The Art Institute of Chicago has received a cash gift of approximately $70 million combined from the Duchossois and Levy families. Member of the museum’s board of trustees, Janet Duchossois, and her husband donated $50 million. The chair of the museum, Robert Levy, and his wife donated an additional $20 million, making for a…
For the last few weeks of the semester, the De Pree Art Center is featuring a collection of senior pieces in the exhibit “Out of Touch”. Art majors Saem Cho, Carolyn Ellis, Julia Hines, Hannah Jacobs and Brianne Munch have all contributed to the exhibition, centering their pieces around the same theme. To quote…
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but what about a thousand servings? Until April 22, the New York Drawing Center is hosting the works of Argentinian artist Eduardo Navarro, who believes that the everyday person should have more involvement in the world of art. In his exhibit “Into Ourselves”, visitors will…
They say that ‘art is what you make of it’, and in the last week, a student here at Hope has interpreted that to mean making holes in the wall. Supplin Naillette is an art major here at Hope and has recently opened her personal exhibit to the public. Visitors can expect to see…
The Czech National Museum will be sorting out fake gems over the next two years. After thousands of years of trickery, frauds, fakes and supposed acts of magic getting the better of people’s discernment, humanity is well aware that sometimes something only has to look real for people to think it’s real. In this…
As the first Marvel movie to come out this year, “Black Panther” has already made over twice its budget in box office success on opening night. The film starts out with an artistic introduction on the historical and regional tensions going on in the hidden, highly advanced fictional nation of Wakanda. After these creative…
Rain has been as much a part of art as a part of our world. With snowy weather on its way out of Holland, a not-so-new form of precipitation is taking its place: rain. In many places, rain and cloudy weather are inherent to the spring season, and it is not only life itself…
Ancient stone carvings of camels and donkeys have been found in the Al Jawf province of Saudi Arabia. A nation with a regional history many thousands of years old, archeologists are still uncovering multiple hidden gems of ancient artwork and architecture in the Middle Eastern nation, from ancient gates scattered across the deserts to…
Artist Kelly Ocock (‘19) captures the memories held within objects in her photos. Ocock, more commonly known by her artist name Kelly Jean, opened her own student exhibit to public viewing on Feb. 1. Ocock is also The Anchor’s very own Photo Editor. She has shown an aptitude in photo-medium ever since a photography…
Moments in history thought of as the darkest of times can alter the history of a nation or even the whole world forever, making them both incredibly important and memorable. Sometimes, nations who recognize the hardships that a fellow nation is going through after a tragic event will show acts of compassion, showing that…