Campus Canvas: Oct. 10
A weekly space highlighting the creative pursuits of student-artists. Luis Osvaldo Arguello | Class of 2022 Check out more of Luis’ art on Instagram @seeluisrun.
Arts
Tattoo spotlight: Students’ ink prove deeply personal, artful
To our parents’ generation, tattoos are a defining characteristic of a low social standing. Yet this is changing rapidly, as the sentimentality behind most tattoos nowadays render them a form…
Caras Exhibit provides intimate glimpse into dance world
To communicate without speaking: an idea that sings of freedom and power to a young boy who is bullied for the way he speaks, an idea that provides expression and…
‘There There’ author discusses writing process, Indigeneity
Back in June, as summer began and the countdown to move-in day commenced, I, like the rest of the Class of 2023, received my copy of Tommy Orange’s debut novel…
Deece chef enlivens Poughkeepsie with vibrant murals
How do you know when a piece of art is finished? This is a question that all artists struggle with, but one that Vassar chef and graffiti artist TC Ik…
Dead Funny Records rides the waves of tradition, neo-indie
In the neighborhood Shimokitazawa in the Setagaya Ward of Tokyo, there is a Y-junction, the confluence of two narrow streets, with a little Shinto shrine. Despite the surrounding streetlights, solitary…
Third eye and beyond: Ratnam traces memory, violence
“I didn’t make the film,” director Jude Ratnam insisted about his 2017 movie “Demons In Paradise.” “It all came to me, and I had to do it, I didn’t plan…
Poet Robert Hunter brought the Dead to life, dies at 78
I’d like to think that I’m self-aware. Which means I have to be honest when it comes to my clichés, and being a crunchy dude among many crunchy dudes here…
Campus Canvas: Oct. 3
A weekly space highlighting the creative pursuits of student-artists. Lucy Ackman | Class of 2022
Dezaki film confronts comfort women issue
Nobukatsu Fujioka is a bespectacled and neat-looking man. He is also a purveyor of Japan’s history wars. As a graduate student at Sophia University in Tokyo, Miki Dezaki interviewed Nobukatsu…