In spite of the Zoom fatigue at the end of the day, Humanities Day 2020 offered a compelling series of lectures, performances, and readings of contemporary creative work.
In "Bread, Butter, and Power", Meleko Mokgosi adapts a historically exclusionary European genre painting tradition for a postcolonial, southern African context.
Florence and the Machine mix their mystical, magical, medieval sound with world-weariness at the Huntington Bank Pavilion, speaking out against recent abortion bans in America and scolding toxic masculinity.
Last Wednesday, the Oriental Institute and Special Collections Research Center received two portable museums from a “random confederation of unlike-minded vagrants”.
Fatima Khan and Shreya Sood set up a photography exhibit in Sanctuary Cafe to open dialogue about the complexity of the Desi identity post-immigration.
Brooklyn-based painter Mike Cloud spoke with fellow artist Oscar Murillo at a reception for his exhibition, 'The Myth of Education", currently on view at the Logan Center Gallery.
UT performed "Eurydice", Sarah Ruhl's play based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, in a retelling that captures the story's tragedy through unique metaphor and deep characters.
“Caught in the chasm between formal ethno-racial invisibility and informal hypervisibility, Iranian Americans work, love, and live through a core social paradox.”
Where the incessant sense of urgency permeating the original tracks left the listener feeling pumped yet drained at the end, the remade versions instead leave the listener in awe.
Like a lo-fi snake charmer, Mitski coaxed out viewers’ deepest, most self-pitying selves with her cathartically raw lyrics, inviting them to revel with her in their collective misery and optimism
Like a lo-fi snake charmer, Mitski coaxed out viewers’ deepest, most self-pitying selves with her cathartically raw lyrics, inviting them to revel with her in their collective misery and optimism
As Halasa emphatically expounded during the event, her book aims to dispel the dust cloud of disillusionment and terrorism espoused by major media outlets about the Middle East.
The latest "Arts and the Nuclear Age" event brought together Japanese poet Takako Arai and translator Jeffrey Angles for poetry readings after nuclear fallout.
From “Aerial Aesthetics: Artworks and Their Environments Around 1900” to book readings from campus novelists, this annual celebration of the humanities encouraged a deep sense of curiosity.
"It’s MASS-SEDUCTION, not MASS-EDUCATION, which is a noble and worthy cause for sure, but it’s not the title of my record,” announced St. Vincent in a Facebook livestream.
With bold performance art, 6018North delivered an immersive experience of urban architecture both past and present.
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