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Archive: April 2024 (2 Posts)

David Harrington Appointed Kluge Chair in Modern Culture

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

The John W. Kluge Center is pleased to announce the appointment of David Harrington as Kluge Chair in Modern Culture. Harrington is the founder and first violinist of the Kronos Quartet, which since 1973 has produced dozens of albums in a diverse range of styles and commissioned more than 1,000 pieces by composers from all …

Posted in: Culture & Society, Digital Revolution, Literature, Media & Communications, Visual & Performing Arts

Reading Vogue, Then and Now

Posted by: Andrew Breiner

This is a guest post by Samira Spatzek, a Kluge Fellow and a postdoctoral researcher and academic coordinator at the Cluster of Excellence “Temporal Communities: Doing Literature in a Global Perspective” at Free University of Berlin, Germany. When Princeton socialite and businessman Arthur B. Turnure ventured to publish a New York social gazette at the …

Posted in: Culture & Society, History, Literature, Media & Communications, United States