Word: designators
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...development in the Societies of the World category has been slow: of the seven classes approved so far, only one is not a refitted course for the new curriculum. But Harris said that because the Societies of the World category is new, it makes it harder for professors to design courses for the category right away. Kenen said that David M. Cutler, an economist and a former divisional dean of the social sciences, organized several lunches with faculty last year in order to urge them to create new Gen Ed classes that fit in the Societies of the World...
Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 is not just a triple threat. As an actor, director, playwright, painter, and costume and set designer, he’s a far more multifarious artistic entity. He started his theater career at the age of six with an appearance on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and he was extensively involved in community and professional theater throughout high school. Despite his numerous theatrical accomplishments, Vartikar-McCullough says, “Theater was never my focus; it was always very much visual art.” It?...
...realized vision, to a new vision of reality itself. Actors’ daily performances take place under Caden’s watchful direction and the concave glass ceiling of the enormous warehouse he’s purchased to stage the piece. The set design becomes more elaborate as time goes on, evolving along with the piece into a façade-metropolis, where Caden retreats from the outside world. He even finds an actor to play himself.Kaufman’s work has always defied classification. The internalized aspects of scripts like “Being John Malkovich?...
Cold War. Now that we seem to be at odds with Russia again, it might be worth checking out the design show Cold War Modern: Design 1945-1970 at London's V&A Museum. The exhibit features architecture, film and pop culture on both sides of the Iron Curtain. From Sputnik and the first images from space to Stanley Kubrick films, paintings by Rauchenger and renderings of Buckminster Fuller's 1962 plans for a geodesic Dome over Manhattan, the pieces all work together to present a snapshot of the Cold War era. Through Jan. 11. Cromwell Road, London...
Arts and Crafts. The Museum of Arts & Design, formerly known as the American Craft Museum, has found a new home on Columbus Circle in New York City. The museum has 250 pieces in its permanent collection - everything from Arts and Crafts furniture to teapots and 1940s jewelry. The museum's first temporary exhibition, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary, features a jacket made out of dog tags and a dress made out of rubber gloves. If it all sounds a little mad to you, at least check out the building, designed by Portland, Ore.-based architect Brad Cloepfil. 2 Columbus Circle...