Category Archives: Chronos: Arts & Culture

Productive year of 2013

I thought it would be fun to do a Chronos for the year of 2013. A lot of the times we live the year and don’t even realize that it had happened or realized how fast time went by. As … Continue reading

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1991: Year in Review

Arts and Culture Contemporary artist Damien Hirst opens his first solo exhibition at he Institute of Contemporary Arts. The gallery space consisted of two works of art: Butterfly Paintings and Ashtrays and White Paintings and Live Butterflies. In the upstairs … Continue reading

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The Great Decade of the 90’s.

In my opinion, this is possibly one of the greatest and most productive decades. Arts and Culture, for example, has boomed so much during this decade. Arts and Culture: This is the decade of the greatest movie productions, in my opinion. … Continue reading

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The Nineties…and The Little Mullen

As a child “raised” in the nineties, I was able to witness, first-hand, the changes that reverberated into the Twenty-first Century.  Here are some of the decade’s highlights and possible connections to Harryette Mullen’s Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & … Continue reading

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’39 Big Things Lead to Big Bombs A Way

1939… marks the year World War II began.  Leading up to the start of the war, many interesting events surrounding it included the ways in which modern society responded and interacted with the Second World War. Arts & Culture Professor … Continue reading

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Year in Review: 1936

Arts and Culture In June Margaret Mitchell publishes the iconic work Gone With the Wind. The coming-of-age story features Scarlett O’Hara, a wealthy plantation owner’s daughter, who suddenly finds herself in poverty after Sherman’s march. Soon after initial publication it became the … Continue reading

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The Roaring Twenties

Arts & Culture: In February of 1924, George Gershwin’s acclaimed musical composition Rhapsody in Blue premiered in the concert “An Experiment in Modern Music” at Aeolian Hall in New York. Written for a jazz band and solo piano, Gershwin’s piece combined … Continue reading

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Early 1900s America

Art and Culture The Jazz Singer, release in October of 1927, is the first feature-length film in American cinema that also includes sound. This film marked the decline of silent film and spawned the production of “talkies”(another name for feature-length … Continue reading

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Too Much Monkey Business

Arts and Culture: 1925 was a year for the American arts.  On February 21st, The New Yorker, a top-tier literary magazine still today, published its first issue.  Even more vital to American literature was the publication of The Great Gatsby, … Continue reading

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Tracking 1924

Arts and Culture On February 12, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at the Aeolian Hall in New York City. The composition combined elements of classical music with jazz and secured Gershwin’s a reputation as … Continue reading

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