Category Archives: Art

For Your Consideration – And They’re Off! Edition

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Qiong Wang

By Jim Keller I maintain that the Oscar race can be likened to a horserace where each studio bets on its thoroughbreds and hopes that they can at least place at the end. The studio is the owner, the public … Continue reading →

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Selma – The Movie

Posted on January 31, 2015 by Qiong Wang

By Susan Russo Ava DuVernay has made a movie, based on the true events depicting the 1965 marches from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that still resonates today. With a cast led by David Oyelowo, a young British actor, playing the … Continue reading →

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Into Africa: Spotlight on the Rockefeller University Employee Art Exhibition

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Nicolas Renier

By Qiong Wang Living in New York, most of us often find ourselves trapped inside concrete jungles, busy and occupied all the time. Sunshine and the view in the distance from our windows are often blocked bluntly by another building. … Continue reading →

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For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch, Vol. 3 Edition

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Nicolas Renier

By Jim Keller Ah, the Best Supporting Actor and Actress races, such tenuous categories where one can know everything one week and nothing the next. Take last year’s Best Supporting Actress race for example—who could’ve guessed that frontrunner Oprah Winfrey … Continue reading →

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Culture Corner

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Nicolas Renier

An interview with famed vocalist and vocal coach Dorian Holley (Part One of Two) By Bernie Langs Looking over the resume of Dorian Holley, one marvels at the long list of names of the biggest successes in popular music for … Continue reading →

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The Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Nicolas Renier

By Ben DiMatteo Now in its 56th year, The Peggy Rockefeller Concert Series is decidedly unknown to much of the campus community. But those familiar with the program know that some of the most accomplished musicians in the world played … Continue reading →

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Culture Corner

Posted on January 11, 2015 by Nicolas Renier

Concert Review: Steve Winwood and Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers at Madison Square Garden, Sept. 10, 2014 By Bernie Langs Suffice it to say I expect a lot from music, including filling the need for a communal experience of substance … Continue reading →

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For Your Consideration– Ones to Watch, Vol. 2 Edition

Posted on October 27, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Jim Keller This month we examine the leading ladies of the Best Actress race. The category remains ever flimsy—especially with comparison to the number of men competing for Best Actor this year. It is sadly a sign of the … Continue reading →

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Culture Corner: Chuck Berry and the American Songbook—An Appreciation

Posted on October 20, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Bernie Langs I saw Chuck Berry, the founder of the music genre of rock ‘n’ roll in the 1950s, in concert in the midst of my life’s blur of the mid-to-late 1980s at a fairly small New York City … Continue reading →

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For Your Consideration – Ones to Watch, Vol. 1 Edition

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Jim Keller With the conclusion of last month’s Telluride Film Festival, it’s time to kick off our three-part “Ones to Watch” series. This year, I’m shaking things up a bit by beginning with the Best Actor race—primarily because there … Continue reading →

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Culture Corner: Summer Film Roundup

Posted on September 16, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Bernie Langs By way of introducing the highlights of my experiences with selected movies I watched in the summer of 2014, I am oddly reminded of the Roman Emperor Nero and the infamous popular image of him as the … Continue reading →

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Culture Corner

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

An Interview with Richard Torregrossa, Author of Terminal Life: A Suited Hero Novel and Cary Grant: A Celebration of Style By Bernie Langs Several years ago, I was checking the blurbs of recommended articles and reviews indexed by the Arts … Continue reading →

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For your consideration – Cannes Shakedown Edition

Posted on July 30, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Jim Keller It’s become a regular thing for me to take a bit of a hiatus after May’s Cannes Film Festival. This is largely because there simply isn’t much to write about in the Oscar world, but if I’m one … Continue reading →

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An Extraordinary Early American in Europe

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Susan Russo Ira Aldridge was born in New York in 1807 to free black parents: Daniel, a clerk and preacher, and Luranah Aldridge. Ira was schooled at home until 1820, when at the age of 13, he was enrolled … Continue reading →

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Culture Corner – The “Exotic Foreign” of Wes Anderson and Haruki Murakami

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Bernie Langs There is much made in some classical and modern philosophies of the concept and ambiguity of what is termed “the other.” In addition, one can find obscure musings on the idea of “the stranger” from the pens … Continue reading →

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Life on a Roll

Posted on July 7, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

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Photos contributed by Elodie Pauwels (http://elodiepphoto.wordpress.com)

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Culture Corner: book review “Seiobo There Below” by László Krasznahorkai

Posted on May 11, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Bernie Langs I would bet that it is safe to say that anyone reading these pages is more than busy in this life and that many of you who continue to read for pleasure are overwhelmed by the truth … Continue reading →

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For Your Consideration – Cannes Preview Edition

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Jim Keller Now in its third year, this instalment of For Your Consideration takes a look at those films set to cross the Croisette this month. While the Cannes Film Festival is not primarily known as an Oscar launching … Continue reading →

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Mistaken for Strangers – A Rock Star’s Brother Peeks Out of His Shadow

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Jason Rothauser In the film’s opening sequence, Matt Berninger, nattily dressed in a three-piece suit, fusses with a beach umbrella before finally settling down for an interview in the park. Berninger is the lead singer of The National, an … Continue reading →

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For Your Consideration – Crystal ball edition!

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Nicolas Renier

By Jim Keller Last year’s Crystal Ball edition yielded four of nine eventual Best Picture nominees. Gravity, American Hustle, The Wolf of Wall Street, and Nebraska as well as Best Picture winner, 12 Years a Slave, were all discussed as … Continue reading →

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