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(03/05/19 11:00am)
Brandeis and Wellesley College co-hosted this year’s annual Student Sustainability Leadership Symposium on Sunday. Students from colleges all over New England, including Tufts University, the University of Connecticut, Bentley University and Boston University, gathered at Brandeis to discuss and learn more about sustainability issues and practices. The symposium featured presentations given by students and professionals.
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The Brandeis Asian American Task Force is circulating a petition calling for the creation of a faculty position in Pacific Islander Studies, which would be filled by Prof. Leanne Day (GRALL). Day, a Pacific Islander, is currently finishing her second year of the Florence Levy Kay Fellowship in Asian American Pacific Islander Studies.
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On March 1, the Student Committee for the Rose Art Museum and the Brandeis Association for Music and Concert Organizers hosted the SCRAMCo coffeehouse, an event filled with performances from Brandeis students and visiting musicians.
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Following an interview with Venezuela’s de facto dictator Nicolas Maduro, Univision anchor and news host Jorge Ramos and his crew were detained in Caracas. Ramos had questioned Maduro about the lack of democracy and humanitarian famine crisis in Venezuela, in addition to the torture of political prisoners who oppose his regime. When Maduro was shown a video of Venezuelans eating garbage, the interview was promptly cut short. Ramos and his production team were detained, and their equipment was confiscated. Although they were promptly set free, many have seen this action as a direct attempt to stifle the truth and journalism in Venezuela, where citizens are experiencing one of the worst humanitarian crises this century. How do you view this detainment in the context of the plight of the Venezuelan people?
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The United States flag is an iconic symbol, one that elicits an immediate and powerful reaction. Howardena Pindell takes advantage of that involuntary response in her piece “Separate but Equal: Genocide AIDS.”
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On Sunday, actor Tony Shalhoub came to Brandeis for a question and answer session in the Wasserman Cinematheque. Shalhoub has a prolific career in plays, movies and TV shows; he is well-known for his portrayal of troubled homicide detective Adrian Monk in the show “Monk” for which he received multiple awards, and he currently plays Abe Weissman, father of Miriam “Midge” Maisel in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.”
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In her talk on Saturday afternoon, Howardena Pindell discussed her experiences with racism and sexism as a pioneering Black artist. Pindell’s exhibit, “What Remains to be Seen,” opened at the Rose Art Museum on Friday, nearly 25 years after her Rose debut on Nov. 6, 1993.
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ARTISTIC INFLUENCES: Howardena Pindell shared stories from her life and how they impacted her art in her talk on Saturday.
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One of the many striking pieces in the newest exhibit at the Rose Art Museum is not a finished piece, but a stencil made by artist Howardena Pindell. In 1970, she began hole-punching cardstock to create stencils. She used to place these stencils over the canvas and spray paint hundreds of small circles onto it. Pindell would repeat this process until a painting was complete.
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COMBINED STYLES: The combination of different textures and concepts is a captivating aspect of Pindell’s works.
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OVERCOMING ADVERSITY: Ms. Pindell managed to succeed in the art world despite racial prejudice through the decades.
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POINTLLISM: The use of dots and points allow viewers to form their own interpretations of the pieces.
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The Rose Art Museum opened up to the public for the first time in 2019 last Friday. The curators chose to honor Howardena Pindell, an underappreciated Black artist who innovatively used materials such as perfume and baby powder in her art and experimented with irregular canvases and unconventional techniques. Throughout her life, Pindell persevered in the art world despite facing the Jim Crow racism of 1960s and 70s. The Rose chose to display a collection of her work which spanned nearly five decades, ranging from homages to her father to work surrounding contemporary political activism.
(01/29/19 11:00am)
Disappointment is inevitable when reading awards show nomination lists; it’s ridiculous to think that a film or a performance can win “best art.” These lists are less about honoring artistic achievements and more about recognizing valiant efforts. Ignoring for a moment the fact that these awards are determined by million-dollar campaigns and heavily biased against genre films, the nominations are still reliable indicators of quality — especially if they are determined by peers in their respective industries. Observe the recognition given by guilds: Screen Actors, Directors, Editors, Producers, Production Designers, etc. The Oscars ceremony is a culmination of these guild nominations, creating a compromise that mostly benefits the network by nominating and rewarding popular films in order to secure higher ratings.
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The Massachusetts Board of Higher Education signed off on a new system under which Massachusetts will monitor the financial circumstances of private colleges in the state. The plan, which the BHE agreed to at Tuesday’s meeting, aims to ensure that students are aware in advance if their school is planning to close or merge with another institution, according to a Jan. 23 Boston Globe article.
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Profs. Peter Gould PhD’02 (PAX) and John Ungerleider (PAX) held a launch for their free open-access textbook titled “The Inner Peace Outer Peace Reader” on Wednesday. The textbook contains a majority of the readings for the course Inner Peace and Outer Peace, which Gould and Ungerleider have taught every spring semester since 2010 as part of Brandeis’ Peace, Conflict & Coexistence Studies Program.
(01/29/19 11:00am)
Traveling abroad presents a number of novel and challenging opportunities, and to the panel of students who spoke on Wednesday, studying abroad was both a learning experience and an opportunity to examine their own identities. Sponsored by the Brandeis Black Students Organization and in collaboration with the Office of Study Abroad, the “Black and Abroad” event centered around individuals’ experiences abroad as people of color. The seven panelists had each studied in different countries, ranging from England to Chile.
