Author: Liam Otten

The Gateway Festival Orchestra will launch its 48th season of free Sunday-evening concerts July 10 with Various Variations, a program exploring the use of variations by a handful of composers from the Baroque period through the 20th century. Subsequent performances will take place July 17, 24 and 31.

It is among the most indelible images of Cold War-era film: Slim Pickens, as Major “King” Kong, riding an atom bomb to extinction, cowboy hat waving in the wind. The scene is from Stanley Kubrick’s pitch-black political satire Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). On June 17, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present a free outdoor screening of Dr. Strangelove in conjunction with the exhibition Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation.

Washington University’s 150th Commencement was a day to celebrate, honor and remember for these School of Medicine degree candidates waiting to proceed into the ceremony the morning of May 20 in Brookings Quadrangle.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum is one of the oldest university museums in the country. This summer, the museum will resume its Lunch & Learn program, a popular series of lunchtime tours open to any campus department or group.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present two new exhibitions beginning Friday, May 6, and running through Monday, Aug. 1. Cosima von Bonin: Character Appropriation is the first solo museum exhibition in the American Midwest for the influential conceptual artist, who lives and works in Cologne, Germany. The 2011 MFA Thesis Exhibition will feature projects by 24 graduating master of fine arts candidates in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts honored eight outstanding architecture and art alumni at its fourth annual Awards for Distinction dinner April 28 at the Coronado Ballroom in St. Louis. The awards recognized graduates who have demonstrated creativity, innovation, leadership and vision through their contributions to the practices of art, architecture and design, as well as to WUSTL and the Sam Fox School.

Annelise Mertz, professor emerita in the Performing Arts Department (PAD) in Arts & Sciences, died Friday, April 28, at her home in Clayton, of pancreatic cancer. She was 93.

Raymond Nadaskay, a practicing architect for the past 44 years, is co-founder and principal emeritus of NK Architects. The firm is a leader in educational and health-care projects with an emphasis on sustainable design. His longstanding contributions to Washington University include his commitment to developing scholarships for architecture students and his support of capital improvements […]

Ebony G. Patterson is a mixed-media artist who frequently investigates issues of culture, identity, gender, and the female body in her work. She also is an assistant professor of painting and drawing at the University of Kentucky. Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Patterson earned an Honors Diploma in Painting from Edna Manley College of the Visual […]

Susan T. Morgan, AIA, LEED AP, is a senior project architect with Bruner/Cott & Associates, a Cambridge-based design firm focused on architectural preservation, sustainability, and collaborative design. Born into a family of architects in Minnesota, Morgan earned a Bachelor of Science in Architecture, magna cum laude, from Washington University in 2001 and a Master of […]