Arts & Culture

David Kilper/WUSTL Photo ServicesThe Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present Naomi Wallace’s “The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek,” a poignant and erotically charged coming-of-age tale Jan. 24-27 in the A.E. Hotchner Studio Theatre in the Mallinckrodt Student Center.

Robert EtcheverryDynamo Theatre CompanyMontreal’s acclaimed DynamO Théâtre will launch Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series with me me me, a whirling mix of gymnastics, theater, juggling and mime that tackles perhaps the toughest of all political arenas: grade school.

Montreal’s acclaimed DynamO Théâtre will launch Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series with “me me me,” a whirling mix of gymnastics, theater, juggling and mime that tackles perhaps the toughest of all political arenas: grade school. The special one-day-only performance begins at 11 a.m. Jan. 12 in Edison Theatre. Written by the playwright […]

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts has announced the recipients of its first annual Faculty Creative Activity Research Grants. Five faculty members from the College of Art and the College of Architecture will each receive $5,000 to support a variety of projects, from publications and video documentary to large-scale public sculpture.

Thaddeus Strode, *Absolutes and Nothings*Since the late 1980s Los Angeles-based painter Thaddeus Strode has created wild, vibrantly colored mash-ups in which California surf and skateboard culture collide with Zen philosophy, rock music, literature, film, comic books and other popular motifs, all mixing freely with the artist’s own inventions. In February, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present the first major museum exhibition dedicated to Strode’s work as part of its Contemporary Projects series.

The Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at WUSTL has announced the recipients of its first annual Faculty Creative Activity Research Grants. Five faculty members from the College of Art and the College of Architecture will each receive $5,000 to support a variety of projects, from publications and video documentary to large-scale public sculpture.

Montreal’s acclaimed DynamO Théâtre will launch Edison Theatre’s popular ovations! for young people series with “me me me,” a whirling mix of gymnastics, theater, juggling and mime that tackles perhaps the toughest of all political arenas: grade school. The special one-day-only performance begins at 11 a.m. on Jan. 12 in Edison Theatre.

Courtesy ImageThe Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Iconic Blonde Film Festival Dec. 4-6. Held in conjunction with the exhibition “Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture,” the festival will feature screenings of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” Dec. 4, “Vertigo” Dec. 5 and “Bonnie and Clyde” Dec. 6 at the Tivoli Theatre, 6350 Delmar Blvd.

Washington University alumna Kathleen Finneran, author of the memoir “The Tender Land: A Family Love Story” (2003), will read from her work at 8 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 29, in Duncker Hall, Room 201, Hurst Lounge. The talk, part of The Writing Program in Arts & Sciences’ fall Reading Series, is free and open to the […]

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Iconic Blonde Film Festival Dec. 4-6. Held in conjunction with the exhibition “Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture,” the festival will feature screenings of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” Dec. 4, “Vertigo” Dec. 5 and “Bonnie and Clyde” Dec. 6.