Category Society & Culture

Intersection of art and business examined in ‘Art as Business as Art’ course

September 8, 2009

On his recent whistle-stop "Arts in Crisis" tour, the Kennedy Center's Michael Kaiser bemoaned how much more money goes into training artists to be good artists than to be good managers of their own careers.

Chazen features mezzotints, silver pieces in exhibits

August 31, 2009

Don’t let the big dig on University Avenue where the Peterson Building used to be keep you from visiting the Chazen Museum of Art. The museum is open for visitors, and two current exhibits there are worth a look: “Mezzotints, Prints of Darkness” and “Delight in Design: Indian Silver for the Raj.”

Slide show: Tiny Art

August 5, 2009

UW-Madison students perform at International Youth Poetry Slam Festival

July 15, 2009

Thirteen UW–Madison students from the First Wave Hip Hop Theater Ensemble will perform in the 12th Annual Brave New Voices (BNV) International Youth Poetry Slam today (July 15) in Chicago.

Educators to learn about using hip hop, spoken word as classroom tools

July 1, 2009

More than 40 educators from nine states will attend the fourth annual Hip Hop and Spoken Word Teacher/Educator Institute on campus July 6-10.

Sounds of early music to fill Madison air

June 29, 2009

Study with virtuosos and early music vocal masters, and perform period music at the Madison Early Music Festival July 11-18.

Summer campus film schedules announced

June 17, 2009

The University of Wisconsin–Madison Cinematheque and the Wisconsin Union Directorate (WUD) Film Committee have assembled summer programming that will entertain and enlighten.

Incoming freshman reflects on singing for Obama

June 12, 2009

UW-Madison incoming freshman Kayla Jenerson kicked off President Barack Obama’s visit to Green Bay June 11 by singing the national anthem.

Community engagement moves World Dance Alliance Assembly

May 26, 2009

Madison, Wis., will become the world's dance hot spot May 28-31 when the University of Wisconsin–Madison Dance Program hosts the World Dance Alliance-Americas (WDAA) General Assembly.

UW-Madison alumnus nominated to chair National Endowment for the Arts

May 14, 2009

Rocco Landesman, a well-known Broadway producer and University of Wisconsin–Madison alumnus, has been nominated to be the next chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).

Notable graduates: Tom Curry — Double major toots his own horn with the tuba in the Wisconsin Brass Quintet

May 14, 2009

Though he can't tell you exactly why he began playing the tuba, other than it was a challenge, Tom Curry can assure you of his passion for music and incorporating it into today's culture.

Canceled: Film documents African American experience on campus

May 12, 2009

A student-produced documentary film, "Like Touching A Hot Stove," which provides a window into student life for African Americans at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is set to premiere on Tuesday, May 12.

Music professor to be honored at gala

May 12, 2009

A University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Music professor will be honored with one of four awards presented at the 2009 Wisconsin History Makers Gala on Wednesday, May 27, at Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel.

Thoreau Elementary students to demonstrate importance of literacy through song

May 8, 2009

More than 200 Madison Metropolitan School District students will come together on Monday, May 11, to share what they have learned from a literacy program that stresses self-esteem through music.

Art Lofts opening celebration continues

May 7, 2009

The tower of bright red steel girders signals that the former university warehouse at the edge of campus has been transformed. Facing the Kohl Center across Frances Street, the tower marks the main entrance to the Art Lofts, the new state-of-the-art facility for the Art Department.

Film and theater center digitizes three new collections

May 6, 2009

Three new collections in the holding of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research have been sifted, winnowed, digitized and posted to the Web.

Lecture explains the science behind ‘Angels and Demons’

April 29, 2009

Physics professor Wesley Smith will discuss the science behind the movie in a public lecture titled “Angels and Demons of the Large Hadron Collider” at 7:30 p.m. on Monday, May 4, in 2103 Chamberlin Hall.

Weeklong celebration marks opening of UW–Madison’s Art Lofts facility

April 28, 2009

Chazen groundbreaking ceremony planned for May 1

April 27, 2009

The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will celebrate the beginning of construction on its expansion with a groundbreaking ceremony at noon on Friday, May 1, on the building site at 750 University Ave.

Poet, alumnus returns to campus for landmark reading

April 23, 2009

Prize-winning poet Martín Espada has sometimes been referred to as “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors.” Like the great Chilean poet, whose work he now teaches, Espada’s life and work have had many facets. Neruda speaks most to Espada as a poet of justice, an advocate for those who remain unheard.