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Category: Arts and Culture

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Column/Asia/Arts and Culture

League of Legends Esports and Chinese Nationalism

Posted on April 6, 2025 by William Zhang

On November 6th, 2021, students of Chinese universities rampaged through the streets in their pajamas on a snowy night as deafening screams of celebration echoe...

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Column/Europe/Arts and Culture

Dancing through Diplomacy: Ballet’s Role in United States-Soviet Union Relations

Posted on February 7, 2025 by Camille Roussel

On walls throughout Russian cities, Swan Lake graffiti has been appearing. These depict the famous line of four ballerinas in the “Dance of the Cygnets” in “Swa...

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Interviews/Campus/Arts and Culture

‘Massive shared territory:’ Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn on Chinese and Appalachian folk music

Posted on February 15, 2024 by Megan Wright

Abigail Washburn is a GRAMMY® Award-winning singer, songwriter and clawhammer banjo player. Chinese musical prodigy Wu Fei is master of the guzheng, the ancient...

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Interviews/Asia/Arts and Culture

‘Two things can be true at once:’ Leora Eisenberg on the importance of exploring Central Asian dance and music

Posted on February 2, 2024 by Megan Wright

Leora Eisenberg entered Harvard University’s Ph.D. program in fall 2021 and is studying Central Asian Soviet history. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa ...

Column/Asia/Arts and Culture

Singapore’s Emergence as the World’s Next Art Capital

Posted on April 1, 2023 by Clarissa Tan

Inside the iconic triple towers of the Marina Bay Sands hotel, collectors and creative fanatics alike mingle amidst brightly lit white cubes to admire painting,...

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Column/Europe/Arts and Culture

International Instability – Born from the Migration of Refugees or a Product of Political Aversion?

Posted on January 23, 2023 by Eva Kottou

Migration can be thought of as a condition of evolving economic, social, and political climates. While migrants are often incorrectly interchanged with “refugee...

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Column/Africa/Arts and Culture

Restitution of African Art: the Recent Wave to Decolonize Museums

Posted on December 18, 2021 by Alexander Hoang

How must one reconcile with the mistakes of the past and the systems created because of them? As you enter the main floor of the Musée du quai Branly in Paris, ...

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Asia/Arts and Culture

Positioning Photography in China: Liang See Tay and Elite Subjects

Posted on May 19, 2021 by Cameron Freeman

Background When examining the arrival of western photographers to China in the 19th century, men wielding cameras, armed with a revolutionary means of image-rep...

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Campus/Middle East/Arts and Culture

“Our Art is Global”: Sultan Al-Qassemi on Art and Protest in the Middle East

Posted on April 25, 2021 by galia newberger

On February 15th, the Yale Arab Students Association hosted Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi, Emirati columnist, researcher and the Founder of Barjeel Art Foundation, to...

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Column/Reviews/Americas/Arts and Culture

“Minari,” Language, and the Pain of Categorization

Posted on April 11, 2021 by Samantha Larkin

Apparently, through a year and a pandemic, the Golden Globes organization has yet to understand that the language of a film’s dialogue is not what defines the f...

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