australia
Travel, Study Abroad: Students Share Spring, Summer ’22 Experiences
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Through Cornell’s overseas academic programs, several students have traveled and studied abroad this spring and summer.
australia
In the Midst of Australia’s Bushfires, Bird Population Plunges
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As a result, the best they can do is try to sustain themselves and hope they live to see another breeding season.
Arts & Culture
TEST SPIN: Katie Dey — Flood Network
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Who the fuck is Katie Dey stealing from? I’m scratching my head and listening to Flood Network over and over and over again, but I just can’t figure it out. At first glance it seems like there’s no way an album so steeped in internet culture, electronic beats and that post-ironic brand of savvy melancholia which has come to define bedroom maestros the world over could possibly have sprung into itself sounding so brashly little like anything else in the world. But — excepting Dey’s first EP, asdfasdf — it does. It’s an album to itself, and a remarkable, confusing, comforting, vulnerable, terrifying, difficult one at that.
Uncategorized
Strange Art From Down Under
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It would be impossible to experience the Johnson’s exhibit Icons of the Desert without being profoundly disconcerted. Though the works on display are extremely graphic (so much that they could be confused with the works of Piet Mondrian or Robert Slutsky from a distance — both of whom lingered on patterns as well), these paintings are not to be confused with typical “fine art.” What is disconcerting about this exhibition is explained by their source: