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(02/03/26 11:00am)
As a part of their “Reimagining Modern Art” collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston has revamped and recontextualized works from the early 20th century. In new individual galleries, presented alongside new information and highlighted for their skill and innovation, paintings by Remedios Varo, Joan Miró, René Magritte and more are exhibited with new life and light. Juxtaposed with works by Alexander Calder and Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, these new galleries become an explosion of color, a labyrinth of changing forms and an emotive well of oil, canvas and metal. Truly a collection of exemplary works from expressionism, surrealism and modern sculpture, the MFA useum of Fine Arts has done an excellent job at continuing a popular trend in museums of recontextualizing their works in new relationships to one another. As museums constantly endeavor to reconsider and look at works through new lenses, this new gallery expansion is an excellent opportunity to see how museums work with their collections. Additionally, as our nation quickly moves towards the values of the past in a conservative movement that is gripping our globe, modern art highlights the possibilities of a different future.
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Brandeis’ Department of Theater Arts has started 2026 by reminding audiences to appreciate the world around them and how quickly everything can change for a person. “The Baltimore Waltz,” written by Paula Vogel and directed by Brandeis’ own Jennifer Cleary, follows an adult brother and sister, played by Gianni Storti ’26 and Nina Lokshin ’26, respectively, and their journey through Europe in search of a doctor. Lokshin’s character, Anna, has contracted Acquired Toilet Disease, or ATD — a stand-in for AIDS — and it is terminal. Along the way, the siblings run into a variety of personalities, all portrayed by Matthew Magee ’26, who help make the trip more entertaining, risque and comedic for the audience.
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Vince Gilligan, the creator of the ever-popular shows “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” has done it again. “Pluribus,” Apple TV’s newest foray into science fiction (which, in my opinion, is its strongest genre — just see “Severance”), is Gilligan’s first science fiction story and his third New Mexico–centric show. As someone who grew up in New Mexico and has grown used to hearing people immediately say “Breaking Bad?” any time that I mention where I’m from, I was curious to see how Gilligan, who masterminded one of the most influential shows of the 2010s, was going to present New Mexico in a universe completely disconnected from that of Walter White and Saul Goodman, which is the setting Gilligan’s recurring crew has been working in for the better part of two decades. My biggest question: How would New Mexico be shown?
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As 2026 started to unravel, a new jaw-dropping children’s spectacle proudly roared onto the Adam Theater. “Library Lion,” directed by Ran Bechor, has ended its run and solidified itself as a truly meaningful show in an era of otherwise thoughtless entertainment. As a musical adaptation of the award-winning book by Michelle Knudsen with the same title, the audience was transported into this wonder-filled library, and, behind the children’s amusement, a clear message was portrayed. Through creative blocking, farcical acting, pseudo-melodramatic musical accompaniment and an impressively-built full-functioning lion puppet, “Library Lion” has taught its young audience the importance of empathy when faced with rigid rules while propagating literacy amongst children.
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With the airing of the hit Canadian television show “Heated Rivalry” in late November and December of 2025, the series thrust actors Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie into stardom at a blinding speed. The two actors have since appeared on multiple talk shows, presented at the 2026 Golden Globes and walked runways. They have also been selected as torch bearers for the 2026 Winter Olympics, which take place in Milan, Italy, from Feb. 6 to Feb. 22.
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Thank you Ben for sending in this week’s take. Tanking in sports is a pretty heavy topic. Almost every major American sport has a draft, which means that almost every American sport experiences some form of tanking. For those who are unfamiliar, tanking is when a team doesn’t believe it can achieve major success in a season and instead tries to perform worse and lose more games to receive a better chance of a higher draft pick. The NFL probably has the most egregious examples of this tactic since there isn’t a lottery in their draft. Drafts usually only give a better chance depending on win percentage whereas, in the NFL, whichever team does worst gets the first pick. It is true that equity is a hard thing to keep in professional sports, and tanking seems to be inefficient at preventing an imbalance in teams. Focusing on the NBA, the Dallas Mavericks received the number one pick despite having a winning record and a less-than-one-percent chance of getting it, the San Antonio Spurs have received a top-five pick for the last three years despite having a winning record for two of them, and the Oklahoma City Thunder are likely going to receive a top-three pick this year despite having the best win record in the league. The better question is, does tanking even work in the first place? At the end of the day, bigger market teams are always going to have more assets and it’s almost impossible for them to need to tank. Throughout the entire history of the Boston Celtics, an organization that has existed for roughly 80 years, they’ve had three losing seasons, yet they’ve still had over 30 top-ten picks. The biggest issue people have with tanking is that it makes for a terrible watching experience; personally I don’t want to watch my favorite team try to lose all of their games, and as a New York Giants fan, I haven’t. I’m going to have to disagree with Ben’s take, partially because I hate watching teams play poorly and partially because it just doesn’t work. Really bad teams tend to stay really bad and really good teams rarely lose their status and if they do it doesn’t last long.
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— Clarification: A source familiar with the matter has clarified that some of the language professors are "contingency faculty," meaning that if there is need to teach a class, they are hired; once this need is fulfilled, they are no longer contractually obligated to continue teaching at the University.
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Back in November 2024, I wrote in The Justice’s forum on the topic of immigration for its special 2024 presidential election issue. At the time, I laid out the case for Kamala Harris implementing a more compassionate immigration policy than the one she was campaigning on, should she be elected president. I described Donald Trump’s proposed immigration policies as “horrifying” and “fascistic in nature,” concluding that, “immigrants are not pawns to advance political agendas, they’re real people whose lives are affected by policy.” I will be the first to admit, the piece was optimistic, maybe even naively so, but I saw a real opportunity for progress if Harris won.
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This editorial board wants to express our gratitude to the facilities workers who plowed, shoveled and otherwise removed snow around the University campus, especially in light of the immense amount of snowstorm that crossed the east coast last week. However, this board also acknowledges that a snowstorm of this magnitude requires more than the standard number of employees to appropriately clear the snow.
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Brandeis Alumni Newsletter Editor:
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Dear Editor,
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Boston University Law Professor Raphael Stern’s discussion about any contention that may exist about Israel’s borders as reported by Chava Thiell appears to ignore the controlling international law concerning Israel’s status: Article 80 of the United Nations Charter, an international treaty, that supercedes any resolution of the Security Council or General Assembly that may conflict with it. (“Making Israel’s Legal Space: Discussions About International Law”).
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Last semester, if you attended the Brandeis Rose Art Museum and walked down the stairs to the left, you’d find a porcelain-colored room illuminated by soft minimalist lighting. Around the museum, paintings carefully placed on white walls made the room seem less empty, perhaps even less lonely. Various skillfully painted women surrounded me and each painting looked like it was from a world of its own.
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An electrical fire in the Berlin Chapel on the afternoon of Friday, Dec. 5 sent smoke through the building and prompted a swift response from students who rushed to rescue seven Torah scrolls from the historic prayer space. The damage from the incident was limited to the basement level women's bathroom but forced the temporary closure of the chapel and relocation of Friday evening and Saturday morning Shabbat services.
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