If you walk down to the sculpture studio, you might hear it before you see it. Professor Anthony Frudakis, associate professor of art, likes to play music during his classes. “I find music relaxing and very inspiring,” he said. “In the morning, it’s kind of Apollonian, with the classics by Mozart and Beethoven. In the...
When teachers assign poetry memorization for students at Hillsdale Academy, they say the practice is essential for a student’s learning process and ability to converse about weighty things. As Academy Headmaster David Diener puts it, Augustine couldn’t have written “The Confessions” if he had to look up all of his Scripture references on Wikipedia....
Colleen Prince was 11 years old when she attended her first Ukrainian dance camp at a diaspora community in Lehighton, Pennsylvania. Today, she’s teaching and learning folk dance in Ukraine with her Fulbright scholarship. Prince, who graduated from Hillsdale in May 2019, moved to Ostroh in west Ukraine in September to teach English language at...
My view of Michelangelo’s statue of David was blocked by a tourist taking a picture with an iPad. While traveling through Europe this summer, I saw many beautiful things—La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, the Vatican in Rome, the Duomo in Florence, and the Acropolis in Greece. Millions of people visit these places each year...
If you asked the typical American to name the artist whose recent album includes a gospel choir, a Kenny G saxophone solo, and lyrics about Chick-fil-a, their first guess probably wouldn’t be Kanye West. But in a turn of rather bizarre, albeit sincere, events, the king of hip-hop is now bowing down to the King...