Arts & Culture

Ronald Leax, the Halsey Cooley Ives Professor of Art, has been named dean of art, according to Carmon Colangelo, dean of the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. Leax will lead the College of Art and the Graduate School of Art, succeeding Jeff Pike, the Jane Reuter Hitzeman and Herbert F. Hitzeman, Jr. Professor in Art.

To celebrate nearly 100 years of existence and a new era in social work education, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work is publishing “What We Believe: A History of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work: 1909-2007” by Candace O’Connor.

The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, at Umrath Hall Lounge as part of its “Opera Circus” concert. Performances are sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences and are free and open to the […]

This summer, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating the life and work of neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer with a special exhibition on view May 2 through July 21.

On May 10, Dan Zanes & Friends present a pair of shows as part of Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series.

To celebrate nearly 100 years of existence and a new era in social work education, the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis is publishing What We Believe: A History of the George Warren Brown School of Social Work: 1909- 2007. Author Candace O’Connor begins the book with a look at poverty in St. Louis and the early history of social work education locally, and concludes with an overview of more recent accomplishments and a glimpse at the Brown School’s future. Threaded throughout the book are milestones and evolutions in social work education as well as first-person accounts from alumni and current and former faculty.

You’ve heard opera, and you’ve heard rock, but you’ve never heard opera rocked like the East Village Opera Company. Over the past five years, this powerhouse ensemble — comprising a five-piece band, a string quartet and two outstanding vocalists — has created electric, hard-hitting arrangements of many of opera’s “greatest hits.” At 8 p.m. May […]

The Washington University Opera will perform close to a dozen excerpts from eight well-known operas at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, May 2 and 3, as part of its “Opera Circus” concert. The program will include selections by Beethoven, Donizetti, Mozart, Humperdinck, Bizet, Lehar, Hoiby and Strauss.

Harriet Hosmer, *Oenone* (1854-55)Neoclassical sculptor Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (1830-1908) was one of the most successful women artists of her day, described by the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning as “a perfectly emancipated female.” She was also the first woman to study anatomy at what would become the Washington University School of Medicine and produced many of her most significant works — such as the bronze statue of Missouri senator Thomas Hart Benton in Lafayette Park — for St. Louis patrons. This summer the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will join other local institutions in celebrating Hosmer’s life and work with a special Teaching Gallery exhibition, on view May 2 to July 21.

The Washington University Symphony Orchestra and Concert Choir will present the 2008 Chancellor’s Concert at 3 p.m. Sunday, April 27. Sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, the concert is free and open to the public and will take place in the 560 Music Center’s E. Desmond Lee Concert Hall. Dan Presgrave, […]