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Evoking emotions of compassion amid performances laced with an artful blend of humor, tragic suffering and self discovery, student performers portrayed the violent plights suffered by women globally through their rendition of “The Vagina Monologues,” by Eve Ensler, this past weekend. With a diverse cast of students, stemming from departments across the university, the production […]
In Hebrew it’s called emet. In English, however, perhaps most of us know it better as truth. At Brandeis, we encounter this word daily. It’s thrown around in conversations and pursued in campus clubs. Other times, students have protested for it. Mostly, at Brandeis, we search for truth as a way to realize social justice—in […]
This week, The Rose Art Museum celebrates the opening of three new exhibits from artists Ed Ruscha, Sam Jury and Walead Beshty. In Beshty’s exhibit, titled “On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B)” and “Walead Beshty: Untitled” he has transformed the floor of the gallery into a mirrored glass floor where viewers are […]
As new seasons of television shows get into the thick of the drama, “Grey’s Anatomy” is no exception. The show ended last season with a major cliffhanger—a tool that the show uses to engage the audience each season—and this season picked up right where it left off. The most recent epic cliffhanger was a plane […]
Audience after audience was left in awe after the Boston Colonial Theater’s production of “Memphis” this winter. The plot of “Memphis” is based on Memphis disc jockey Dewey Philips, who was one of the first white DJs to play African American music in the 1950s. Huey Calhoun (Bryan Fenkart), a quirky white man, falls in […]
“Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters” is exactly how the movie is advertised. It follows in the tradition of those wintertime action movies loaded with copious amounts of explosions and action that seem to prequel summer blockbusters. Hansel (Jeremy Renner, who played Hawkeye in “The Avengers”) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton, the Princess in “Prince of Persia” […]
The Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center celebrated the 25th anniversary of the anthology, “Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition 1150-1950,” compiled by Judith Tick and Jane Bowers last Sunday. At the event, Judith Tick, the Matthews Distinguished Professor of Music at Northeastern University, spoke with grace and clear passion, detailing her life as musicologist […]
Silky smooth jazz, good company and the nice backdrop of the Mandel Atrium are a trifecta for the perfect afternoon. Brandeis students, faculty and Waltham residents were quick to discover this during Brandeis’ Jazz Ensemble performance Wednesday. Initially advertised as a performance by the entire Brandeis Ensemble, the show simply featured Professor Robert Nieske (MUS) […]
Seeking to portray the casualties and atrocities of warfare, Linda Bond, artist and visiting scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center, presented “The Artist as an Advocate for Social Change” to the Brandeis Community. As an integral component of ’Deis Impact, a festival promoting social justice and advocacy, the event explored the portrayal of traumatic […]
As the current seniors begin their last semester at Brandeis, the studio art majors are now working on their senior theses. Aliza Sternstein ’13 is a studio art major with a focus on painting and a minor in economics from Long Island, N.Y. Sternstein said she has “always been interested in art, though I am […]
