While talking with music instructor Pei-Fen Liu about one of her students, senior Jerry Chia-Rui Chang, a number of superlatives kept cropping up: “extraordinary,” “fantastic,” “dedicated.”
When Chris Vitiello, in his fox costume, yanks a piece of paper out of his typewriter and smashes stamps on it, the audience gasps.
For many Duke students, the arts are an integral aspect of their lives — academic or otherwise.
Tucked around the side of the Arts Annex, eight satellite dishes loom over the landscape.
This Friday, Duke is invited to celebrate a famous period of African-American culture and dive into the lustrous atmosphere of Manhattan nightclubs saturated with sensual cabaret singers, frisky jazz, gin cocktails and shiny pearls.
What is “normal”? How do socially-constructed conceptions of normalcy limit the types of narratives that are constructed and propagated?
Founded in 2011, TAASCON is a joint effort between Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University to raise awareness of Asian American issues, create a space for Asian American students to comfortably discuss their experiences and concerns and cultivate a supportive community.
In the two months since the Rubenstein Arts Center opened, it has hosted two world premieres, an artist in residence and an opening attended by over 3,000 people. But the arts building still has a long way to go before it becomes the student space it is supposed to be.
From 2 p.m. to 2 a.m., a continuous stream of artists will perform as part of the annual Brickside Music Festival, the Coffeehouse’s biggest event of the year.
While incoming first-year students are visiting during Blue Devil Days, a Wired! Lab project team, “Statues Speak,” will display the first phase of its result to new students and other Duke visitors.
On Saturday afternoon, the Nasher Museum of Art will host an event called “Disability and the Arts” as the culmination of Disability Pride Week.
Have you ever thought about what North Carolina would be like if there was no tobacco farming?
On March 12, senior Kelsey Graywill’s visual art showcase “Makings of a Mind” at Louise Jones Brown Gallery concluded its exhibition.
Partnering with other on-campus groups, including DukeArts and DEMAN, Kip Frey, director of the Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship Initiative, launched the StudioDuke program this year.
Last year, Sophia Santillan, assistant professor in the practice in the department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, saw an NBC News clip about Repair Café. Now, she’s working with the North Carolina chapter to bring Repair Café to Duke.
The first time I attended a poetry reading was last Thursday at Brody Theater on East Campus.
Two weeks ago, presidential portraits of the Obamas were unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery.
Roger Beebe, who received his Ph.D. in Literature at Duke in 2000, came back to campus last Wednesday to present four of his multi-projector films at the Bryan Center’s Griffith Film Theater.
If you got on a bus with only one other person on board, would you sit down next to them? Probably not, right?
When sophomore Lucas Tishler hears music, he says he can see the notes in front of him.
