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TSA Formosa

The Taiwanese Student Association presented their annual culture show; Formosa, on March 16 in Levine Ballroom. The immersive showcase captivated the audience with performances that demonstrated the meaning of unity through their theme: Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday commemorating the ancient poet, Qu Yuan. The festival consists of dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi. Through this year’s theme, TSA encouraged the audience to embrace unity and to celebrate the meaning of togetherness. 

Reflecting on the past: Student art of today

This past Wednesday, March 13, an exciting new post-baccalaureate art exhibition opened in the Dreitzer Gallery. Titled “Visceral Reflections,” the exhibit features four artists and a variety of art mediums. The four featured artists are Brianna Howard, Kelly Mangan, Pavol Roskovensky and Noelle Ventura. Each artist explored different themes, often drawing on their own backgrounds to help influence their work. At both entrances to the gallery there is a table with a black binder on it which contains information on each artist, the themes within their work, and their artistic process.

Ancestral suffering, present victories: Noé Martínez’s ‘The Body Remembers.’

How do we represent our suffering? Is it individual, communal, ritual or ancestral? Noé Martínez aims to tackle these feelings through the exhibition “The Body Remembers.” This exhibition opened on March 13 at the Rose Art Museum.

Student Art Spotlight: Mala Smith

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Echoes of resilience

On Feb. 16, two individuals from Russia who embodied the essence of resistance passed away: Alexei Navalny, an outspoken opposition politician, and Dmitry Markov, a renowned photographer and social worker.

Brandeis' Russian culture talent show

Over the past week, the Russian Studies Program and Brandeis Russian Club organized a series of events to celebrate Brandeis Russian Language and Culture Week 2024. On Wednesday, Mar. 6, the program and club hosted the annual Student Talent Show at the Rappaport Treasure Hall. A tradition since 2008, the Student Talent Show is dedicated to highlighting all talent; students do not need to speak Russian or be enrolled in Russian Studies to participate. This year’s show consisted of 14 acts and all but one were performed in Russian. The acts performed in Russian were composed of both Russian heritage and non-heritage speakers, and their material came from all over the post-Soviet world. 

'Flee' and its effective use of animation

The animated documentary “Flee” is full of powerful moments and visuals that touch the hearts of many viewers, earning the documentary an Oscar nomination. The film is centered around the character of Amin, a man who became a refugee from Afghanistan, as he tells the story of his childhood to a friend whom he met later in life. The animation techniques used in this documentary set it apart from the others I have watched, making it an especially enjoyable and impactful work. 

‘Wolf Play’ thrills Brandeis audiences

“What if I said I am not what you think you see?”

The Hypercube concert: The future of music as composed by Brandeis

On Saturday, March 2, Hypercube performed musical pieces composed by current Brandeis students as a part of the Brand New Music concert series. Hypercube is a quartet that pushes the boundaries of chamber music, with a focus on performing cutting-edge new music. Last weekend, they performed never-before-heard pieces by Brandeis composers. 

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Repatriation and Replicas

Museums and stolen objects

Sounds of Brandeis: The Kaleidoscope Concert

The Brandeis Concert Series is an incredible and rare opportunity to see free live music every weekend in the Slosberg Recital Hall. The series includes both student and faculty performances with a diverse line-up including jazz, chamber singing, a Ghanaian drum and dance ensemble and never-before-seen pieces that were composed by Brandeis students, faculty and alumni. Upcoming performances include Hypercube, a Brandeis original composition, on Mar. 2 and Evan Hirsch’s piano recital on Mar. 8, with various other performances on Mar. 16, 17, 23 and 24. 

Museums or mean girls? Societal worship of public art museums

To the readers who have enjoyed my museum reviews in the past, thank you! I am happy that there have been so many opportunities through The Justice that have allowed me to talk about art in a way that I usually wouldn’t. However, in my time going to many of these museums, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, I have found a particular trend in the structure and the purpose of the museum that I find interesting. I would like to define my meaning of worship in this paragraph. When I say worship, I am describing the actions of the devout museum goers. When I went to see an exhibition at the Met in December 2023, I saw many people standing and ambulating around the art, but I saw even more with jaws wide, hands over mouths and speechless “ohs” spilling from their mouths. Yes, art is beautiful, important and meaningful and I would probably be very upset in a world without art, but museums inspire us to look up at art, placing it beyond us in a way that is to separate us and the art.

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