To commemorate Jay Parini’s retirement from his position as professor emeritus of English and Creative Writing, some of the Arts & Culture team sat down with him to chat about his career, life post-retirement and everything in between.
Powerful depictions of female friendship, American history and grief lit up the Seeler Studio Theatre this past weekend as the cast of “These Shining Lives” took to the stage. The faculty-led production ran from Oct. 30–Nov. 1, with a total of four performances.
Students and faculty gathered in the Mahaney Arts Center last month to discuss what some describe as the most pressing issue of our time — artificial intelligence (AI) — and how the rise of its industry exploits the arts.
Crossword 11/06/2025: Solutions!
Since our first day in freshman year, we familiarized ourselves with the campus layout — navigating to classes, planning out the fastest routes and utilizing bikes and skateboards to help us hurry between buildings. As we trace our familiar routes to class each week, we might notice some hidden artworks ...
It's the seasonal act: Leaves detach from trees with a last flaming breath, dry wind chills your throat and chest and the sun sets quickly towards the heavens, leaving us aching for more of its intangible warmth. There is an emptiness in fall, yet its warmth is immortalized in the digital world. We ...
The Johnson Exhibition Gallery hosted a screening of the documentary film “Beyond Bars: Reimagining Justice and Healing in VT” on Oct. 24 in collaboration with its exhibit “Finding Hope Within.”
Crossword 10/31/2025: Solutions.
Yale University Senior Conservator of Works on Paper Theresa Fairbanks-Harris delivered a lecture titled “Piranesi’s Prints: Paper, Process, and Preservation” at the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) on Oct. 16. The event, held in conjunction with the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Visions ...
Gallery hoppers, Spotify stalkers, bookworms, Letterboxd users and anyone who enjoys art, this is the place for you. Makes Ya Feel highlights art across all of its mediums, small and large-scale, that (you guessed it) makes ya feel!
Johnson Gallery’s new exhibition “Finding Hope Within” platforms art that was created within the Vermont carceral system. The exhibit debuted to the public on Oct. 1 and will run until Nov. 14.
Crossword 10/23/2025 Solutions: State of the Union.
Crossword 10/23/2025: State of the Union.
A collage of the Middlebury community explored the escapable fact of life: mortality. At this year’s Cocoon, which debuted on Oct. 3, this year’s theme, “Before I die…”, invited speakers and audience members to reflect on life’s impermanence and the beauty that comes from embracing it.
Hepburn Hall buzzed with students, faculty and locals who crowded the stairways leading up to the Hepburn Zoo on opening night of “The Truth Remixed,” the 30th annual First Year show. The multi-genre comedy show, directed by Visiting Professor Ashley Nicole Baptiste, ran from Oct. 2-4.
In retrospect, it makes peculiar sense that, of all contemporary American directors, Paul Thomas Anderson would prove best-equipped to make the decade’s first great “Movie About Our Times.” The cokey, affecting mania of his early films (“Magnolia,” “Boogie Nights”); the strange, libidinal ...
Crossword 10/09/2025: Solutions!
