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-7 posts tagged "Murals"
Kathleen Meyer | Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Saint Mary’s will be adding a new mural to its walls as part of a year-long celebration of the College’s 175th anniversary. Sophomore Jackie Rojas, a member of the mural committee, said she went to two interfaith conferences in Chicago last summer. She visited the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, which is known for greeting card
Mike Donovan, Nora McGreevy, Carlos De Loera and Jake Winningham | Thursday, February 21, 2019
Volume IV: Spring 2019 by Scenecast, from The Observer Mike Donovan, Nora McGreevy, Carlos De Loera and Jake Winningham discuss the mural controversy, predict the future (of pop culture).
Hanna Kennedy | Monday, February 18, 2019
You may have seen the posters on campus — they’re hard to miss. In the black and white photographs reproduced on the posters, images of Native American men have been annotated, edited and — quite literally — revised in red ink. These images depict a series of works by the artist Wendy Red Star (Apsáalooke/Crow),
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, January 31, 2019
A response to the Young Americans for Freedom, in support of the University’s decision to cover murals of Christopher Columbus: YAF’s anger toward what they call “a small, vocal group of the ND community” seems misplaced given the fact that they, too, are a small, vocal group in this community making demands of Fr. Jenkins.
BridgeND | Wednesday, January 30, 2019
There’s been a lot of national attention surrounding Notre Dame’s recent decision to cover our Main Building’s Christopher Columbus murals. Father Jenkins had a primetime interview on Martha MacCallum’s Fox News program, influential newspapers are publishing op-eds and Twitter users of all ideologies are crawling out of the woodwork to share their opinions. Many conservative
Letter to the Editor | Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Dear Fr. Jenkins, It is time for the murals to go. The 12 Luigi Gregori murals have adorned the main hall of Main Building for over 130 years, greeting millions of campus residents and visitors with a highly problematic vision of Western triumphalism, Catholic militarism and an overly romantic notion of American expansion. Christopher Columbus,
Matt McMahon | Wednesday, January 28, 2015
On Lupe Fiasco’s early album centerpiece “Murals,” the Chicago rapper talks a lot, but doesn’t say much. Across its repetitive, hookless, one-verse, eight-and-a-half minutes of a recycling piano line, Fiasco at one point plays a game of word association that comes across like an amateur improvising a freestyle, scrambling to string together just enough syllables