If “all the worlds a stage,” then the operating theater is no different. Surgeons of the Renaissance and nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, despite the modern day medical profession’s emphasis on privacy, stoicism, and quiet dignity, were historically required, not only to heal, but to entertain.
Category: The Artist Studio
Plaguing Shakespeare
During Shakespeare’s peak writing and acting activities during the late 1500s and early 1600s, London and its environs were visited upon by plague. The plague of 1593, and the nearly continuous outbreaks from 1603–1610 had definitive effects on Shakespeare’s work (Slack 145–46; Barroll 17–18).
What’s in my white coat?
“They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons,
the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.”
Inside the Margins
An interview with Marianne R. Petit
Marianne R. PetitAssociate Arts Professor, Global Network Associate Arts ProfessorAssociate Vice Chancellor for Global Network Academic Planning Marianne R. Petit is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program and …
The Haunting of Hill House: An Exploration in the Fear of Illness
What is it about horror movies that makes them such pop culture icons? From Halloween, to teen slumber parties, to cinematic fright nights, the horror marathon has stood the test of time and become nothing short of an American tradition.
Santiago Ramón y Cajal
On February 10th, the Student Interest Group in Neurology and Neurosurgery (SIGNN), in collaboration with Laura Ferguson and students in her Art and Anatomy class, organized an outing to experience …
My life as an intern
Michael Natter | 2017 Rudin Fellow Michael Natter was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he was surrounded by many cultural influences growing up. He …
My life as an intern
Michael Natter was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan where he was surrounded by many cultural influences growing up. He was innately drawn toward the visual arts and has been creating art since he could hold a crayon.
Theatrical Reading Gives Viewers New Perspective on ‘End of Life’
On Thursday, October 26, Theater of War Productions brought an innovative and emotionally charged project to NYU Langone Health. In a performance entitled “End of Life,” actors drew the audience into a world of suffering patients and conflicted caregivers through readings of ancient Greek tragedies– Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Women of Trachis.