Last week’s group of senior artists set the bar high for thesis exhibits, but the artists this week have managed to meet it.
For the next four weeks, the Zilkha Gallery will display the theses of graduating seniors in the Wesleyan Art Studio Program.
Want to hear something new and fresh on the radio? Javelanche, which provides a healthy serving of the brand spanking new and the best of the rest, can help satisfy your new music cravings on Tuesday nights at midnight
A single grain of rice is representative of you; another is of me. Of All the People in All the World’s main concept–equating each person with a grain of rice–is startlingly fresh and deceptively simplistic.
Utilizing different mediums in their depictions of post-Soviet Russia, Visiting Instructor in Art Sasha Rudensky’s ’01 wall-to-wall span of beautifully composed and saturated images and Russian artist Olga Chernysheva’s looped video projection entitled “March” (being simultaneously exhibited at the Zilkha Gallery) both foreground human experience while conducting investigations into identity: investigations governed by both rediscovery and reproach.
The intoxicating, harmonious high-pitched tones and energetic yet subtle movements of traditional Hindi music and dance filled Crowell Concert Hall on Friday, Nov. 21 during Samsara, the University’s annual South Asian cultural showcase.
A weird and wonderful merging of modern and classical musical elements marked the four pieces written by University graduate composers and performed by the acclaimed FLUX Quartet at Crowell Concert Hall on Thursday, Nov. 13.
Musicians German and Klavdia Khatylaev performed a concert of indigenous Siberian folk music last Wednesday evening at the World Music Hall. The Khatylaevs, who hail from the Republic of Sakha in Russia’s Siberian region, specialize in a unique brand of deeply spiritual folk music that express a profound connection to nature.
Every person has his or her own preconceived notion of what photography is. We take our own photographs; we receive them; we can see them in books, advertising, on the Internet, etc. What we don’t always understand about photography is that its meaning continually changes over time, resulting in conflicting views towards photography’s fundamental properties. The new exhibit at the Davison Art Center (DAC), entitled “Documentary or Art? Photography in the Long 19th Century, 1839-1914” rises from this tension.
Boy Crisis’s sound is (according to a profile in The Guardian) so “hip and now that it hurts”, combining Studio 54-style disco-electronica with the spunk and glam rock of CBGBs. Their synthesized melodies are fresh and flamboyant while their fragmented yet harmonious vocal rhythms are reminiscent of 80s pop-funk. The band consists entirely of Wesleyan alums: Victor Vazquez ’06 (vocals/synthesizers), Tal Rozen ’06 (vocals/synthesizers), Alex Kestner ’06 (bass/synthesizers), Lee Pender ’07 (guitar/synthesizer) and Owen Roberts ’07 (drums/sampler). We chatted with the band members about the group’s origins, bevy of collaborations and what Claire Potter might think of their name.
Bear Hands has been around since 2006 and is brimming with potential. The band’s twisted lyrics combined with their guitar driven melodies and the bitterly sweet tone of Dylan Rau’s ’07 voice produce fun, upbeat songs. The band’s fresh sound and cool vibe is bound to win over swarms of people. The quartet consists of Ted Feldman ’09 (guitar/percussion), Val Loper (bass/percussion), TJ Orscher (drums/vocals) and Rau (vocals/guitar), who we chatted with about the band’s current successes, upcoming plans, and the state of the Brooklyn music scene.