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With the majority of Usen Castle set to be torn down starting next semester, the Pottery Club has been searching for a new home — so far to no avail, club leaders say. To raise awareness of their plight, the club staged mock studio hours outside the Shapiro Campus Center on Thursday.
“She Kills Monsters” presented by Brandeis Ensemble Theater, details twenty-something high school English teacher Agnes’s (Joanna Murphy ’17) quest to unearth more about her late sister Tilly (Jessica Kinsley ’20) through Tilly’s favorite game,“Dungeons and Dragons.” Riddled with epic fight scenes and mythical creatures — some of the scariest being high school cheerleaders — the play handles its themes such as the sister-sister dynamic sensitively, highlighting the sentiments felt but never expressed outright.
Marius von Mayenburg’s play “Martyr” unearths troubling ideas regarding religious extremism and its roots through the story of one young German teen’s enchantment with religious fundamentalism in relation to the mundane teenage experience. Mayenburg, one of Germany’s forefront playwrights, uses his character, Benjamin, to discuss religious extremism and its roots, a study of religion extremely relevant in contemporary society. This past Thursday, Brandeis University’s Center for German and European Studies brought together several scholars to discuss the play’s sensitive themes in relation to the current world, priming the Brandeis community for the show’s production next weekend.
An old friend arrived on the Brandeis campus on Friday: Chris Bedford, the former director of the Rose Art Museum, and current Wagner Wallace Director of the Baltimore Art Museum. Bedford came back to Brandeis to talk about the upcoming Venice Biennale, an international art show at which Bedford will be co-curating an exhibit by contemporary painter Mark Bradford with the Rose’s curator at large, Katy Siegel.
Brandeis is known for its array of performing groups, from dance to music to comedy. However, while many students probably have a friend or two within some of these groups, there are many amazing performing troupes on campus that do not get enough recognition.
This week, justArts spoke with Rebecca Bradshaw, a theater director, producer and public relations director in the Boston area who directed Brandeis Department of Theater Arts’ “Big Love,” which was performed this past weekend.
Old tires and broken toys are not the first things that come to mind when presented with the idea of sculpture. We tend to think of lavish sculpture gardens of marble and bronze — the perfectly crafted cherubs and women that the first sculptors wrought. However, with clear beauty and clean lines comes a price — marble and bronze are not the most feasible materials for a young artist in New York, a problem Chakaia Booker was forced to address. She discussed her solution to this dilemma, a much more untraditional medium — a product of economic necessity — in a lecture this past week at the Kniznick Gallery in Brandeis’ Women’s Studies Research Center. As a young woman in New York with plenty of ideas, but a threadbare wallet, she chose to take in the world around her — the trash-strewn New York City of the 1980s — and use it to build her ideas into reality. Booker’s work melds life and art down to its core parts: each piece making up each sculpture is an object previously rejected, left for trash on the street, and Booker reinstates these objects into society by giving them new meaning within her works.
Undocumented immigrants often face challenges in attaining a college education, including fluctuating immigration law, rising costs associated with becoming a citizen and varying admittance policies for private and public institutions, a panel of speakers said on Wednesday.
In college, most of us have hopefully grown to appreciate the people who make our education what it is ― those who teach and those who give us the tools to learn and indulge our own interests. These people are more than just mentors and educators. While it is easy to forget this fact in the crazy whirlwind of college, it is important to step back and appreciate the University’s staff and all they add to the University’s creative environment. This is the focus of the JustArts exhibit in Spingold Theater’s Dreitzer Gallery.
This week, justArts spoke with Ingrid Schorr, the director of the Office of the Arts at Brandeis, who organized the JustArts exhibition that went up this past week. The exhibition, JustArts, while similarly named to the Justice’s Arts section, justArts, is not affiliated with the newspaper.
When Rosemarie Garland-Thomson ’93 Ph.D. first came to Brandeis, she had a variety of identities. Mother, wife and English teacher were among them. Yet she avoided thinking of herself as disabled, despite being born with a congenital difference. One of Garland-Thomson’s arms is shorter than the other, and she has a total of six fingers.
Correction appended.
This week, justArts spoke with Kaelan Lynch ’17, who is directing the play “Circle Mirror Transformation,” to be put on by Free Play Cooperative this upcoming weekend.
Museums are the pivot of a city; by attracting tourists and locals to their fine collections of art — ranging from Renaissance Europe to Medieval Asian art — they allow us a peek into the rich cultures of the East and the West.
This week, justArts spoke with Orli Swergold ’18, a participant from the Brandeis in Siena program this summer whose work is featured in the “New Work” exhibit.
Twisting Italian villages — red rooftops, azure skies and dusty balconies — are the architecture upon which summer fantasies are built. Merely gazing at glossy photographs in books of northern Italy is enough to engender a piercing desire to book a plane ticket, quit your job and fail your classes in favor of the golden hills guaranteed to welcome you as a guest. However, while photos can inspire desire, paintings allow the viewer to participate in a discussion with the scene and the painter’s own reaction to it. Gazing at a painting allows the viewer to see through someone else’s eyes, a more organic way of becoming ensconced in a place the way the painter did — the way the smells of freshly baked bread tickled the artist’s nose or how the golden sunshine shrouded her shoulders and soothed her soul.
“Human beings have dignity; they don’t have a price. That’s why human beings can’t be bought or sold,” said Prof. Berislav Marušić (PHIL) in an interview with the Justice, paraphrasing a conversation he had once had with his son. “What’s dignity?” his son prompted. Marušić replied, “Dignity is the idea that every person gets to make decisions for themselves” — to which his son artfully responded, “Well then, why can’t I watch TV whenever I decide?” And so his young, amusingly ruminative son rendered the 2016 recipient of the American Philosophical Association Sanders Book Prize speechless.
Tucked inside the University of Massachusetts Boston’s newly constructed University Hall, Brandeis Prof. Todd Pavlisko (FA) proudly welcomed guests to the opening of his art installation “Now’s the Time.” Pavlisko has worked with UMass for a while now; more specifically he has collaborated with Prof. Robert Carter, the director of the chemistry department. In an email interview with the Justice, Pavlisko explained, “[Carter] and I have been using chemistry and science to make art for about a year and a half. The opportunity for the exhibition came out of this collaboration.”
The University has launched a new series of meetings and updates to promote transparency regarding the Board of Trustees and the University finances, University President Ron Liebowitz announced in a Friday email to students, faculty and staff.
The City of Waltham is the 23rd safest college town in the country, according to a Sept. 7 SafeWise ranking of the top 30 safest college towns nationwide.