It seems nearly impossible to walk around campus and not find people streaming shows and movies from their laptops — huddled in a corner booth at The Loop or holed up in Perkins, their screen split between organic chemistry notes and Netflix.
The annual DEMAN Arts & Media Weekend, which brings together creative Duke students who aspire to become successful in the media industry, took place last Friday and Saturday.
For years, New York and Los Angeles have been the dual epicenters of the arts and media world.
In the past, the term “a cappella” referred to Jewish or Christian choral music sung without accompanying musical instruments.
Between 12 years at 20th Century Fox and her current position as the executive vice president of drama development at NBC, Lisa Katz, Trinity ‘95, has overseen the development of numerous hit TV shows, including “Bones,” “Empire” and “This Is Us.”
If you’re not a graduate student — or a graduate student in the Nicholas School of the Environment, specifically — there’s a good chance you may not have heard about its leading publication, Eno Magazine.
This semester, Duke’s oldest theater group is diversifying their repertoire in more ways than one; senior Sophie Caplin is directing Duke Players’ first musical — award-winning “Once on this Island” — performed by an all-black cast.
Upon entering the main gallery of the John Hope Franklin Center, I found myself feeling slightly overwhelmed.
Next to the waiting room entrance in Duke Hospital, there’s a glass case, filled with swirls of color on canvas that contrast with the sterile, white walls of the rest of the building. “Imagined Places,” the small sign reads.
Nobody walked in the Sheafer Lab Theater on Thursday.
When asked what Sunday Salons mean to her, MFA student and film curator Lexi Bass said, “For me, there’s an element of church in it. There’s a way to engage in spirituality with a group people, in the dark.
As the hustle and bustle of the new academic year settled in and Duke welcomed its new students, the Nasher Museum of Art, too, welcomed a new collection of paintings, with “Disorderly Conduct: American Painting and Sculpture, 1960-1990.”
There is no easy way to discuss death. Even when couched in pleasant language or harmless euphemisms, the topic is universally repulsive for its uncomfortable connotations, its alarming inevitability, its dreadful uncertainty.
The Duke Wind Symphony will celebrate the beginning of a new season, the arrival of new students and the inauguration of President Vincent Price all in one with the Celebration Concert Thursday in Baldwin Auditorium.
If you’re a regular at the Duke Coffeehouse or simply pop in for a milkshake or a coffee every now and then, you’ve probably glanced over the Polaroids of current and former employees hanging on the back wall, just beyond the bar.
Stories come in many forms, from the written word to the silver screen. One form that has recently flourished, though, is the podcast.
There’s a sign by the bus stop between Swift Ave. and Smith Warehouse, with an arrow that leads up a winding path and past a fence to a building covered in bright, colorful designs that seem out of place in the wooded surroundings.
Last Thursday, the Branson Hall Theater on East Campus was filled with people who came in to hear Ann Lauterbach read her poems. A discussion session with Lauterbach on Friday at East Duke building followed the event.
On the first floor of the Friedl Building at Jameson Gallery is an exhibit whose two wooden doors at the entrance open for everyone. Launched Aug. 28, the “Be Patient | Se Paciente” exhibit displays the works of Dr. Libia Posada, a surgeon and contemporary artist from Medellín, Colombia.
Stacks of 16mm film canisters—each painstakingly labeled with duct tape and Sharpie—tower over a pair of enormous iMac monitors and a man who seems acutely aware of the comical contrast in technologies.
