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Manfred Pernice, “Untitled (Bicycle Rack),” 2002.The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis is recipient of a $125,000 Emily Hall Tremaine Exhibition Award. The award will support Reality Bites: Making Avant-Garde Art in Post-Wall Germany, the inaugural loan exhibition in the museum’s new facilities, scheduled to open in Fall 2006.

Maki & Associates, TokyoWashington University’s planned Sam Fox Arts Center.A $500,000 gift from Emily Rauh Pulitzer, founder and president of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, has established the first permanent endowment fund for the Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis.

MacKeithPeter MacKeith has been appointed associate director of the Sam Fox Arts Center at Washington University in St. Louis. MacKeith, who also serves as associate dean for the School of Architecture, will be responsible for public programming; collaborative teaching and research; and organization of the planned Whitaker Foundation Learning Lab.

Photo by David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesMary Jean Cowell and Cecil Slaughter perform “Sliders” as part of the 2004 “Dance Close-Up” Sept. 9-11.Ballet and modern dance will share the stage with Indian Bharata Natyam and multi-media work in Dance Close-Up, an intimate presentation of new and original choreography by faculty in the Dance Program Sept. 9-11.

An award-winning author and designer, he also serves as associate dean in the School of Architecture and will serve as academic liaison to the School of Art.

Over the next two years, Exile and Modernism will travel to four German museums and one in the United States.

Detail from Max Beckmann’s “Four Men Around a Table” (1943).H.W. Janson (1913-1982) is among the 20th century’s most influential art historians. Since 1962, his textbook History of Art, now in its sixth edition, has been used in countless college surveys and sold four million copies in 14 languages. Yet Janson, who emigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the mid-1930s to protest Nazi cultural policies, remains little known in his former country. That’s about to change, thanks to Exile and Modernism: H.W. Janson and the Collection of Washington University in St. Louis, a touring exhibition organized by the university’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum.

Festival Hall at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition The World’s Greatest Fair, a feature-length documentary about the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition, will premiere at St. Louis’ Fabulous Fox Theatre July 10, with additional screenings at the Tivoli Theatre July 12. The film, intended for national distribution, features several Washington University faculty and staff, including Steve Givens, Carol Diaz-Granados, Jeff Pike and Trebor Tichenor.

The Gateway Festival Orchestra will present its 41st season of free outdoor concerts with a trio of performances in Washington University’s Brookings Quadrangle July 11, 18 and 25.

Photo by Joe Angeles/WUSTL PhotoCommencement 2004 at Washington University in St. Louis will feature more than a dozen distinguished speakers, both at the All-University Ceremony (May 21) and at individual school diploma and recognition ceremonies (May 19-21).