LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Barely a hop, skip and a jump away from our campus, just off of Sunset Boulevard, you’ll find something that at first seems out of place nestled between the Big Red stadium and the strip…
Mural, mural on the wall
Author: Luke Ponce
Fine Arts Column: Minority report: A pointed musical question
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST The pointed question to which I refer is this: why not? Allow me to explain. First, some context. I find that a surprisingly small contingent of my compatriots are aware that the Latin Rite of…
Fine Arts Column: Reflections on light through stained glass
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Few things are as inescapable in our day-to-day experience as light, and there are few places on earth where it is entirely extinguished. Nevertheless, it often slips by our conscious thought entirely unnoticed. It surrounds…
Fine Arts Column: On spring break in Camelot
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST A thought from spring break: strolling around the streets of a small town at night, one encounters a sort of strange, sacred solitude. The remarkable thing about it is that this tranquility doesn’t exist within…
Fine Arts Column: The art of appreciating silence
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST The world is filled with a great many sources of instantaneous excitement and entertainment. One might think that facilitating the pursuit of such experiences would increase the happiness of society, but it has only deepened…
Fine Arts Column: Swiss land is your land
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Not long ago, an instance of note to this present column occurred as I sat inside Antonian Hall, that illustrious purveyor of bodily sustenance which towers benevolently over the heart of our campus. I was…
Fine Arts Column: Christian art and evangelization
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST For all its variance and vacillation of creed and custom, humanity nevertheless continues to hold the fine arts in high regard. At worst, they are esteemed as a harmless endeavor, perhaps unimportant but nice in…
Fine Arts Column: Merry Crisis: a study playlist for Advent (and finals)
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Some nights, I stare blankly at the screen of my laptop at a loss for what artistic ruminations I could possibly contribute to this illustrious publication that are worth the attention and time of the…
Fine Arts Column: The joy in our textbooks
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST College students and books: they go together like salsa and cilantro, which is to say our academic reading is something we either relish, despise or put up with because it is a necessary part of…
Fine Arts Column: Spooks in the choir loft
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Seeing as this edition appears in print on All Hallows’ Eve, I have leapt upon the opportunity to write about organ music. What can I say; it is what organists do. Early in my college…