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“Don’t wait for fate; wait for something that genuinely is healthy for you and brings you joy," said Marina del Solar '25. (Photo Credit: Frank Mckenna / Unsplash)

Destined to Date? The TikTok Influence on Modern Romance

Mandy Wu, Staff Reporter December 4, 2024

Is it fate, or just TikTok? As you scroll through endless videos of romance trends, it’s hard not to wonder: could love really be written in the stars or is it guided by viral theories that have to do...

This illustration depicting Little Red Riding Hood being scared of the Big Bad Wolf was published in France between the years 1914 and 1918. (Image Credit: MCAD Library, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

The Blurry Line Between Villains and Victims

Harper Quill, Staff Reporter December 3, 2024

From a very young age, we are brought up to understand that there are good people and bad people. When listening to bedtime stories such as Sleeping Beauty, or Little Red Riding Hood, we are taught to...

The exhibit is comprised of 18 citrus trees, each of which are in various stages of growth.

An Exhibition on Food Sustainability: A Review of ‘Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard’ at the Whitney Museum

Rida Nuamah, Staff Reporter November 23, 2024

Food sustainability.  It’s a term that’s recently become increasingly popular. In a world struggling with population growth, climate change, and natural resources, the conversation of sustainable...

Pictured is the set list of all of the characters and actors featured in 'Sleep No More.'

Discovering Sleep No More: A Mesmerizing Journey Through Shadows and Secrets

Alicia Yue, Staff Reporter October 31, 2024

And remember, fortune favors the bold. These are the last words you hear before you step off the elevator into your own journey.  Those who live in New York City are no strangers to the extraordinary,...

Here is the cover page of the seventh issue of the avant-garde magazine 'Dada: Literary and Artistic Review.' There were seven issues in total – this was the last. It was published in March of 1920. (Image Credit: Tristan Tzara, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Dadaism: The Avant-Garde Movement That Changed Art Forever

Alexandra Ghile, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

“gadji beri bimba glandridi laula lonni cadori gadjama gramma berida bimbala glandri galassassa laulitalomini gadji beri bin blassa glassala laula lonni cadorsu sassala bim” These are the...

Perhaps it is fitting that Chappell Roan’s fame came slowly, then all at once. Her sound is similar; it quietly builds up and then releases in a cathartic burst, faster than you can say “rom-pom-pom-pom.” (Photo Credit: Jason Martin, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

The Dizzying, Groundbreaking World of Chappell Roan

Krisha Soni, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

“My name is Chappell Roan. I’m your favorite artist’s favorite artist. I'm your dream girl’s dream girl.”  Her hair blazes a fiery red. Her makeup is perfectly over-the-top, accentuated by...

Here, Taylor Swift performs “Fortnight,” in the new The Tortured Poets Department set of The Eras Tour which debuted in Paris, France. (Photo Credit: Vixy13, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)
Photo Credit: Vixy13, CC BY 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

A Defense of Taylor Swift’s ‘The Tortured Poets Department’

Kate Hankin, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

I am not sorry if you do not like The Tortured Poets Department by Taylor Swift. It is not for you. It is not an album for radio play, casual Swift fans, pop music lovers, or even music critics. It is...

 The Church and Monastery of Santa Caterina embody Baroque architecture, with intricate detailing and ornate fixtures.

Sicily’s Rich Artistic History Understood Through its Intended Religious Lens

Willa Huber, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

We walk around museums to feel something, to be witnesses to art, narratives, and cultures that both precede and exceed our lifespans. We carefully inspect canvases and porcelain statues, fulfilling the...

“If I have a wish to express, it would be that my music may serve a purpose larger than mere music. If it will help in some way to bring about better interracial understanding in America and in other countries, then I will feel that the work is justified," said William Grant Still. (Photo Credit: Carl Van Vechten, from the Carl Van Vechten Photographs collection at the Library of Congress, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

The Life and Music of William Grant Still

Bianca Quddus, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

When the pantheon of great American composers is discussed, names like George Gershwin, Aaron Copland, and Leonard Bernstein often dominate the conversation. Yet one towering figure, whose symphonies and...

Here is a close-up look at Dua Lipa from her set at SWR3 New Pop Festival 2016. This performance landed a month after she released the critically acclaimed single, 'Blow Your Mind (Mwah).' The song would go on to win a Gold certification in Italy and the United States while reaching Platinum in Canada and the United Kingdom.
(Photo Credit: Harald Krichel, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons)

Dua Lipa: The Pop Sensation Takes the World by Storm

Mia Yang, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

Read and weep popstars: Dua Lipa is back again for another hit album, this time featuring eleven unique titles. Radical Optimism was her first album to debut at Number 1 on the U.K. Billboard. All weather...

