Athena, Marianne, Europa, Columbia, Lady Liberty… The list goes on, but throughout the world, countless nations have chosen to personify themselves in the form of an idealized woman, embodying notions…
Fans and cosplayers alike flocked to New York Comic Con over the weekend, visiting panels about manga and getting their memorabilia signed, among other things. On campus this past Monday,…
This past Sunday, Oct. 2, a performer once hailed as the “cultural ambassador of India” visited Vassar to showcase her craft. In an event co-sponrtred by the Asian Students’ Alliance…
In 2014, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation gave Vassar a $750,000 grant to develop the Creative Arts Across Disciplines (CAAD). The grant is multifaceted in nature, providing for visiting artists…
As the nation faces a transitional time, pondering President Obama’s legacy and worrying about changes in the future, one institution hopes to concretize a narrative of vast importance to our…
In 2014, art critic Jerry Saltz published a Vulture.com article entitled “Zombies on the Walls: Why Does So Much New Abstraction Look the Same?” in which he laments a recent…
“I’m tellin’ the truth now / We’re all born naked and the rest is drag,” belts out RuPaul in his song “Born Naked.” RuPaul is not a philosopher, but here…
The term “opera” derives from the Latin word for work or effort, and putting on such an elaborate production certainly entails lot of work. “It’s the most challenging art form,”…
“Architecture is frozen music,” said German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. These two entities—architecture and music—have indeed proven inseparable throughout history. Sound, in its many forms, is as crucial to…
“How many people can say they know a composer, steward of the environment, musician, poet, playwright, lecturer, champion for underserved children, artist and inventor, and oh, yes, they are all…
