Tiffany Christian wrote a new post, Night and Light , on the site The Arts in...
You said in class something about how reading a good book could change your view on life. I just finished reading End of Night, a collection of essays about the importance of a dark sky. The author...
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Matisse vs. Picasso. This 19th century heavy weight battle was something I was unaware of before today. It seemed like a foreign concept: rivalries in the art world. Artists seem like such a carefree...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Forbidden Music and Jazz, on the site The...
Another crash course in history. We’re speeding through giant swaths of time aren’t we? This one was a little more digestible than the 500 Years of Art History because we go to listen to some pretty...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, The Nose, on the site The Arts in New...
Dimensionality is the first word that comes to mind in reflection of the opera. Both the opera itself and the venue were so large that it seemed to incorporate multiple worlds into one. Kentridge’s...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Describing Music, on the site The Arts in...
I came in when he was talking about tube amps and the warm sound it produces. As someone who dabbled in guitar in middle school, he reminded me a lot of my old guitar teacher. The things he said about...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Transparent Things, on the site The Arts...
This dance performance reminded me of the beauty of form. The push of muscle against skin, and the elegantly pointed feet showed the ability of bodies to be works of art. The dance punctuated the music...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Classical Music, on the site The Arts in...
People forget about the way music is supposed to sound. Certainly, I am guilty of that. As the quartet started the first Mozart piece, the quality of the sound was shocking. My ears are accustomed to...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Peeping Tom Artists?, on the site The...
As a society we get sort of a thrill at knowing the intimate details of a stranger’s life. The best examples we have are the paparazzi hounding the celebrities. Ironically enough as a culture hungry...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, I don't like this guy. , on the site The...
Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground’s narrator struck me as incredibly unlikable even though I can only judge him from the excerpt we heard. He is unreliable because he is self destructive beyond...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Cynical Realism , on the site The Arts in...
When I went to China 2 years ago, I had the pleasure of going to an art gallery. We saw various styles of art but the piece that particularly caught my attention was Yue Minjun’s “Inside and Outside...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Trans Hollywood, on the site The Arts in...
While La piel que habito was certainly a strange and unexpected film, I think it spoke a lot about identity, especially about crossing genders. Vicente always felt like a man even after his forced...
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From An American Tail and West Side Story, youth Immigrant has shaped New York into a cultural smorgasbord. Second generation immigrants and people who came here as children make up nearly a half of...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Language as a barrier, on the site The...
The readings in the first 2 chapters of blood relations were particularly enlightening for me as it had explained some of the things I was curious to know regarding black identity and country of...
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Richard Wright, author of Native Son and Black Boy, connected Socialism with the black community. We read Native Son in AP English, and I wondered about Wrights connection with the communist scene in...
View ArticleTiffany Christian wrote a new post, Rosa Guy, on the site The Peopling of New...
Rosa Guy was a Trinidadian writer who grew up in the Harlem Renaissance. I wasn’t surprised that they didn’t mention her in the book, because she doesn’t really fit into the time frame that...
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