As of 6 p.m. on Monday, May 3, visiting book artist Amanda Nelsen’s project “Paperworks” was completed. The books, made from the cast-off pages from college library printers is 16 feet long. Together, Nelsen, friend Sarah Hulsey, book arts program director Katherine Ruffin and conservation librarian Emily Bell worked feverishly over the past few days to combine the individual sections of the book into a completed structure.
The Galen Stone Tower is one of Wellesley’s icons. It is featured on every brochure that is handed out to publicize the school. Seeing the view from the top, which Amy Allport ’10 calls “the best on campus,” is one of the fifty things to do before graduation.
A television show about a small town that is not as quaint as it seems, “Happy Town” clearly wants to be “Twin Peaks,” the cult classic that premiered 20 years ago. However, it does not hold up well. Happy Town is the nickname given to the fictional Haplin, Minn.
The memory of arriving in the fall for the 2009-2010 school year seems like it’s from a previous lifetime. With finals popping up around the corner, it is easy to forget what happened in the last year. Much went down, and here is a reminder. Now people wake up in the morning and decide whether or not they feel like P.
DIS)APPERARANCES is a video installation by Cinema and Media Studies major Jessica Dill. For her senior thesis, Dill spent two semesters developing and creating this piece, which is now up for viewing in Jewett. The installation consists of three videos projected on three of the four walls of the room in which it is installed.
Shakespeare Society puts on "As You Like It" for their spring production.
The setting was intimate in Houghton Chapel on Saturday night as the five musicians of the chamber music group, Musicians of the Old Post Road, ended their 21st season with “Conversation Galantes: Music of the French Baroque.” They sat in a small grouping close to the audience.
To celebrate National Poetry Month, the final installation of the Newhouse Center for Humanities Distinguished Writers series featured Carolyn Forché and Valzhyna Mort. Forché and Mort are the first and last poets to be featured and did not disappoint.
As a chronic scaredy-cat, I thought I was safe when entering the movie theater to see what couldn’t possibly be more than a superhero spoof. I was wrong, and as a warning to any fellow weaklings, do not see “Kick-Ass” if you are scared of gore, people burning to death, blood, guts, rotting bodies or any combination of the above.
Saturday’s performance of “Bracko” and “Cassandra Float Can,” a collaboration between poet Anne Carson, dancer and choreographer Rashaun Mitchell, dancer Marcie Munnerlyn and artist Robert Currie, was in many ways a typical “artsy” event—sparse, intellectual, unconventional and a little baffling.
Indie singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen can currently be found on the reputable independent record label Kill Rock Stars, a small company that has built a name for leftist, feminist and anti-war political sensibilities channeled through an alternative punk rock sound that Thao exuberantly embodied with her expressive voice and resounding acoustic guitar at WZLY’s Spring Concert Extravaganza in Tishman Commons on Wednesday, April 21.
The Davis Museum welcomed the very first exhibition of Pardhan Gond art in the United States this Sunday by hosting a family-oriented event with food, arts and crafts, story time and a scavenger hunt. Awaaz, Wellesley’s South Asian a capella group, performed beautifully throughout the event.
The Google Books project has made thousands of out-of-print and antique books readable again through the internet. Through its search-and-scan mission, Google Books has a vast collection of ancient titles available for perusal. No longer does anyone need to search through dusty library archives to find a musty book.
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Artist Amanda Nelsen works on a new bookbinding art installation for the Science Center called "Paperworks."
A new light and sound installation is up and running in the Davis Museum. "Something like Fireworks" glows with lights of different colors and washes the viewer in soothing sound.
A capella group Awaken the Dawn hosts Boston College's Against the Current in a night of song.
"Doctor Who" returns after a year long hiatus with a new doctor, new companion, new TARDIS and new production team.
