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…
While Hope College was designing the Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts with its advanced recording studio, Drew Elliot was searching for a job at a Michigan studio. It only made sense that the two events would eventually collide. Since then, Elliot’s influence on the Hope community has been invaluable. Elliot was a…
With her performance on SNL this week, Cardi B revealed her stomach for the first time in months in a tight gown. Everyone in the audience, backstage and around the world congratulated her on her pregnancy. That is, until she tweeted again just a few nights ago. Many people responded in confusion, until she…
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…
This year’s biggest fashion names are saying they were heavily influenced by the looks they saw at Hope College when they visited. “I absolutely love the vibes I get from Hope; everyone dresses so effortlessly,” said Kendall Jenner, one of the industry’s hottest names. Just a week ago, Jenner sported an ensemble very popular…
“One of the most important things that tour does is really to get the name of Hope College out there,” Gabe Southard, director of Hope College’s wind ensemble, said. The band began the tour yesterday and will continue traveling until Wednesday, when they return home. Wind ensemble is composed of 39 students who auditioned…
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…
For the past two weekends, dancers have been using the stage of Knickerbocker Theatre as a canvas. While they didn’t actually create using paint, they brought artwork to life through movement. On March 2-3 and 8-10, Dance 44 students performed their show called “A Gallery of Artists.” The show was appropriately titled, since the…