Arts

Next time you watch the presidential candidates speak, pay close attention to their unspoken language–signals such as facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures. What the candidates don’t say could actually speak volumes about them, according to psychology professor Carrie Keating, an expert in facial characteristics and gestures.

“To have Susan Marshall on campus is a really big deal.” That is how Emily Rawdon ’10 described the recent visit to Colgate University by Susan Marshall & Company, a renowned dance company based in New York City.

Instead of rushing home when the last school bell of the day rings, budding Hamilton area artists are heading to the Picker Art Gallery at Colgate University. On Monday afternoons, the Picker is transformed into a classroom as inquisitive 6-to 10- year olds let their imaginations run wild while attending the gallery’s after-school art club.

Her work has been called “whimsical,” “powerful,” “sexy,” and “surreal.” Susan Marshall & Company, one of the most innovative dance companies in the world, is coming to campus this week as part of ArtsMix and Colgate’s Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts.

Transformation, an exhibition of mixed media sculptures by Carol Cole, is on display through Feb. 17 in the Longyear Museum of Anthropology on the second floor of Alumni Hall. Made of polystyrene, handmade paper, paint, and found objects, the work is inspired by the artifacts of ancient and tribal artists and architects.

A year and a half ago, Colgate University music professor Laura Klugherz received a letter from a film company interested in using a piece of her music for an upcoming documentary about World War II. Klugherz didn’t think much about the request. In fact, she tucked the letter away in her files.

As observers and passers-by witness Willoughby Sharp’s Ice and Air outdoor installations on campus, they will experience the artworks differently as the pieces change with the passing of time.

“It’s one thing to read [a book] and then it’s another thing to get a personal account of what it’s like writing it and what the actual experiences were like,” said Annie Norcia ’08, a creative writing student who attended both a luncheon and a reading given by author Gregory Bottoms on Thursday. The English […]

The Hamilton Movie Theater has gone digital, which for lovers of indie films and documentaries, is very good news.