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2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019

Professors’ Bookshelf: Authors Curran, Finn, Glick, and Scheibe

Andrew S. Curran, William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019) In this biography of French philosopher Denis Diderot&nbs…

2019 Issue 1May 20, 2019May 23, 2019

The Itinerant Portraitist: Painting with a Number as a Theme

[caption id="attachment_13157" align="aligncenter" width="1920"] The project 100/100—or 100 paintings of people who are a century old, or nearly so—was on exhibit at the Laurie M. Tisch Gallery in New York City last year…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 21, 2019

The Big Hopper Reveal (video)

The 32 students in Professor Voth and Assistant Professor Moller's sections of IDEAS 170 spent half the fall semester cr…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018December 7, 2018

On Solid Common Ground

A cosmic creative alumni collaboration makes a beautiful musical together: Director Tyler Thomas, choreographer Nora Tho…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 20, 2019

IDEAS: Putting the Art in Smart Design

Biographer Walter Isaacson—who wrote about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs—has said, “Those who thriv…

2018 Issue 3December 6, 2018May 21, 2019

Thinkers, Doers, Makers: The Inspired Ways Three Wesleyan Faculty Members Stock Young Designers’ Toolkits

The Space Between Associate Professor of Theater Marcela Oteíza pushes her students to work across disciplines and towa…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Alumni Bookshelf

Helen Riess ’78 with Liz Neporent The Empathy Effect: 7 Neuroscience-Based Keys for Transforming the Way We Live, …

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Faculty Bookshelf

J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Professor and Chair of American Studies and Professor, Anthropology Paradoxes of Hawaiian Soverei…

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 14, 2018

Men in the Machine: Playwright Haymon ’16 Explores Kafka in Contemporary America

(Photo of Miranda Haymon ’16 by Jejomar Ysit ’19.) This September 5–17, at The Tank in New York City, Miranda Haymon …

2018 Issue 3December 4, 2018December 7, 2018

Franklin Sirmans ’91: Offering Organic Entryways into Art

Franklin Sirmans ’91 is an American art critic, editor, writer, and curator. He has been the director of the Pérez Art M…