Danika Fears
Danika Fears
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Your hipsterness is over
Hipsters. Are you annoyed yet? I’m aware this word generally brings a flurry of scorn. But, please, bear with me. We’re going to revisit the case of the hipster one last time — well, hopefully.
Elis exhibit summer art
After spending hours toiling at intensive summer programs around the world, student art majors are exhibiting the products of their hard work.
Artspace brings together music, art, hipsters
Artspace Underground, the self-professed “hipster dance party” to promote the Orange Street not-for-profit gallery and the arts in New Haven, is almost a year old.
Yalie intertwines spheres of drama, law, activism
Imagine a country where women held the majority of seats in government.
Viewing the film of French cooking
Whether you’re the next Julia Child or the kind of person who has only mastered the art of microwave cooking, you’re bound to learn a thing or two at this weekend’s “Festival of Food and Film,” sponsored by the Yale Sustainable Food Project, Whitney Humanities Center and the Film Studies Center. At the very least, you might be doing something good for humanity.
Yale to catalogue old photos
In the coming months, the archivists poring through the University’s vast collection of photographs will unearth stills from Yale’s storied past.
Exhibit celebrates 100 years of Whiffs
Treading the halls of Sterling Memorial Library this month is a blast from the Whiffenpoofs’ past.
ART REVIEW | Maritime art sails into YCBA
Summer is gone, but the sea can still be found this month at the Yale Center for British Art.
Blood-drive art moves to N.Y.
There won’t be blood inside the sculpture building’s gallery. Art School sculpture student Katherine Levant ART ’10, who proposed a performance art piece exploring the idea of blood’s regeneration, found another venue for her work after Yale turned down her proposal; it is currently on view at the Zach Feuer Gallery in New York City.
UP CLOSE | Art, post-Shvarts
In a long uninterrupted video, Aliza Shvarts ’08 sat naked in a shower stall holding a cup streaked with blood between her legs. She claimed to have documented a nine-month process during which she artificially inseminated herself and took legal abortifacients to induce multiple miscarriages. Staff reporter Danika Fears investigates the senior project that shook Yale.