“LOVE IS CALLING”: Immersive infinite beauty at the ICA
Sidonie Brown, Co-Editor-in-Chief
November 21, 2019
Over her 90 years of life and artistic innovation, Yayoi Kusama has accomplished a great deal with polka-dots as her medium, often finding larger ideas of existence and meaning within their forms. She once said, “Dots are a symbol of the world, the cosmos. The earth is a dot, the sun, the stars are...
MFA exhibit showcases South African fashion
Jeremy Suh, Staff Writer
April 11, 2019
Balancing fashion and comfort has always been a challenge, but rising South African designers have found the way. South African fashion booms with unique designs. Their patterns and color schemes are unmatched, all the while making them cool to wear under the hot climate. Furthermore, the clothing roa...
Junior Semi-formal 2019 Photo Gallery
Phoebe Kallaher, Peter Finnerty, Anoushka Mallik, Zoe Tseng, and Jake Zucker
March 27, 2019
Ballerina paintings portray emotional aspect of dance
Zoe Tseng, Staff Writer
January 8, 2019
The typical image that comes to mind at the word “ballerina” is a girl in a pink tutu holding an excruciating pose. Many paintings of dancers center on the beauty of this pose and the ballerina’s serene expression. Edgar Degas is especially known for these types of paintings, but a new exhi...
Review: M. C. Escher: Infinite Dimensions
Tina Little, Staff Writer
April 30, 2018
One of the most well-known “impossible” shapes is the Penrose Triangle, a shape seemingly visually possible, but physically impossible. Well, the inspiration for this triangle did not come from intense mathematics, but rather prints by Dutch graphic artist M. C. Escher. In the 1920s, Escher began crea...
Review: Presidential Portraits
Ella Kitterman, Co- Editor in Chief
April 7, 2018
Former President Barack Obama’s presidency was full of firsts. He was the first Black President of the United States. The first to legalize gay marriage during his term. The first to refuse campaign finance from the government. He took our country in a different direction and his final statement as he l...
Review: (un)expected families
Priya Karumanchi, Staff Writer
March 25, 2018
Both color and black-and-white photographs fill the the gray room with dimmed lighting. The silvery-gray background helps to really showcase the bold images. Many photographs fill the exhibit all made with the same media, but all so different at the same time. From black and white photos from the 19th ...
Gallery Review: Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada
Nick Eddinger, Arts Writing Editor
December 18, 2017
Tucked away in the back hallways of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, “Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada,” contains an engaging and informative experience, comparing two brilliant woodblock print artists of the 1800s, Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Utagawa Kunisada. The grandeur of these two artists is well-ca...
