Category Society & Culture
Machado and Silvetti Associates to design Chazen Museum expansion
The team of Machado and Silvetti Associates of Boston, in association with Milwaukee-based Continuum Architects + Planners, has been chosen by the state of Wisconsin to design the expansion to the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Paper dresses from swinging ‘60s show off planned obsolescence
The new exhibition "Disposable Dresses: Throw-Away Design from the 1960s" opens on Wednesday, Jan. 24, in the Gallery of Design at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More
Arts Institute brings artists in residence to campus
The University of Wisconsin–Madison Arts Institute announces two interdisciplinary artist residencies for this spring. Read More
‘Wisconsin Indian Literature’ highlights oral traditions of state’s 12 Indian nations
"Wisconsin Indian Literature," to be published in January 2007 by the University of Wisconsin Press, is a unique anthology that respectfully presents the oral traditions, literature, and historically significant documents of the current twelve independent bands and Indian Nations of Wisconsin. Read More
Project looking for the next great Wisconsin playwright
Submissions of original, full-length plays are being accepted for the Wisconsin Wrights New Play Project, a joint initiative of the University of Wisconsin Division of Continuing Studies, the University Theater and the Madison Repertory Theater created to foster the development of new works by Wisconsin playwrights. Read More
Choral Union brings university, community together in music
In a particularly congenial intersection of town and gown, the 170-voice Choral Union will present two substantial works by Franz Joseph Haydn and Zoltan Koda’ly on Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 9 and 10. Read More
Dance academy sends students to perform at Waisman Center
Students from the world-renowned Trinity Academy of Irish Dance will perform traditional Irish step dancing, replete with authentic costumes and music at the Waisman Center Children’s Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 10. Read More
Holocaust made ‘Manifest’ in Jewish Theater Project production
“Manifest” playwright Brian Silberman takes great issue with films such as “Schindler’s List,” “Amistad” and “Dances With Wolves.” Read More
String orchestras showcase music from film, stage
The All-University String Orchestras will perform music written or adapted for film and stage at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 9, in Mills Hall. Read More
Major art fair taps into talents of art students
Tandem Press, the fine-art printmaking studio affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison's art department, will be among hundreds of galleries represented, as thousands of collectors and artists gather December 7-10 for fairs and events surrounding Art Basel Miami Beach, the leading international art event in the Americas. Read More
Historian, influential campus leader E. David Cronon dies at age 82
E. David Cronon, an influential and revered former dean of the College of Letters and Sciences and history professor for more than four decades at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, died early this morning (Dec. 5) after a brief illness. He was 82. Read More
Kim Cridler: Divining art from metal
To Kim Cridler, an assistant professor of art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, the emotional power of objects drives her work as an artist. Through her work in metalsmith arts, Cridler seeks to recreate the feelings that are engendered by those meaningful artifacts or our past. Read More
Fall Faculty Concert celebrates Nikolais
As part of its 80th anniversary, the Dance Program is celebrating the work of 20th century artistic genius Alwin Nikolais which will be showcased in the upcoming Fall Faculty Concert at 8 p.m. Nov. 16–18, in the Margaret H’Doubler Performance Space. Read More
Waisman Children’s Theatre presents Twain classic
Following his daughter Suzy’s admonitions to write a book that would reveal “his sympathetic nature,”she wrote, Mark Twain published “The Prince and the Pauper”in 1881. Set in 16th-century London, the author carefully researched the time and place, reportedly using Shakespeare and Sir Walter Scott as references. Read More
Nikolais dance legacy helps Dance Program celebrate 80 years
The late choreographer Alwin Nikolais devised a simple formula that revolutionized 20th-century dance: obstacles in dancers’ paths. Read More
Grisman brings ‘Dawg’ to Wisconsin Union Theater
No, he’s not that bounty hunter guy on cable’s A&E channel. Rather, David Grisman — “Old Dawg”— plays music of the same name, which he describes as a fortuitous melding of swing, bluegrass, Celtic, Latin, jazz and gypsy, to list but a few. You can get a sample of what this genre is like on Friday, Nov. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Wisconsin Union Theater. Read More
UT’s ‘Arabian Nights’ to tell tale of tolerance
In the University Theatre production of “The Arabian Nights,”the tension between distrust and detente is as real as the evening news. The production opens on Thursday, Nov. 16 Read More
UW historian helps PBS paint vivid picture of the California Gold Rush
As an historian, Susan Lee Johnson finds few subjects of American history more irresistible than the California Gold Rush, a movement that unfolded so fast and furiously that it must seem like watching history get shot from a cannon. Read More
Cinefest to feature civil rights, spoken word
Cinefest, a four-day extravaganza of documentary and politically charged filmmaking, will be held Thursday–Sunday, Nov. 16–19, at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Read More