Here are Niousha Rezai ’25 (at left) and me (second from left) with our 3-D printed ocarinas. Sam Muller ’24, who printed them for us, stands to our right. (Photo by Ava Lehmann; used by permission)

A Few of the Best Travel Instruments

Yasmine Salha, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

I am not what one would call a musical person. I possess no sense of rhythm, and a D-major scale I was tasked with reproducing on a middle school music theory test contained the note ‘W.’ With that...

Americans 18 years of age and older are estimated to spend 55.8 minutes per day on TikTok. (Photo Credit: Collabstr / Unsplash)

How TikTok is Bringing Back the Early 2000s

Kathryn Wu, Staff Reporter July 10, 2024

You look through the crowd of students waiting to enter the school building each morning, or those rushing down the hallway to their next class after the bell rings, or simply a group of teens passing...

'Color of the City' brightens the mood of passerbys with Matsumaya's use of vibrant patterns, a signature of his work.

Tomokazu Matsumaya Recolors the Bowery Wall

Katelyn Chiao July 10, 2024

In the early 1980’s, Keith Haring began the unconventional practice of public art, transforming the New York City subway’s unused advertising panels into series of chalk drawings. The continuous repetition...

In an assortment similar to that of Andy Warhol, the MoMA puts together many of the drafts Kollwitz created for 'Woman with Dead Child' (line etching with drypoint). Considered one of Kollwitz’s most poignant pieces, the MoMA reinforces this idea with the sheer amount of drafts collected on one wall. The piece also had a profound impact on the artist herself; she used her son Peter and herself as models for the piece, and she felt that she foreshadowed his death later on in WWI with this piece.

Finding Hope in Suffering: Käthe Kollwitz at the MoMA

Dara King, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

Walking along uncharacteristically dim walls of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), I hold up a magnifying glass to sunken faces, learning about their history in every etching. These faces reflect much...

Here is the crowd on December 9th, 2023.

New York City’s Screamo Scene: Active and Alive

Tristan Borlongan, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

The venue wasn’t particularly large, the main area was approximately the size of a classroom, with standard tile floors, plain white painted walls, and piping running throughout the ceiling. There wasn’t...

The showstopper dress that concludes the exhibit serves the purpose of a wedding dress made out of cellulose, silk, satin and lace, and was a gift to the Met from the Brooklyn Museum.

The Fleeting Nature of Fashion: A Review of the Met Museum’s ‘Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening’

Amanda Ro, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

With the whimsical chime of Disney’s Once Upon a Dream in the background, at first glance, the dusty gold face of sleeping beauty at the entrance of the museum glimmers in the light. As you walk further...

August Sander’s 'Osram Light Bulbs' combine the camera’s codependence on artificial light with the sales of a lightbulb company.

A Review of the Met Museum’s ‘The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography’

Ayana Chari, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

The walk to The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art takes you past the American sculpture room, the European Sculpture Court, and then into a little, hidden corner....

Gnarly Eats is located at 447 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11215, in the South Park Slope neighborhood. Prospect Park is only two blocks away.

An Exceptional Hamburger Restaurant: ‘Gnarly Eats’ in Park Slope, Brooklyn

Mandy Wu, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

It was April 29th, 2024, towards the end of Spring break, and I found myself wandering through the neighborhood of Park Slope, Brooklyn. The flowers were starting to bloom, painting the streets with splashes...

‘The Winds of Winter,’ George R. R. Martin’s forthcoming sixth novel to the A Song of Ice and Fire series (from which HBO’s Game of Thrones was adapted), is thirteen years in the making. Just what has the author been up to in all that time? (Image Credit: Ertaç Altınöz, www.deviantart.com/ertacaltinoz, www.instagram.com/ertacaltinoz, used with permission)

Is Winter Coming? Everything Going on Behind George R. R. Martin’s Long-Anticipated Novel ‘The Winds of Winter’

Rajin Tahsan, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

The first season of HBO’s epic fantasy TV series Game of Thrones premiered on April 17th, 2011. A Dance With Dragons, the fifth book of the A Song of Ice and Fire novel series (ASOIAF, from which Game...

'Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich Bin Ich / I am Me,' a new exhibit at the Neue Galerie, brings together more than 70 of the artist's works that span decades and styles.

A Pursuit of Independence and Identity: ‘Paula Modersohn-Becker: Ich bin Ich / I am Me’ at the Neue Galerie

Allegra Lief, Staff Reporter July 9, 2024

“I am Me, and I hope to become Me more and more,” wrote Paula Modersohn-Becker in a letter to her close friend Rainer Maria Rilke, following her split from her husband Otto Modersohn.  Such a landmark...

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