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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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Halloween Help from Your Professors

Maybe Sandy spoiled your weekend costume-shopping plans. Maybe your past two weeks have been midterm-ridden or paper-laden. Maybe you’re holding out for that holiday epiphany, that sudden vision of a clever, eco-friendly, socially conscious and just-so slutty costume that’s worthy of your

November 1, 2012

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Free in Fall

A leaf, browned and stiff, detaches. Having surrendered the solid security of a tree branch, it has naught but the autumn breeze to hold onto. The wrinkles and folds that the mere idea of winter etched now determine its path: an irregular spiral

November 1, 2012

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Beautiful and Bizarre as Life: Dancing around the Bride Debuts at the PMA

Contemporary art can often seem cryptic and inaccessible to viewers. Devoid of recognizable figures, it leaves us with random dabs of paint, slashes of lines and absurd juxtapositions, making it appear impossible to even understand how the work speaks to us. And

November 1, 2012

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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

Halloween Help from Your Professors

Free in Fall

Beautiful and Bizarre as Life: Dancing around the Bride Debuts at the PMA

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