I’ve found myself in a bit of a tourist funk… or maybe I’ve found myself thinking that it’s near impossible to escape a tourist funk. After all, vacation takes on an impossible role in contemporary life. Vacation is (at least functionally) a coping device for the relatively privileged that takes on all the weight and challenge of one’s perpetual monotonous labor: A faint light at the end of a tunnel that one can point to during any workplace hardship or grueling week. As a reward for that labor, privileged in its compensation but nonetheless inevitably miserably capitalistic, one may get a chance to briefly experience a wonderful sedentary artwork, striking natural feature, oasis of relaxation or distinctly bustling metropolis. The lifetime of same-old same-old interrupted by the once-in-a-lifetime brush with eternity.
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Special Feature: The Making of A New Kind of Nutcracker
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18 company dancers, 13 guest children, and several adults – stage veteran actors and dancers – are scheduled to perform in this year’s nutcracker.
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Special Feature: Cultural Changes in Cornell PMA
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Besides a lack of opportunities to perform, many students also struggle to find opportunities for genuine mentorship within the department.
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An Interview with Author James Ross B.A. ’75 J.D. ’82: ‘Hunting Teddy Roosevelt’
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“The Roosevelt/Dooley dialogs are intended to show that untested prejudice can dissipate when exposed to the object of that prejudice.”
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Incarnate Rage & Blackness Today: Student Artist Feature of Margaret Groton B.F.A. ’21
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While disruption has become the soil for new patterns and rhythms to take form, Groton paints, sketches and draws as if nothing’s changed; like the famous lo-fi hip-hop girl animated by Juan Pablo Machado who writes endlessly in spite of everything going on around her.
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Marsupial Lion Invigorates the Ithaca Music Scene
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Marsupial Lion fills the gap between overly chill bedroom pop and new age alternative, harnessing a sound that feels as genuine as it is unique.
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Rising Artist Spotlight: Isabel Padilla ’23
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I focus on creating pieces that combine activism and art; I use my creativity and artistic voice to fight for justice.
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The Power of Community in ‘The King of Staten Island’
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Listening to the stories of the firemen and watching them work, Scott begins to better understand that his actions influence others — he is not an island.
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A Senior’s Video Celebration of Campus
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As photographers, we are acutely aware of the dramatic change in perspective that can be caused by a slight shift in position, and this is especially true for aerial imagery.