With March wrapping up and April starting, spring is steadily ahead of us. The warming weather presents the perfect opportunity for a break between grueling midterms or other obligations. What’s better than reading in the sun or walking to a show when it's 70 degrees outside? We hope you can enjoy these recommendations from the Arts Section as the new season starts!
The Drama, directed and written by Kristoffer Borgli, will release this Friday starring Zendaya and Robert Pattinson. With its well-beloved leads, the film has been generating a lot of buzz, especially since its trailers hint that a darker turn will be occurring within the relationship of its seemingly happily engaged characters. The Drama will certainly be an intriguing watch depicting the extreme, and possibly dangerous, lengths one might go through to save a relationship.
If you want to follow a sort-of-relationship already doomed, Kirsten King’s debut novel, A Good Person, might be for you. A Good Person briefly starts with the whirlwind in-between state of a relationship undefined by any exclusive label before it ceases entirely. However, when one person suddenly dies, the other is framed as the suspect responsible for this suspicious death. A Good Person explores the nature of human impulses at its most explosive states.
Can We Hang Out Sometime? is the newest album from Toronto-based indie rock band Good Kid releasing this Friday. Good Kid is known for its upbeat and lively instrumentals with lyrics about life’s contradictions, such as how one can love and hate another simultaneously; its newest release seems to follow this trend from its singles that have been out. Can We Hang Out Sometime? promises to deliver more playful reflections about life.
If you love food and books, you’ll love the Sheridan Libraries’ Annual Edible Book Festival! This event celebrates reading and baking through a wide selection of incredible baked goods inspired by books. These treats are created by Hopkins students, faculty and staff who submit their entries. Visitors will vote for their favorite dessert in a variety of categories, so be sure to submit your choice when attending this delightful event.
If none of these picks seem like the right fit, our extended list is below:
To watch...
- The Drama, directed by Kristoffer Borgli — April 3
- Palestine ‘36, directed by Annemarie Jacir — April 3
- A Great Awakening, directed by Joshua Enck — April 3
- Fantasy Life, directed by Matthew Shear — April 3
- The Third Parent, directed by David Michaels — April 3
To read...
- A Good Person, by Kirsten King — March 31
- Upward Bound, by Woody Brown — March 31
- Relational Aesthetics, by Nicolas Bourriaud, translated by Denyse Beaulieu — March 31
- The Elusive Body: Patients, Doctors, and the Diagnosis Crisis, by Alexandra Sifferlin — March 31
- True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink, by Kory Stamper — March 31
To listen...
- Can We Hang Out Sometime?, by Good Kid — April 3
- Ambiguous Desire, by Arlo Parks — April 3
- Indigo Park, by Bruce Hornsby — April 3
- SACRED II, by Jessica Baio — April 3
- Virgin Lake, by Philine Sonny — April 3
Live events...
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Read It & Eat It: The Sheridan Libraries’ Edible Book Festival — March 30, 12:30–2:30 p.m. at the Glass Pavilion
- This event is free.
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Humanities in the Village, ft. Jeanne-Marie Jackson and Emmanuel Awine: The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa — March 30, 6:30 p.m. at Bird and Hand
- This event is free with registration.
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In the Stacks: African American Art Song — March 31, 6:30–7:30 p.m. at George Peabody Library
- This event is free.
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Visiting Artist Talk: Diane Burko — April 1, 5–6 p.m. at the Hopkins and Maryland Institute College of Art Film Centre, 2nd Floor
- This event is free.
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Maria Adelmann presents The Adjunct — April 2, 7–8:30 p.m. at Greedy Reads Remington
- This event is free with registration.
