Some 2,500 years ago, one industrious artist painted hundreds of ceramic Greek vases, adorning them with scenes of military and mythology. This year, the Princeton University Art Museum organized an exhibition of the anonymous Berlin Painter’s work, drawing more than 50 of the vases together from 15 private collections from the British Museum to the...
Looking for weekend plans that involve the arts? The Inlet Dance Theatre, a Cleveland-based company, performs at 8 p.m. on Saturday in Markel Auditorium. The company blends dance with theatrical design, focusing on education through performance. Its goal is to use dance to empower individuals and promote personal development. “It seems fitting to bring them...
When senior Chandler Ryd chose to attend Hillsdale, his passion for filmmaking heightened. Despite the few opportunities to practice film on campus, he said he has learned something even more valuable to film than the technical craft. “I’ve found that studying the seven classical liberal arts has made me a much better filmmaker because they’re...
Two achievements mark excellence in a commencement speaker: connection to audience and timeliness of message. Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan enjoys both. She should be Hillsdale’s 2018 commencement speaker. Noonan wrote speeches for a man revered — and immortalized in statue — on Hillsdale’s campus: Ronald Reagan. She wrote his Challenger explosion speech —...
Perhaps you should have emerged from bed, recycling the weeklong drudge of get up, get dressed, get ready. Go up the hill, show up for classes, study. But you stayed cradled in your sheets because it was the weekend — I know you’ve done this at least once because we all have — so I...