Cora Lewis
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Allison Williams ‘10: One of the ‘Girls’
Allison Williams ‘10, Lana del Rey doppelganger and former member of Yale improv group “Just Add Water,” will star in the new HBO series “Girls,” which debuts April 15. The actress returned to campus Monday to screen the first episode of the show for a group of fans and friends. Afterwards, she answered questions (such as, “How can I watch “Girls” if I don’t get HBO?” Answer: “Find that one friend whose parents get it, and leech off her.”) Below, she talks tattoos, women in comedy and why guys watch “Sex and the City.”
Notes Towards a Eulogy: Or, Some Nails in the Coffin of Postmodernism
According to the Victoria and Albert Museum (it’s British + I’m abroad this term = your WKND view peg), I missed postmodernism by five days.
Lupe (hardly a) Fiasco, in his own words
Throwback! Last year, feminist undergrad publication Broad Recognition interviewed the Ying Yang Twins about their misogynistic and violent lyrics after the crunk rap duo was selected to be a Spring Fling headliner.
Eisenman addresses admitted students, talks time and space
Immanuel Kant said that human beings make sense of our experiences by using the concepts of space and time. Famed architect and School of Architecture Professor Peter Eisenman said that architects tend to pick one or the other.
Philosophies, Past and Phuture: A Pheature Story
I heard a story recently. Maybe it was a joke. A philosophy joke. [Are those a thing? A man walks into a cave … ]
Society of Arts and Letters elects five Elis
Maybe it’s something in the water. Of the 10 artists elected to become members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters earlier this month, half have ties to Yale. Four alumni, along with English professor Michael Cunningham accepted seats in the academy, said Executive Director Virginia Dajani.
Iason Athanasiadis, Argonaut-Free
Fresh from the barricades of Cairo, freelance journalist and photographer Iason Athanasiadis spoke to students in Luce Hall on Monday, recounting dodging stones in Tahrir Square and hiding out in a mosque to escape the roving bands of Mubarak’s thugs. Athanasiadis has covered the Middle East, Central Asia and the southeast Mediterranean since 1999 and has written for The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor, among other international media outlets.
Roche “thinks big”
The night before Kevin Roche’s job interview with Eero Saarinen, the renowned architect, Roche stayed up all hours partying at the Stork Club in New York City with his cousin, an actress who had an expense account with MGM, his story goes. The next morning, at the interview, he fell asleep in his chair. But Saarinen gave him the job anyway, which led to a brilliant career, which led to a talk Friday night at the School of Architecture.
Naïve lessons ‘From Outer Space’
A young man on a stage finger-paints the universe. He reduces nebulae, black holes and novas to identical childish blobs. Then the juvenile artist crumples the page — literally adding another dimension to the piece.
Exhibit reviews work of heralded Modernist Kevin Roche
Kevin Roche is not an alumnus of the Yale School of Architecture, but a new exhibition of his work at the school celebrates him like a native hero.