Author: Liam Otten

CarlinSeth Carlin, professor of music in Arts & Sciences, will join Washington University’s Kingsbury Ensemble at 8 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 29, as featured fortepianist in “The Splendor of Vienna,” a concert of chamber music by Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven.

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum”Inside Out Loud”This spring, more than 30 campus and community partners will join the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis to present close to 70 events relating to women’s health. Events — which range from exhibitions, concerts and theatrical performances to lectures, seminars and health screenings — are held in conjunction with the museum’s Inside Out Loud: Women’s Health in Contemporary Art, the first major exhibition dedicated to the topic, which will be on view Jan. 21 to April 24.

Lois GreenfieldMonique HaleyThe River North Chicago Dance Company, the eclectic, 13-member ensemble known for packing concerts with short, engaging works by contemporary choreographers, will return to Washington University’s Edison Theatre for a trio of performances Jan. 21-23.

Courtesy photoLiz CallawayBetween them,singers Liz Callaway and Jason Graae boast eleven Broadway shows, more than 65 recordings and dozens of film and television appearances. They also boast a friendship that has survived more than 20 years of showbiz. On Jan. 15, the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series will present these “musical pals” in Backstage Broadway Buddies, an intimate Cabaret-style evening of standards and stories, solos and duets, gossip and sentiment.

GalumphaGalumpha — the New York-based dance trio known for a daring combination of physical comedy, acrobatic choreography and striking visual effects — will descend upon St. Louis Jan. 15 for a special one-time-only matinee as part of the Edison Theatre ovations! for young people series.

The duo will present Backstage Broadway Buddies, an intimate performance of standards and stories, solos and duets, gossip and sentiment.

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, […]

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

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

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.