More than 30 quilts, many from around the country, will be featured at a new exhibit titled "Master Quilts Past and Present: Preserving the Voice of America's Quiltmakers," at the Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa.
The James Joyce Quarterly at The University of Tulsa celebrates 40 years of publication in conjunction with the 2003 North American James Joyce Festival at TU June 16-20.
Musicians who hear the music they are performing while learning a new piece have a better memory for the music later, a new study suggests. But after they learn a song, actually hearing the music as they play does not improve the accuracy of their performance.
Modern Art Oxford has published a catalogue of Jake & Dinos Chapman's exhibition The Rape of Creativity to be launched Friday 30 May.
The first major installation on Tate Modern's North Landscape will be a newly commissioned inflatable sculpture by the American Paul McCarthy, who is considered one of the most influential and groundbreaking artists of today. Blockhead will stand over thirty-five metres tall and be a spectacular addition to London's Bankside.
Henry Moore: Public Sculptures brings together around twenty works by the sculptor in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. The display focuses on the large monumental public sculptures that Moore (1898-1986) made from the 1940s onwards including many of the most important examples.
The use of film and video by artists in Britain over the past decade has attracted much attention. However, artists have worked with film and video in this country from the beginning of the twentieth century and now, for the first time, Tate Britain aims to explore this history.
The first exhibition in Ireland by Gary Hume, one of the most sought-after and inventive painters working in Britain today, opens to the public at the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Entitled simply Gary Hume, the exhibition comprises some 30 works and presents a comprehensive overview of the main developments in Hume's engaging but powerful oeuvre over the past ten years.
"Places of the Spirit: Sacred Sites of the Adirondacks" at the Adirondack Lake Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, NY, May 23rd. Curated by Mara Miller of the Miller/Geisler Gallery in New York City, the exhibition includes the work of photographers: Barry Lobdell, Heather MacLeod, Romaine Orthwein, and Shellburne Thurber.
SILVERDOCS: AFI/Discovery Channel Documentary Festival will announce its film slate and spotlight symposia schedule in a dial-in Teleconference call for the media on May 20, 2003.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will be the sole venue outside Paris for a major retrospective of the work of painter Marc Chagall from July 26 through November 4, 2003.
Gettysburg College has received the largest gift in its history, an approximately $14-million bequest from Dr. F. William Sunderman, a 1919 graduate who was the institution"šs oldest alumnus until his death March 9 at 104.
ICA Exhibitions Programme 2003: 1) Anna Sanders Films; 2) Video Acts; 3) Foreign Office Architects (FOA) .
Credit card fraud scams, Alzheimer's disease, downsizing to an apartment are just some of the things seniors have to cope with as they age. Now an Edmonton theatre troupe calling themselves the Geriactors are bringing these issues to the stage, showing the public some of the ups and downs of growing older.
Parsons School of Design proudly presents "= =", an exhibition of thesis work from over 70 students of the MFA program in Design & Technology.
Two hours spent dipping pipe cleaner armatures into bubble solution yielded valuable insights into minimal surfaces for University of Arkansas students in a unique course co-taught by architecture, mathematics and computer science professors.
In 1971, Jonathan Holstein and the Whitney Museum of American Art turned heads with an exhibition of something new that ignited a renaissance. "žAbstract Design in American Quilts"° brought quilts into art museums. This ground-breaking Whitney exhibition collection, together with more than 350 Lancaster County, Penn., and Amish quilts are now at a new home at the International Quilt Study Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
1) It's up to Democrats to make Santorum's remarks matter. 2) New battle in Iraq: Healthcare solutions. 3) Amber alert about more than just highway messages. 4) Stable oil markets don't mean lower gas prices.
Friends and family of pilot killed in Gulf War I honor his memory with anonymous acts of kindness. Gestures recorded in Post Office Box issued to the deceased.
The Mills College Art Museum will join the Oakland Museum of California and the African American Museum and Library at Oakland to present "Reflections in Black," the first exhibition exploring the history of black photography from 1840 to the present, with more than 300 powerful images by 120 photographers.
Work by renowned artists Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Will Barnet, Jane Goldman, Mags Harries and Edward Sorel, among others, will be auctioned off at Montserrat College of Art's upcoming 17th Annual Art Auction, Artrageous!
Franklin Raines has been called one of the most successful chief executives of any Fortune 500 company. On May 22, the Fannie Mae Chairman and CEO will head to the University of Maryland as the featured speaker during commencement ceremonies in the Comcast Center.
A press briefing and webcast on research results of the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation for Reading Instruction and the publication of the results, "Prepared to Make a Difference" and on "The Importance of Early Reading and Family Literacy" will be held.
A Canadian studies professor at St. Lawrence University will write a biography of author Alice Munro, with funding from Canada's Molson family.
