Tag Arts
Technology to predict strain gets a perfect model: Michelangelo’s ‘David’
For statues, stress injuries come from standing in place for hundreds of years. Using a novel technique, researchers have now developed a way to predict such fracturing, applying the procedure to Michelangelo's famous statue "David" in an analysis that proved simpler, faster and more accurate than previous methods.
Collaboration key to Union Theater’s success
Ralph Russo, cultural arts director of the Wisconsin Unions and Union Theater director, says that the magic experienced at the Union Theater is the result of a collaborative process: “We are not an ‘I’ organization; we’re a team. At the theater, students drive the programming and the staff works to support that. This arrangement is unique in higher education. Usually, campus performing arts facilities are not connected to campus/student unions.”
Wisconsin artists featured at new children’s hospital
If you chance to walk through the halls of the months-old American Family Children’s Hospital, try not to blink. There is so much to see: Every stretch of hallway is bursting with artistic touches — sculpture, watercolor paintings and colorful alphabet quilts.
Students, professors invited to apply for Hirsch Family Award
Undergraduate students and their professors still have time to apply for the inaugural Hirsch Family Award, created by alumnus Jim Hirsch and his wife, Judy. The deadline for applications is Friday, March 14.
Hot subjects—Music 319: Musical Ethnicities of Wisconsin
Most students are surprised to find on the timetable that a Wisconsin-focused class could fulfill their ethnic studies requirement. But music professor Susan Cook says her new class takes a broad view of both music and ethnicity, diving into the use of music in ethnic settlements in Wisconsin since the 1800s, such as the Swiss in New Glarus and Germans in Milwaukee. She will also explore the musical traditions of Native Americans and recent Hmong immigrants.
Slide show: Revolution’s Wallpaper
Jim Huberty, who was a political science student at the University of Wisconsin during the Vietnam War era of the late 1960s and early 1970s, is displaying select pieces of his collection of protest publicity posters through March 11 in an exhibit, “Revolution’s Wallpaper,” in the Class of 1925 Gallery at Memorial Union, 800 Langdon St., on the UW–Madison campus.
Playing double: A UW pianist gets hands-on with a unique instrument
Christopher Taylor has two pianos in his campus studio. One has eighty-eight keys; the other has almost twice that many. Taylor, an assistant professor of music, is the unofficial keeper of a double-keyboard Steinway.
Concerts, exhibits, plays among spring events
There’s no end in sight for the strike at the Writers Guild of America, but that doesn’t mean you need to sit around boo-hooing, watching reruns or mind-numbing reality TV. Much finer entertainments are in the works on campus for the spring semester. See a play, visit a gallery, take in a film and attend a concert, or two or seven. Campus arts groups will present the works of the world-renowned as well as our student artists-in-the-making.