On Monday, Kresge Auditorium was illuminated by images of golden religious icons and glowing visages of early African Christians. The occasion was a lecture given by Andrea Achi, the Jaharis Associate Curator of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of …
Now on display at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA): new exhibition “Empires of Liberty: Athena, America, and the Feminine Allegory of the State,” curated by Julia Katherine Fiori ’24. Drawing upon scholarship within the fields of archaeology and …
At the end of each semester, students in visual and performing arts classes, ensembles and groups present their work to the campus community. Here’s the Orient’s guide to every event.
May 2, 7:30 p.m., Studzinski Recital Hall – Jazz Combos …
Last Saturday night, Smith Union transformed into a runway and stage, replete with rigged lighting and sound, as the Asian Student Alliance (ASA) hosted the Pan-Asian Fashion Show. The show incorporated a mix of student models sporting culturally derived and …
“You will be bored of him in two years, and we will be interesting forever.” Jo March pleads with her sister Meg to stay in “Little Women,” Greta Gerwig’s 2019 take on the classic novel, which remains near the forefront …
Almost all that the Etruscans left behind was left in their graves: Little else of their civilization remains. Scholars know they were fantastic plumbers—they built the first major sewer in what is now Rome, known as the Cloaca Maxima, and …
Last Friday, music was played, dance was performed and art was displayed—all underneath the domed ceiling of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art (BCMA) Rotunda. Student band Night Hawk performed six original songs inspired by Edward Hopper’s paintings in matinee …
Last Saturday, Dylan Richmond ’24 transformed Pickard Theater into a portal, inviting a packed crowd to join him in exploring an emergence out of oppression and toward joy. His performance, entitled “I am Bearing Myself in the Mouth of the …
“This is the cow.” – Gabriel García Márquez, “One Hundred Years of Solitude”
When a plague of insomnia sweeps the fictional town of Macondo in “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” its residents find themselves tossing and turning together.…
Footage from over 100 years ago and over 1,000 miles north captivated visitors at the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum’s “Reframing Historic Arctic Films” festival last weekend. From Thursday to Sunday, films featuring floating icebergs, dogs racing in the snow and frost-covered …