Author: Liam Otten

Charlie Robin, director of Edison Theatre, recommends the dancer-athletes of Diavolo. Diavolo is performing at the Touhill Center this Friday, Feb. 28, and Saturday, March 1.

With his round glasses, amused diction and stiff, patrician carriage, Harold Ramis (AB ’66), was the coolest nerd in the room, a deadpan bomb-thrower, an ironist for the ages. You were never sure if he was joking. That was half the joke.

Finland is renowned for its architecture and design culture. Peter MacKeith has spent much of his career engaging that culture — living in Finland, teaching there, working in design practice and writing about the work of contemporary practitioners. On Feb. 14, MacKeith was presented with the insignia of Knight, First Class, of the Order of the Lion of Finland.

Arny Nader creates large sculptural installations that feel fantastic and whimsical yet grounded in utilitarian purpose. Last fall, Nadler won a $20,000 artist fellowship from the Regional Arts Commission of Greater St. Louis. We sat down to discuss growing up in Chicago, restructuring the undergraduate majors and the malleability of steel.

Shinohara Kazua remains something of a cult figure. Although his work has inspired generations of architects, it has seldom been seen outside Japan. But this spring, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum presents “On the Thresholds of Space-Making,” the first U.S. museum show dedicated to the influential mathematician-turned-architect.

Acclaimed poet C.D. Wright, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for poetry, will read from her work Thursday, Feb. 20. Wright is author of 12 collections, most recently “One With Others” (2010), which combines poetry and documentary evidence to portray her native Arkansas during the Civil Rights era.

The Vanderhof home is filled with individualists, eccentric more than rugged, chasing assorted muses. Rooms run riot with dance rehearsals, printing presses, wild animals and small explosives. But then Alice falls in love with the son of a Wall Street executive. Can these two families — the free spirits and the moneyed snobs—ever reconcile?

Bruce Lindsey, dean of architecture, and Peter MacKeith, associate professor of architecture, both have won important honors in the 2013-14 Architectural Education Awards.

Incarnadine is a fleshy hue, a blushing, pinkish crimson, akin to salmon or rust or rose, the color of pale sunsets, of angels’ robes, of water stained by blood. But blue is the color that dominates “Incarnadine” (2013), Mary Szybist’s second collection: the blues of bright skies and dark oceans, of pretty dresses and ominous clouds, of feathers and bubbles and bruises long past healing.

​Mary Jo Bang is a poet who, for most of her life, has secretly made visual art. Buzz Spector is a visual artist who, for most of his life, has sercretly made poetry. Now both reveal their secret practices with “Otherwise,” an exhibition on view through Feb. 8 at the Fort Condo Compound for the Arts.