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A Conversation with J Henry Fair

In person, J. Henry Fair, whose photographs grace the walls of the McCabe Library Atrium, is witty and self-effacing, yet rather mysterious. There is a sardonic edge to his words and a pensive air to his manner. During my interview with the

February 7, 2013

A number of students set up posters in Bond to discuss current humanitarian projects

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J. Henry Fair Showcases Eco-Fouls at McCabe

How can disaster be beautiful? Dare to find out. Currently on view in McCabe Library atrium until February 20, J. Henry Fair’s “Extraction and the American Dream” is both breathtaking and shocking. The exhibit is comprised of a series of photographs of potentially

January 31, 2013

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Pop Minimalism to the Max: The xx at The Electric Factory

Early in The xx’s Sunday set at Philadelphia’s Electric Factory, Romy Madley Croft, the band’s guitarist and female vocalist paused between songs to say, “We finally made it.” She was referring to the cancelation of the band’s last Philadelphia performance during October’s Hurricane

January 31, 2013

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What I Saw Over Winter Break: Picasso Black and White

Pablo Picasso painted Woman Ironing (La repasseuse) at the end of his Blue period, an era brought on by the suicide of his friend, Carlos Casegemas. The nature of the suicide was intensely tragic—Casegemas committed suicide when his lover left him for

January 24, 2013

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Where the Inconceivable is Absurdly Beautiful: The BMA’s New Contemporary Art Wing

When viewers pass through the Baltimore Museum of Art’s (BMA) Modern Art galleries to enter the newly renovated Contemporary Wing, which just opened on November 18 after a year-long closing, it feels as if they have walked into a different museum. This

December 6, 2012

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We’re Artists, Too: Kitao Exhibit Gives Space for Student Art

At their most stressed, Swarthmore students seem to pride themselves on being some of the busiest students in the country. To the busy Swattie who heaves an overstuffed backpack and holees up in Cornell basement, trading mugs of caffeine for sleep, extracurricular

December 6, 2012

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Haverford Exhibit Asks, What Can A Body Do?

Haverford’s Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, located on the first floor of the Whitehead Campus Center, is a wholly different kind of space than Swarthmore College’s own List Gallery. Where the List Gallery is brightly and warmly lit, with golden wood paneling and a

December 6, 2012

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Giving Thanks or Why Can’t I Write?

It’s come and gone. No, not Thanksgiving — I’m referring to the yawning abyss whose arrival I fear with the very quarks of my being: a lack of ideas, an inability to write. Read along as I try to figure out why

November 29, 2012

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Speechless: A Strange Encounter with Manon de Boer’s Resonating Surfaces

Sometimes, art leaves us with incredibly intense emotions. We fall madly in love with one painting, nearly convinced that our true soul mate exists as pigment applied onto canvas. Another painting might provoke the exact opposite reaction: it may make us recoil

November 29, 2012

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Tattoo Talk

Some inject heroin, I inject ink. Both have the same effect; but tattoos are more expensive and just as addictive. Everyone has scars, I just pay for mine. Some call it mutilation, I call it therapy. I have been getting tattoos for

November 1, 2012

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A Conversation with J Henry Fair

J. Henry Fair Showcases Eco-Fouls at McCabe

Pop Minimalism to the Max: The xx at The Electric Factory

What I Saw Over Winter Break: Picasso Black and White

Where the Inconceivable is Absurdly Beautiful: The BMA’s New Contemporary Art Wing

We’re Artists, Too: Kitao Exhibit Gives Space for Student Art

Haverford Exhibit Asks, What Can A Body Do?

Giving Thanks or Why Can’t I Write?

Speechless: A Strange Encounter with Manon de Boer’s Resonating Surfaces

Tattoo Talk

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