Arts Archives

‘How to Live a Good Life’ Is a Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy

February 18, 2020

| The City College of New York, The Graduate Center

"How to Live a Good Life" is billed as a “guide to choosing your personal philosophy.” From religions to ancient tenets, each chapter examines a different way of thinking. Read more ›

A Pianist’s Search for Honesty in Music

January 31, 2020

| The Graduate Center

Pianist Han Chen has spent his career as a performer searching for one particular truth — honesty — in pieces by classic and contemporary composers alike. Read more ›

Book Places Contemporary Authors in Conversation with Literary Legends

January 29, 2020

| City Tech

A new book from City Tech's Caroline Chamberlin Hellman casts the work of current authors in conversation with that of literary legends like James Baldwin and Herman Melville. Read more ›

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‘Imagining Queer Methods’ Tackles New Ways to Do Queer Theory

January 24, 2020

| College of Staten Island, The Graduate Center

A new book co-edited by Prof. Matt Brim imagines ways to study queer methods in more nuanced, less traditional ways. Read more ›

Being an Epicurean: A Philosophical Guide for Modern Life

January 23, 2020

| The Graduate Center

A new book from Graduate Center Prof. Catherine Wilson details how epicureanism fits into the modern world. Read more ›

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How Berlin Rebuilt Its Classical Music Scene After World War II

January 22, 2020

| Baruch College

After World War II, Berlin musicians rebuilt the city's classical music scene by channeling the trauma of their experiences — they called it "rubble music." Read more ›

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From Woolf to Hemingway: The Transformation of Literary Dialogue

January 9, 2020

| School of Professional Studies

Prof. Elizabeth Alsop looks at the development and transformation of literary dialogue in fiction novels throughout the centuries, giving it a "greater capacity for signification." Read more ›

Graduate Center student Valerie Gritsch next to David Bowie mural in Brixton, South London

How David Bowie Fans Transformed Brixton with a Street Party

January 8, 2020

| The Graduate Center

It's been four years since hundreds gathered in front of a mural in Brixton to mourn David Bowie's death with music and community. Brixton hasn't been the same since. Read more ›

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American Christianity’s Obsession with Native American Salvation

December 30, 2019

| Queensborough Community College

"Messianic Fulfillments: Staging Indigenous Salvation in America" by Prof. Hayes P. Mauro examines Christian evangelical movements of the 16th-19th centuries' efforts to transform Native Americans into the "ideal American." Read more ›