‘The night sky and the asphalt road’
Kahlil Robert Irving (MFA ’17) will present “Archaeology of the Present,” a 2,000-square-foot installation exploring our relationship to the city street, at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum beginning Feb. 23.
Student artists can apply for Art of Democracy residency
Undergraduate student artists of any kind are welcome to apply for the Atkin Residency in the Art of Democracy. The application deadline is March 7.
Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake. Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might have seemed like an average midwestern town, the activism that exploded there after Brown’s killing laid bare how longstanding municipal planning policies had […]
‘Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air’
“Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to the Mexico City Air” will open Feb. 23 at the Kemper Art Museum. The installation highlights the contaminants — the ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur and nitrogen oxides — that can slowly but surely poison urban environments.
Dize to edit ‘Global Black Writers in Translation’
Nathan Dize, an assistant professor of French in Arts & Sciences, has been appointed co-editor of the new trade book series “Global Black Writers in Translation.”
Student club hosts Stuart Weitzman, shoe designer and entrepreneur, Feb. 8
Legendary shoe designer and entrepreneur Stuart Weitzman will discuss his design philosophy and experience building an internationally renowned company at a free event Feb. 8 open to the WashU community.
Award-winning sci-fi author Nnedi Okorafor to speak
New York Times bestselling author Nnedi Okorafor will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in Umrath Hall Lounge. The event is sponsored by the African Students Association at Washington University with support from the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program.
As the Rivers Merge
A Story of Love, War and Perseverance Across Continents
When the Nigerian Civil War crept to his quiet college town, Matthew Mamah’s global journey began. His father, an Anglican priest who survived smallpox, had always urged him to “aim high and shoot high.” Matthew knew that his quest for excellence could take him to the horizon’s edge, but he never imagined himself in Budapest, […]
Body Language
The Queer Staged Photographs of George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa
Body Language is the first in-depth study of the extraordinary interplay between George Platt Lynes and PaJaMa (Paul Cadmus, Jared French, and Margaret Hoening French). Nick Mauss and Angela Miller offer timely readings of how their practices of staging, collaboration, and psychological enactment through the body arced across the boundaries of art and life, private […]
A Planetary Avant-Garde
Experimental Literature Networks and the Legacy of Iberian Colonialism
A Planetary Avant-Garde explores how experimental poetics and literature networks have aesthetically and politically responded to the legacy of Iberian colonialism across the world. The book examines avant-garde responses to Spanish and Portuguese imperialism across Europe, Latin America, West Africa, and Southeast Asia between 1909 and 1929. Ignacio Infante critically traces the hegemony and resistance […]
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