ovations! for young people presents Galumpha Jan. 15

A three-headed human fly? Totem poles that come to life? Velcro-helmeted weirdoes who defy the laws of physics? Is this a horror movie or a comic book? No, it’s Galumpha, a New York-based dance trio whose daring combination of physical comedy, acrobatic choreography and striking visual effects is quickly earning a national following. In January, […]

Through the perilous fight

Photo by Bill StoverThe Concert Choir of Washington University performs the national anthem before the Dec. 5 St. Louis Rams game.

Method removes toxin from water

Pratim Biswas has found a method for removing MTBE, which been detected at low levels in municipal water sources around the nation.

Women’s health focus of major exhibit for the first time

Hannah Wilke, “Intra-Venus #4, February 19, 1992,” (1992-93)Women’s bodies — nude, adorned, eroticized, abstracted — figure prominently in the history of art. Yet the art of women’s health is shockingly new. In January, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major museum-level exhibition dedicated to the topic. The show tracks the emergence of women’s health in American art from the early 1980s to the present, and includes approximately 50 artworks in a variety of traditional and cutting-edge media by more than 30 internationally known artists and artists’ groups.
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