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Does the Devil Wear Fast Fashion?: Environmental Costs and Cultural Pushback

Natalia Armas PerezMay 9, 2025May 9, 2025

New trends, endless options, and prices that verge on the impossibly low. For those with the means, fashion trends drop fast and fade faster. Buy it, wear it, toss it—fickle as ever, onto the next obsession. Influencing identity formation and…

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Sacred Ceilings, Consumerist Key Chains: The Vatican’s Religious Art and Tourist Culture 

Rory SchoenbergerApril 25, 2025April 20, 2025

Vatican City, the spiritual heart of the Roman Catholic Church, is revered as one of the holiest places on earth. Yet, upon entering its thousand-year-old walls, rampant tourism and consumerism seem to dilute the sense of spirituality the city is designed to evoke.

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Making a Name: The Art and Challenge of Biography

Jaeha JangOctober 29, 2024

C. W. Goodyear ’16 is fascinated by James Garfield. As an author, he grew enamored with the idea of penning a biography of the former president, but he faced a problem: many Garfield biographies had been written already. Kenneth Ackerman…

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The New Renaissance? What To Make of AI Art

Lucy DreierOctober 29, 2024

Trained on vast quantities of public data, AI-generated art infringes upon intellectual property by using artists’ work without their consent. In attempts to combat this issue, founder and director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Rutgers University, Ahmed…

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Graffiti, an Artistic and Political Tool: Interviews with Craig Costello and Lee Quinoñes

Rory SchoenbergerAugust 30, 2024

Craig Costello (CC):  Craig Costello was born in 1971 and grew up in Queens, New York, immersed in the graffiti, skate, and punk scenes. After moving to San Francisco for art school, he became interested in photography and conceptual art,…

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