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Alida Mitau '18

Managing Arts Editor

“Certain Women” Captures Female Experiences in Small Town Montana

“Certain Women” Captures Female Experiences in Small Town Montana

Directed by Kelly Reichardt and released this October, “Certain Women” pensively explores certain distinctively female experiences by presenting snippets of the lives of three women (played by Laura Dern, Michelle Williams and Kristen Stuart) living in the same, small town of Livingston, Montana. The film is set in the cloudy,

Chloe Tausk ’18 Uses Amherst Women’s Hair to Create Socially Engaged Art

Chloe Tausk ’18 Uses Amherst Women’s Hair to Create Socially Engaged Art

You may have seen intirguing flyers in your bathroom or a post from Chloe Tausk on Facebook requesting your hair. It is an unusual request but it is all in the name of art. Tausk ‘18 explained the purpose behind her project and her hopes for its effect. Q: How

Installation Offers Commentary on Amherst’s Gendered Spaces

Installation Offers Commentary on Amherst’s Gendered Spaces

Camila Dominguez ’18 exhibited her art project “Pin Up” in Alumni Gym on September 30. The project was for her advanced art seminar on public art and social practice. She placed pictures of current female Amherst students over pictures of male athletic teams, and her installation remained in the gym

Exploring Karl Knausgaard: Simple, Honest and Powerful Narration

This summer I had the pleasure of discovering the author Karl Ove Knausgaard, a 48-year-old Norwegian who made enormous waves in the literary world for his inimitable six-volume, 3,600-page autobiographical novel titled “My Struggle.” The novel documents Knausgaard’s entire life, from the smallest details of making coffee in

Thesis Spotlight: Annika Nygren ’16 Explores “Hook-up Culture”

Annika Nygren ’16 was inspired to write her senior thesis on romance and intimacy on college campuses after studying abroad in Madrid, Spain. She often refers to her thesis as an exploration of “hookup culture” and its complex effects. I had the fortunate opportunity to sit down with Nygren and

Rising Artist Smino to Perform in Hitchcock Dormitory Saturday Night

Rising Artist Smino to Perform in Hitchcock Dormitory Saturday Night

It’s unfortunately clear that a vibrant music scene doesn’t exist in the mainstream social fabric of Amherst College. In my experience, when concerts happen on campus, very few people know about them and attend them. And on Saturday nights, the social dorms tend to radiate the same ten

Artist Spotlight: Sarah Jordan Creates Explorative Documentary

Artist Spotlight: Sarah Jordan Creates Explorative Documentary

Q: How would you describe your project? A: As an art major, I’m able to make my senior thesis in any medium. I’ve chosen to make a film that will be a 25-minute documentary about face blindness. Prosopagnosia, or face blindness, is the inability to recognize faces. My