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Emily Wishingrad


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Rose satellite gallery comes to the corner of Main and Moody

The Rose Art Museum has expanded into Waltham. Rosebud, the new satellite gallery of the museum, which sits on the corner of Moody and Main Street, is a gallery focused on the Rose’s growing video collection. Chris Bedford, Henry and Lois Foster director of the museum, says that the expansion comes with the intent of broadening the Rose’s scope to become more of a museum for the Waltham community.


Guerilla Opera comes to campus for yearlong residency

This year, the New Music Brandeis is hosting a yearlong residency with the Guerilla Opera. The group is a Boston-based, self-proclaimed “experimental” organization that focuses on creating new operatic pieces for intimate settings. The residency will work with students throughout the year in preparation for a production of six opera scenes produced by students and professionals from the Guerilla Opera. The performances will be shown as part of the annual Leonard Bernstein Festival of the Creative Arts in the spring.


Memoir gets a rebirth on the Broadway stage

Around this time four years ago, author Alison Bechdel was speaking to a room of incoming first-years about the orientation reading for that year,Fun Home(2006). Today, those first-years are college graduates, and Bechdel’s graphic novel has been translated into a musical and set on the Broadway stage, in the process garnering five Tony Awards.


Chris Burden passes away

Los Angeles-based artist Chris Burden passed away at age 69 on Sunday, May 10. Burden passed away of a malignant melanoma—an illness that Burden and his family had been keeping hidden from the public for 18 months, according to a May 10 article in the Los Angeles Times.


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