At the newly renovated Smith College Museum of Art, even the restrooms are works of art. Installation works by noted artists Sandy Skoglund (men's room) and Ellen Driscoll (women's room) intentionally blur the boundaries between form and function, personal and public.
Lewis and Clark will move from Monticello to Philadelphia in May, with help from Lewis & Clark College. The private liberal arts college will move its traveling exhibition "The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition" to Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences.
1) Bush's ability to lead country at war doesn't assure his reelection, presidential historian says. 2) Study shows wages, benefits keys in retaining welfare-to-work employees.
1) U.S. needs to take a step back in setting up Iraqi government. 2) 24-hour live coverage may not cover the real story of the war. 3) Non-english websites can translate into a different view of Iraq.
Lewis & Clark College commemorates the expedition's bicentennial with a new book, which is the first comprehensive bibliography of expedition publications to be published in a century.
The Guggenheim Foundation has awarded University of Arkansas researcher Robert Brinkmeyer one of its prestigious fellowships to study how totalitarianism influenced Southern literature during World War II.
The San Francisco Art Institute recently inaugurated a new program at the Instituto Superior de Arte, Cuba's leading art school. The first time that Cuba has invited a partnership with a U.S. art school at this level, the program includes a new department of study at ISA, and joint seminars between the schools.
The project will provide a complete set of digital sectional views of both the female and male, and can be transmittd over the new super, compressed internet. Images will replace the use of cadavers in scientific research labs and non-medical graduate and undergraduate Allied Health curricula.
The Watergate papers of Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein have been acquired for $5 million by The University of Texas at Austin.
1) Recent surveys showing that the majority of African Americans don't support the war in Iraq should come as no surprise, says Temple African-American studies professor Ella Forbes. 2) In wartime, sports offer diversion for troops, fans.
New England Conservatory (NEC) celebrates its 132nd Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 18, 2003 at 3:00 p.m., in NEC's Jordan Hall (290 Huntington Avenue, Boston).
New England Conservatory Opera Theater presents Leonard Bernstein's Candide in Northeastern University's Blackman Auditorium April 24-27.
Visitors to the New Orleans Museum of Art this spring and summer will have a chance to peek in the windows of Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home a thousand miles away in Virginia, thanks to University of North Carolina and University of Virginia computer graphics researchers who have devised a way to capture and display three-dimensional scans of Monticello's rooms.
Showing an outstanding selection of 117 important works of art from the Tokyo National Museum collection, the exhibition "Soul and Beauty of Japan" will open on 28 August 2003 in the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Palace Museum in Taipei houses the largest collection of Chinese art in the world. Many of the 650,000 objects have not been exhibited or made public to this day. The Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany was granted the privilege of making for itself a selection of 400 exhibits to be shown in Berlin and Bonn.
From 23 May onwards, Anthony Cragg will exhibit large sculptures in the roof garden of the Art and Exhibition Hall. This show sums up thirty years of his activity as a sculptor and expressly reaffirms Cragg's standing.
This year marks the 200th annivesary of the Lewis and Clark expedition. This guide provides story ideas with a modern perspective, ranging from an original Lewis and Clark opera to a new web site showcasing maps reconstucting the expedition's journey.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today two special grants totaling $4,500,000 in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray, who has just retired as chairman of its Board of Trustees after having served as a Board member for 23 years.
Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, will accept an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art and Design at its 155th Commencement on Monday, May 19, 10:00am -12:00pm in Philadelphia.
Rhode Island School of Design's Department of Furniture Design invited to showcase student work at the worlds most widely visited furniture show 42nd Annual Salone Internazional del Mobile in Milan, Italy.
1) War continues to ground airlines, but bargains are available, 2) War coverage leaves big questions unanswered, 3) History shows that American psyche is strong
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to open with top-notch films. Poised to repeat history, the expanded theatre complex anchors a $400 million project expected to transform Silver Spring, MD into an arts and entertainment destination.
Despite the popular notion that the period between the two world wars was one of marital and family stability, a study of the art and marriages of two of the 20th century's most popular artists indicates it was instead a difficult and unsettling time for many middle-class Americans.
In his book, Kerry Walters argues that Americans live in a culture of fear that prizes security and dreads vulnerability above everything else. This need to feel safe is why many react angrily to pacifists, he says.
The award-winning Moore HoneyHouse has reaped international recognition for renowned University of Arkansas architecture professor Marlon Blackwell. On March 18, Blackwell will present a lecture in London to the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The Boston Architectural Center welcomes theater historian, designer, and consultant Iain Mackintosh of Theatre Projects Consultants, London, as the speaker at the 11th Annual Cascieri Lectureship in the Humanities on Friday, April 25, 2003, at 7:30pm.
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