Artists as Researchers: Brittany J. Green Is Disrupting Classical Composition
For this installment of our “Artists as Researchers” series, we profile Brittany J. Green, a Ph.D. student in music composition and the current director of the Duke New Music Ensemble.
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Yng-Ru Chen ‘01 on Why She Opened Praise Shadows Art Gallery
Yng-Ru Chen ’01, owner of Praise Shadows Art Gallery in Boston, MA, is presenting an exclusive virtual preview of the new exhibition, “Memento Mori,” on March 11.
The Duke Chronicle
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‘1600 Vine: The Musical’ wants you to pick up your phone and pay attention
“1600 Vine” follows a group of young people who have gone viral online and moved to 1600 Vine Street in hopes of capitalizing on their newfound fame.
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On fatness, 'Shrill' and taking up space
I’m fat. When I was younger, I preferred to use descriptors that minimized my body like chubby or curvy or plus-size, but now I’m 20 years old, five-foot-ten and weigh over 250 pounds. My fatness is undeniable.
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With upcoming residency, Manual Cinema is bringing puppetry to campus
“Media is designed to be so frictionless,” Fornace said. “You’re supposed to forget that it’s been designed to have some kind of impact on you, by some person out in the world. We’re trying to foreground that.”
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Blending Southern Gothic and murder mystery, ‘Sharp Objects’ is peak prestige television
Similar to Vallée’s “Big Little Lies” and Flynn’s “Gone Girl,” “Sharp Objects” is particularly interested in women — how they interact with their surroundings, their relationships with other women, their complexities and atrocities.
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‘The Talk’ brings the discussion surrounding police brutality to the stage
For Kelly, whose doctoral work partially deals with communications, that’s precisely the problem with so-called conversations surrounding police brutality: They aren’t actually conversations at all.
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Recess roundtable: Why criticism?
Ahead of the Oscars on Sunday, staff writer Joel Kohen, culture editor Will Atkinson and design editor Nina Wilder chimed in with their opinions as to why thorough media criticism still deserves a place at the table of today’s journalism.
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Full Frame 2017: Interview with the cast and crew of ‘Quest’
Filmed over the span of 10 years, “Quest” is an intimate portrait of the Rainey family as they deal with both the trivialities and tribulations that their life in North Philadelphia has to offer.