Category Society & Culture
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. Read More
UW hosts events for black history month
In February the nation embarks upon its 35th Black History Month. To commemorate the occasion, the University of Wisconsin–Madison will host a number of special events. Read More
‘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." Read More
Book Smart
Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics; Tejumola Olaniyan Read More
Wisconsin Union Directorate seeks applicants
The Wisconsin Union Directorate is looking for student candidates to fill four officer positions and to become directors of its committees. The committees, which include art, music, contemporary issues and community service, offer students hands-on experience seldom available in the classroom. Read More
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. Read More
Kite flyers, makers highlight annual winter festival
Organizers of the seventh annual Kites on Ice festival at the Memorial Union invite the public to "Come Play in the Wind" on Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 5-6. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
‘Bunny Lake’ to open Cinematheque restoration series
The Cinematheque restoration series provides a golden opportunity for the university community, as well as members of the wider community, to discover — or rediscover — some of the best American cinema as it was meant to be seen. Read More
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. Read More
‘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. Read More
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. Read More
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. Read More
Treasured job leads to library gift
The charm of Madison captured the heart of David Henige, but it was his position as African Studies bibliographer at the Memorial Library that allowed him to stay. Although he doesn't consider himself a "red-sweater-type" UW employee, he is here because he wants to be. And he's been here for 30 years. Read More
Kites on Ice returns to Memorial Union
Kites on Ice, a Wisconsin winter kite festival that attracted an estimated 80,000 visitors to campus last year, will return to Memorial Union and the ice of Lake Mendota on Saturday, Feb. 5, and Sunday, Feb. 6. Read More