Chuck Close's artistic method transposes a photograph into a painting by filling in a blank graph paper canvas with black, white and gray marks, a technique he has employed since the mid-1960s.
In the student center, Princetonians assiduously smooth tin foil over the lids of their sodas. In Chancellor Green, others slip Snapples up their sleeves.
What can often be categorized as the staid world of landscape photography has literally been elevated to new heights.
Spring Break nowadays seems like every student's escape to some libido fantasyland with roaming college kids looking to ride their next ride, hoping to win their next stuffed doll.Just watch MTV and you can get the picture live and hardcore.
Walking around Princeton this spring semester, one cannot fail to notice the abundance of posters announcing new film series, each boasting a rather more eclectic repertoire of films than one might expect.
I recently had a prolonged debate in my modern art precept about Andy Warhol's preoccupation with repetition and size.
"FHHHRRRR INSPCTHHHRR!"This alarming call may ring a bell in the minds of most Princeton students or incite a bout of nausea, whatever images it sparks.
Sondheim strikes the Princeton University Players again with his hit musical comedy Company, this time in conjunction with Theatre-Intime.
If any author captures the pop-culture infused excess of the '90s, it's David Foster Wallace. Just look at the size of his novel Infinite Jest (Back Bay Books, $14.95) that racks in at a whopping 1,079 pages.
Only in the fashion industry can you find such a reversal of conventions as the ones seen this year.
"Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants.
Formerly written off as a colorful anomaly within the music industry, Ani DiFranco's tongue-in-cheek rendition of the old standard "Wishin' and Hopin' " from last summer's My Best Friend's Wedding exemplifies her slow but sure rise in mass appeal.
Abercrombie and Fitch's new spring catalog makes you wonder if the clothier company famous for dressing college kids to look their prettiest isn't just a public relations firm hired by some national college frat consortium.The theme of this season's catalog, "On Spring Break, Looking for Love" is a dead giveaway.
Two years ago The Spirit of Christmas, an internet video clip featuring a kung-fu showdown between Jesus Christ and Santa Claus, infiltrated the typically sugarcoated holiday.
Did you see The House of Yes? Probably not. But chances are you've at least heard of In the Company of Men, Chasing Amy, Shine, Clerks and Reservoir Dogs.
John Webster's Jacobean drama, The Duchess of Malfi is rarely produced on stage, and for good reason.
Okay, let's do a quick check of the current Princeton University outdoor status. Arctic tundra? No.
Jeremy, of Ten, Pearl Jam's debut album, is really dead.The teenage antihero who blew his brains out "in class today" and all of his representative adolescent angst is strangely absent from the band's latest effort.
At Naples, Yale's popular pizza joint, the owner asked me and three male friends what we were doing by ourselves in an empty restaurant late on a Friday night.
Leaving the local cineplex after watching My Best Friend's Wedding (now on video) last summer, a few us of squabbled over the ending of the film.
