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Dan T’s Inferno Hot Sauces

January 24, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“Dishes from Downunder… and we don’t mean Australia”    —Dan Ts

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“It began as a flicker in the eye of culinary adventurer and graphic designer Dan Taylor when he decided to get serious about a sauce recipe he’d concocted while he was in university. The sauce for chicken wings quickly became a great hit with friends and family. With the dawning knowledge that the recipe was more than just a wing sauce, Dan T’s Inferno Spiced Cayenne Sauce was born.
The name is a saucy play on Dante’s Inferno, the first book of the 13th century poem The Divine Comedy, which describes the poet Dante’s allegoric descent into hell.”    —Dant Ts

Contributed by Sally Ahlquist (Luther College, ’11) and Luisa Burnham (Middlebury College)

Categories: Dining & Leisure
Tagged with: 2012, Condiments, Hot Sauce, Humor, Inferno, Paradiso

Sign Above Studio Entrance to “The Daily Show with John Stewart”

January 12, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Contributed by Kavi Montanaro

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2012, Abandon All Hope, Doorways, Humor, Television

Occupy New Haven

January 12, 2012 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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Contributed by Aisha Woodward (Bowdoin, ’08)

Categories: Odds & Ends, Places
Tagged with: 2012, Abandon All Hope, Connecticut, Humor, New Haven, Protests

Artist Maruizio Cattelan’s Final Project

December 14, 2011 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“The time has come: sooner or later it arrives for everyone. It’s not a painful moment and not even traumatic, it’s the natural evolution of a path of spectacular appearances and equally as many escapes, attempts to hiding away and revelations: Maurizio Cattelan is bowing out with one last exhibition. The retrospective All (from November 4th to January 22nd) at the Guggenheim Museum of New York (that Nancy Spector, head curator of the museum, has called “one last hanging”) is his most radical and visionary project. The reverse cone of Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture thus transforms into a seventeenth-century transposition of a sort of Dante’s Inferno, crowded by thousands of sinners: the exhibition combines all of Cattelan’s works, suspended from the museum’s skylight in a new, total and extreme project that transforms visitors into lost souls and the tour of the exhibition into a descent into the underworld. It’s also true that the great conflicts between right and wrong, Paradise and Hell have been in the heart of Maurizio’s career.”    –Paola Manfrin, L’Uomo Vogue, November 2011

See also: L’Uomo Vogue’s interview with Maurizo Cattelan.

Learn more about Cattelan’s exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum.

Contributed by Patrick Molloy

Categories: Image Mosaic, Visual Art & Architecture
Tagged with: 2012, Installation Art, Italy, New York City

Dino Di Durante, “Dante’s Inferno Animated” (2012)

March 5, 2010 By Professor Arielle Saiber

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“Dante’s Inferno Animated is a film created with children in mind to give them the opportunity to learn Dante’s teachings about life while they grow up. The images are as compelling as the story itself.
The film tells Dante Alighieri’s journey through the first part of the afterlife, Inferno. It is organized circle by circle and recited in primitive Italian in Dante’s own words. Dante is guided by his hero Virgil through each circle of Hell and their subdivisions until they reach the center of the Earth and emerged to the other hemisphere into Purgatory.
It features over 50 original color illustrations from the upcoming Dante’s Inferno comic book and magazine series, put together in a series of animation clips that will delight a young as well as an older audience. All the images used in this animation film were originally created byDino Di Durante with the collaboration of Awik Balaian and Riccardo Patesi, under the artistic direction of Boris Acosta. It is worth clarifying that this film is not a cartoon, but an ‘animation’ that is recited, instead of spoken by the animated characters. In other words, there are no speaking characters, but only their motion with the recitation that accompanies the action seen in the film.”    —Dante’s Inferno Animated

Contributed by Sam Woodworth

Categories: Performing Arts
Tagged with: 2012, Animation, Films, Inferno

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