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Genesis Belanger’s Commentary on the Insincerity of Condolences

A review of Through the Eye of a Needle, a sculpture exhibition at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

by Anika Khakoo on November 1, 2020November 2, 2020

Masks and Motherhood: Reflections on Simon Stone’s Medea

A consideration of a modern reimagining of an ancient play

by Mika Hyman on March 8, 2020March 7, 2020

The Wyeths: A Family Portrait

“The Wyeth saga began with N.C.: a maverick unimpressed by his industrializing world who became infatuated instead with adventure, romance, and old America––back when the connection between humanity and nature was more immediate.”

by Pat Macdonald on December 8, 2019December 8, 2019

For Yan Pei-Ming, One Portrait Size Fits All

“As I sat on the bench in the center of the exhibition room, dwarfed by the mammoth panels of the tryptic, I considered my reaction.”

by Tara Shirazi on November 24, 2019

The Sculptures that Surround Us

Brief descriptions of artistic objects you walk past on Princeton’s campus.

by Alex Jacobson, Andrew White, Mina Quesen, Serena Alagappan, Tess Solomon on November 17, 2019

The Virtue of Ambiguity

A Review of the Film: Parasite

by Drew Pugliese on November 10, 2019November 10, 2019

One-Minute Devotions

“I wondered what or who—a simple puzzle, a stakeless one, but one that, in context, made my expectation of strangeness a mystery lived.”

by Tess Solomon on November 10, 2019

Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven

“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”

by Peter Taylor on October 20, 2019October 19, 2019

Nass Recommends: (Sandy) Alex G’s House of Sugar

“House of Sugar takes us to these places, into the real labyrinths of drug addiction, the landscapes and dreamscapes where the whole thing actually goes down.”

by Pat Macdonald on October 20, 2019October 19, 2019

After A Fashion

A profile of Kotami and its founders, Sofie Kim ’20 and MC Otani ’21.

by Tess Solomon on July 31, 2019July 31, 2019

Emo Rap: A Eulogy

“Lil Peep’s ghostly vocals float drowsily over maximalist emo-trap beats without drowning in them…leaving us with a taste of what might have been: the soaring emotional heights to which rap, the most notoriously heartless genre, almost rose.”

by Pat Macdonald on March 3, 2019April 7, 2019

To Proclaim a Dying World

“A museum setting might sterilize the dread of the inevitable ending at which any chronological exhibit explicitly in conversation with environmentalism must arrive. But the accessibility of this juxtaposition right up front makes sure one is clued into that inevitability and made to feel it violently.”

by Nora Wildberg, Tess Solomon on December 9, 2018December 11, 2018


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