Palmer Gallery exhibit explores the ‘Open World’ of Simon Tosky
In “Open World” by Simon Tosky, the world is not only open but destabilized. Tosky renders inner life in bright colors, with sparse figures that are both vivid and ghostly…
Meghan Hayfield
“Chemical Hearts” subverts tired teen tropes
On a recent Saturday morning—the kind where the cloud cover is high and the only source of entertainment is watching my pour-over coffee drip, drip into a mug, during the…
BIPOC directors rethink suffrage history via avant-garde film
In the midst of a global pandemic, daily life requires some imagination. Reimagining Black Feminist Past and Futures, an upcoming film festival developed by a Poughkeepsie artist group and five…
Indie pop debut puts life on pause
This morning I stood in line to get into Whole Foods. It was raining and cold and I was not aptly dressed. My Birkenstocks were collecting raindrops and I looked…
Printmaker relates engraving to artistry, personhood, nature
It was a dark and stormy Wednesday afternoon. Well, not exactly stormy, but misty, the gentle spray of raindrops that does not quite warrant an umbrella but is enough to…
Mug welcomes womxn, nonbinary DJs to take up turntables
Thirteen bodies crowded around a CDJ—the digital music players with turntables—in the Mug on Thursday, Feb. 20, including a mannequin wearing a cowboy hat. I tried to decode the equipment…
Vassar bands tackle folk, punk, breakups for Valentine’s Day
At Vassar, there are bands. There are loud bands, singer-songwriter bands, solo artists, bands you don’t know the name of but recognize from that one TH party or Mug event.…
Essayist James Wood explores pathos of prose
On Tuesday, Feb. 4, celebrated literary critic and novelist James Wood spoke to a sparse crowd, all equipped with notebooks, in Sanders Auditorium. Wood is a staff writer at The…
Ujima poets consider personal, political in spoken word
The Miscellany News version of the NPR Tiny Desk series does not take place behind a desk. It has found a home in makeshift spaces on campus; past locations have…
Annual ‘coffeehouse’ showcases POC artists and writers
The third annual Multiracial Biracial Student Association (MBSA) Coffeehouse was held in the Villard Room on Tuesday, Nov. 19, showcasing creations from PoC artists. MBSA, an offshoot of the Black…