Samuels will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Schwab will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Bowman will be part of the keynote conversation during Duke’s DEMAN Weekend at 7 pm in the Nasher Museum of Art on Friday, November 2.
Students in a Theater Studies production class work with Torry Bend to adapt a beautiful but tainted masterpiece for the puppet stage.
A look back at the impact of contributions made to the arts across Duke during the Duke Forward campaign and beyond.
Deborah Rutter, president of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., was recently a special guest speaker for a new Duke Arts course: Introduction to Performing Arts Management and Entrepreneurship.
As part of a Duke Performances residency for the dance theater piece she created with Dance Heginbotham, the acclaimed illustrator exercised the storytelling skills of Duke's drawing students.
This multimedia exhibit by Danny Kim (MFA EDA '18) and Peter Lisignoli (MFA EDA '13) takes viewers to one of the world's most talked about—but least visited—areas.
Pop América exhibit will spotlight crucial Latin American contributions to Pop Art.
The faculty sculptor, photographer, and videographer reflects on three decades of teaching and collaborating at Duke
Rising senior Ibanca Anand updates a traditional dance form for an egalitarian age.
Duke student of environmental studies will join peripatetic artist Torkwase Dyson in community-based project.
Frederic Rzewski’s piece is performed by Imani Winds and the Fisk Jubilee Singers
The annual poetry salon highlights the full spectrum of Duke poets
Hacker, designer, and activist, Ashley Qian aims to make the tech world more inclusive with a children's book
A class graphic design project reconsiders orthodoxy and goes surprisingly viral.
The Nasher has had an unprecedented influence on the growth of the arts at Duke in the ten years since its establishment.
Some days he’s an artist who teaches and some days he’s a teacher who makes art, but either way, Professor Jeff Storer thinks it is a happy advantage that he can be both—for him and his students.
Joseph Conrad meets the Unabomber under the direction of Jody McAuliffe
Duke's first Esbenshade Professor of the Practice of Visual Art is also an experienced, exacting, enthusiastic teacher
At the Venice Biennale, sonic mosaics and flag fusions propose a pluralistic nationalism
When Aaron Greenwald came to Duke in 2007 to be interim director of Duke Performances, concerted efforts to raise the profile of the arts at Duke were in their early ...
Violinist-composer creates songs and fiddle tunes to accompany historic film of Piedmont life in the mid-20th century
Graduate composition students arrange tunes for Folds' upcoming tour with new music ensemble yMusic.
It was a confluence of interests that led Harry “Hap” Esbenshade III to endow a chair in the arts, but it started with a trip. He and his daughter were ...
Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey's writing workshops are open to any undergraduate who's keen to put thought into verse.
Actor and Duke alum Lazar on the Duke theater class that changed his life
This past fall, Jon-Sesrie Goff moved from Philadelphia to Durham to enroll in Duke’s Master of Fine Arts In Experimental and Documentary Arts (MFAEDA) program. In the ten years since ...
In fall of 2014, The Archive, a long-celebrated undergraduate publication at Duke University, presented its third Salon in Von der Heyden Pavilion on Duke’s West campus. Salon is a celebration ...
The visiting artists combined the nerdy pleasures of interactive gaming with serious science.
Duke in Chicago is a new six-week, two-course summer program for entrepreneurs who love the arts and for artists who want to become entrepreneurial.
Dancing, studying, eating and looking – Duke students are finding many ways to connect with masterpieces by Spanish-born artist Joan Miró at the Nasher Museum. Hundreds of students have visited ...
2014 Sudler Prize winner Wenjia Xu's string quartet traces an arc from hydrogen to DNA.
Baldwin Auditorium reopened this past fall after a two-year, $15-million renovation funded by the Duke Endowment. In the year since, it has proved to be a beautiful place to hear ...
In this role-playing game, students learn about both art and markets
Duke Divinity School premiered St. Luke Passion by Scottish composer James MacMillan in Duke Chapel.
Students in a new Duke course learn entrepreneurship by documenting local entrepreneurs.
Kevin Poole. (T’98) (directed Phil Watson in his Senior Distinction project, “An Iliad.”) Studying and practicing theater at Duke enriched my college experience immensely. A thread within the fabric of ...
Phil Watson is a senior in Theater Studies at Duke who recently presented his senior distinction project, An Iliad, in Shaeffer Theater. It was directed by Kevin Poole, a 1998 ...
Samba and tap dance. Line dance and hip hop. Capoeira and twerking. These are all dance styles that have their origins in the African diaspora and were topics for the ...
Phil Watson, a Trinity senior majoring in theater studies and classical studies, spoke with the Chronicle about his distinction project this spring.
Duke Arabic students cover Sudanese hip-hop and strike a chord
David Gatten, Lecturing Fellow and Artist in Residence in Duke’s Arts of the Moving Image program, is one of the foremost filmmakers of his generation. Since 1996, his work has ...
One reason contemporary art is exciting is that we can sometimes meet an artist and learn the stories behind the work.
A conceptual artist on Duke's faculty talks about his own work and how the arts can make Duke a productive, outward-facing university.
The celebration of 50 Years of Black Students at Duke University culminated on October 4, 2013 with the premier of Billy Childs’ composition “Enlightened Souls,” a piece commissioned by Duke ...
Five Duke dance students spent this past summer in China, introducing into the country a new concept: summer dance camp. Their trip is the latest episode in a remarkable history ...
Luou Zhang, a 2011 Duke graduate in economics, describes how his DukeEngage experience at a middle school in China inspired him to become an experiential-education entrepreneur there.
Hsiao-mei Ku is Professor of the Practice in Duke University’s music department and a violinist in the Ciompi Quartet, Duke’s resident string quartet. She is faculty-in-residence in Pegram residence hall, ...
When James Brown gave his famous advice, “Get up offa that thing and dance ’til you feel better,” he probably never envisioned someone conducting a clinical trial to see if ...
Adam Chodikoff ’93, senior producer for “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” and America’s leading “investigative humorist,” will give the keynote address to kick off DEMAN Weekend, the annual celebration ...
Visiting artist Charlotte Caspers to hold workshops on art reconstruction and painting techniques from the Middle Ages.
How going to college helped Tift Merritt become a better artist.
The classical music label Deutsche Grammophon – Decca found a very 21st-century way to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Chopin’s birth—they had a video contest. Pianists were invited to send ...
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