Category Society & Culture
First master plan meeting reveals East Campus pedestrian mall
A lively home for the arts and humanities that brings together new student housing and services along an east campus pedestrian mall was laid out by campus officials as they opened town-hall meetings on the campus master plan.
University Theatre production adds educational depth to drama training
The thing about a George Bernard Shaw play is its dialogue, according to Mark Lococo, director of the University Theatre production of Shaw's "Misalliance."
Festival celebrates political filmmakers
Filmmaker Saul Landau's films will be featured at the Sixth Annual CineFest Film Festival Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 24-26. "The Landau Legacy with Special Guest Haskell Wexler: Films from the Americas and Beyond," is a three-day extravaganza of documentary and politically charged filmmaking, which will take place on campus and in the Madison community.
‘In My View’ reveals art’s influence
How does art influence a physicist, a physician, a geographer? Showing that art reaches across disciplines and inspires people of all professions is the goal of a lecture series at the Elvehjem Museum of Art called "In My View."
Book Smart
Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics; Tejumola Olaniyan
UW-Madison to celebrate black history
In February the nation will embark upon its 35th Black History Month, and UW–Madison will host several events.
Guest pianist to appear with Pro Arte Quartet
Acclaimed pianist Gilbert Kalish will join the Pro Arte Quartet in concert at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 28, in Mills Hall.
Elvehjem to present exhibition of recent minimalist art
Under the guest curatorship of art scholar and UW–Madison alumnus Joseph Cunningham, "Minimalist Art Now" charts the development of minimalist painting and drawing from 1980 to the present.
Photo exhibit examines issue of gender using portraiture
How time has changed the answers to those questions is at the root of a new exhibition at Knapp House.
School of Music mourns loss of longtime professor
The School of Musics and opera lovers in Madison and beyond mourn the death of David Hottmann, professor of music emeritus, who passed away on Jan. 2.
Library liaison also helps others discover environmental art
Working with acclaimed environmental artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude may not be the usual Caribbean-resort winter vacation. Nonetheless, Thomas H. Garver, liaison to the Friends of the UW–Madison Libraries, is about to spend two weeks staffing an information center for Christo's new installation, "The Gates," in New York's Central Park.
Concerts, collaborations fill spring dance program
The excitement of live performance will resound throughout Lathrop Hall this spring as the Dance Program showcases works by guest artists, students, faculty and staff in a variety of events this semester.
Two faculty concerts help launch spring semester
Cellist Parry Karp, baritone Paul Rowe, soprano Cheryl Bensman Rowe, flutist Stephanie Jutt and pianist Martha Fischer will perform Ravel's "Chansons madécasses" at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 21, in Mills Concert Hall in the Mosse Humanities Building. In addition, their program will include works by Brahms, Previn and Pasatieri.
‘Snowdown’ to showcase snow artistry
Assuming that snow remains on Library Mall, sculptors in the snow medium are invited to show what they can do as part of the university's welcome activities for the new semester. Construction will take place at 1 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 23.
New acquisitions on display in Elvehjem
"Equilibrist," a lithograph by Swiss artist Paul Klee (1879-1940); "Small Worlds VI," a black-and-white woodcut by central European printmaker Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and prints from the Bauhaus School, thought to usher in the modern era of design, are now on view in the Elvehjem Museum's New Acquisitions Display Case. All will be on display there until Monday, Jan. 31.
Artist in residence to perform harp works
Karen Beth Atz, artist in residence at the School of Music and principal harp with the Madison Symphony, performs at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 25, in Mills Hall.