“En Route Pour La Pêche” by John Singer Sargent. Courtesy | National Gallery of Art The Dow Journalism Department and the Hillsdale Art Department hosted the inaugural Kenyon Cox Art Critics Essay Competition earlier this semester. This year, students were invited to imagine that The Metropolitan Museum and the Musée d’Orsay would lend Hillsdale College...
As plastic beads and toilet paper filled the streets of New Orleans this Fat Tuesday, palaces in Vienna, Austria, hosted their final Viennese waltz of the season. Ball season in Vienna, which traditionally lasts Nov. 11 to Shrove Tuesday each year, attracts thousands of visitors to Viennese palaces that host hundreds of balls every season....
Applause greeted the soprano as she walked across the stage to the concert grand piano in Christ Chapel. Julie Adams, an award-winning opera singer, alongside her accompanist, Brad Blackham, professor of piano and keyboard studies at Hillsdale College, performed a Valentine’s Day concert the evening of Feb. 14. The program was titled “Bella Notte,” or...
What do Lewis Capaldi, Domhnall Gleeson, Greta Lee, Cillian Murphy, Graham Norton, and Jodie Smith all have in common? Not much — at least until this February when superstar Taylor Swift cast the stars, alongside a pet rock and cactus, in a long, chaotic music video for her song “Opalite,” released Feb. 6. In an...
When did you begin to develop an appreciation for the arts and literature? In high school I really started enjoying literature. I remember especially liking Henry David Thoreau’s “Walden.” That was a work that really drew me into literature. Was there a specific moment you realized you wanted to dedicate your time to studying it?...