Arts & Culture

Distinguished poet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will deliver the first of three talks on poetry at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in Umrath Lounge on the Danforth Campus, as part of the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities (IPH) in Arts & Sciences and WUSTL’s Assembly Series. Based on the theme of “The Art of Restlessness: On Poetry and Making,” Phillips’ talks are free and open to the public. The March 25th program will focus on “Poetry and Resistance.”

Mike Venso/Laumeier Sculpture ParkAschheim’s “Earworm (Node),” contains LEDs, plastic, speakers, music and copper.Artist Deborah Aschheim, known for her focus on interactive multi-sensory responses to neuroscience, memory and cognition, joins Washington University faculty from art, medicine, psychology and neuroscience for a free public panel discussion examining the relationship between Aschheim’s art and brain science at 6 p.m. March 20 in Room 110, January Hall. The “Deborah Aschheim: Reconsider,” exhibition, on display at Laumeier Sculpture Park, explores why we remember what we see and hear and why we forget, while offering a solution to curb the “forgetting curve.”

Shelves weigh heavy with the anatomical art of the past thousand years. Plate by plate, detail by detail, artists rendered the three-dimensional anatomy of human figures on two-dimensional surfaces. Such works reveal more than meets the eye, according to artist Libby Reuter. Her works are on display at the Farrell Learning and Teaching Center through May 15.

Musicians from Washington University and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will join forces to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of French composer Olivier Messiaen. The concert — sponsored by the Department of Music in Arts & Sciences, the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Community Partnership Program and KWUR 90.3 FM — is free and […]

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, known for his innovative use of forms and materials, will present the 2008 Cannon Design Lecture for Excellence in Architecture & Engineering for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts. The lecture is free and open to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in […]

Courtesy PhotoIrish contemporary dance company CoisCéim (pronounced Kush Came) will make its St. Louis debut with the acclaimed “Knots” as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series at 8 p.m. Feb. 29 and March 1.

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, known for his innovative use of forms and materials, will present the 2008 Cannon Design Lecture for Excellence in Architecture & Engineering for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.

CarlinMusicians from Washington University and the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra will join forces to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of French composer Olivier Messiaen, one of the 20th century’s most influential composers. The concert will highlight Messiaen’s signature Quartet for the End of Time, written in a German prison camp during World War II.

Lizzie Borden took an ax And gave her mother 40 whacks When she saw what she had done She gave her father 41 So goes the well-known nursery rhyme, though the victims were actually Borden’s father and stepmother. And more than 100 years after that infamous double murder, Borden — who was acquitted of the […]

Irish contemporary dance company CoisCéim (pronounced Kush Came) will make its St. Louis debut with the acclaimed “Knots” as part of the Edison Theatre OVATIONS! Series at 8 p.m. Feb. 29 and March 1.