The Pomona College Museum of Art’s exhibit “Resonant Minds: Abstraction and Perception,” which opened Sept. 3, is the second in a series of exhibitions developed by student curators. This past summer, neuroscience major Nidhi Gandhi PO ’15 worked as the Curatorial Intern to the museum, where she drew from permanent
Author: Anissa Joonas
Meghan O’Rourke Talks Writing, Internet, Grief
It was late afternoon when Meghan O’Rourke read from her memoir The Long Goodbye and spoke about writing in the Internet era in the Margaret Fowler Garden at Scripps College. O’Rourke is the Mary Routt Endowed Chair of Writing 2013 and teaches “Writing 197M: Hybrid Forms” at Scripps. Associate English
Student-Curated Exhibition has Viewers Seeing Red
“Where I got the color red—to be sure, I just don’t know,” Henri Matisse once said. “I find that all these things … only become what they are to me when I see them together with the color red.” The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery’s current exhibition, “In Seeking Red: Selections
Scripps Graduate Works in LA as Stylist
Alexandra “Ali” Mandelkorn SC ’11 works in the costume design and fashion industry in Los Angeles. In our interview, she told us about blogging, branding, maintaining a professional relationship, and breaking into the fashion industry. When she isn’t on set or styling a fashion editorial on a rooftop in Hollywood,
The Allure of the Minimalist Aesthetic
Balmain makes holes in a shirt and sells the punctured piece of fabric for $1,625. Jil Sander’s $290 brown paper bag is made of brown paper, and a pair of jeans with paint splatters, frayed spots, and dark denim patches sells for $595. The fashion industry tells us the disheveled