Author: Liam Otten

Micki Lippe is an acclaimed jewelry artist whose one-of-a-kind and production necklaces and earrings have been shown at galleries and museums across the United States. Her most recent work — frequently inspired by hikes through the great forests of the Pacific Northwest — finds her moving away from the elegant precision of previous pieces in […]

Jerome Sincoff is former president and CEO of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum (HOK), one of the world’s largest architecture firms, as well as former dean of the College of Architecture and the Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design. A St. Louis native, Sincoff graduated from University City High School in 1951 and earned his […]

“There is no greater crime than abandoning your history.” So learns Undine, a hard-charging Manhattan social climber who is forced back to Brooklyn in Fabulation, Lynn Nottage’s Obie Award-winning satire of the African-American bourgeoisie. The Performing Arts Department  in Arts & Sciences will present the sharp-eyed comedy from Thursday through Sunday, March 25-28, in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre.  

Renowned art critic George Baker, an editor of the journal October, will discuss the work of contemporary photographer and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Public Lecture Series Monday, March 15. Lockhart’s most recent project, Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, currently is on view at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Johann Sebastian Bach never wrote a conga, a bolero or a cha-cha-cha. Fortunately this oversight has been rectified by Tiempo Libre, which has earned national attention for its high-voltage interpretations of many of the composer’s best-loved works. At 8 p.m. Friday, March 26, Tiempo Libre will bring its infectious mash-up of Cuban rhythms and classical melodies to the Edison Theatre OVATIONS Series. 

Over the past two decades Jolly Stewart has been a force in St. Louis opera. Friday and Saturday, March 19 and 20, the Washington University Opera will celebrate Stewart’s upcoming retirement with an “all-star” performance of Die Fledermaus, the beloved operetta by Johann Strauss II. The production will feature nine returning alumni — all of whom sing professionally — as well as celebrated baritone Ian Greenlaw, teacher of applied music in Arts & Sciences.

Over the past 30 years, books in all their permutations have served as both subject and medium for Franklin “Buzz” Spector, dean of the College and Graduate School of Art. Spector rips, stacks, tears, sews, bends and otherwise alters both found and custom-made volumes. The process can result in an installation, a photograph, an individual object, an editioned artists’ book or even a collage of the torn-away pieces.  

Baritone Ian Greenlaw, teacher of applied music in Arts & Sciences, will join members of The Kingsbury Ensemble, St. Louis’ leading early-music group, for a concert titled “Music of Classical Vienna” at 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 28. 

Gaylyn Studlar, Ph.D., director of the Program in Film and Media Studies in Arts & Sciences, has been named the David May Distinguished University Professor in the Humanities. Studlar has written widely on the representation of gender in film, film genres, trans-media practices in popular culture and American film history, especially from the 1910s through the 1950s.

In Ireland, the toe-tapping collegiality of an impromptu living room concert can be summed up in single word: craic. And perhaps no band better exemplifies the essence of craic than Danú. Hailed as a “spirit-raising concoction” by The Irish Times, this five-member ensemble is among the most charismatic and sophisticated traditional Irish groups working today, known for mixing ancient Irish songs with new additions to the repertoire in concerts that are at once authentic, clever and fun.