Arts & Culture

It’s election season once again, but the political fun continues even after votes are cast. On Thursday, Nov. 9, the Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will host “Playwrights and Politics: Two Acts on the National and International Scene.” The symposium will examine the nature of political theatre and the impact of the arts on national and international politics.

bell hooks, the ground-breaking feminist author, teacher, social activist and cultural critic, will give the Black Arts & Sciences Lecture for the Assembly Series at 11 a.m., Wednesday, November 1 in Graham Chapel. The lecture, “Self-Determination: Where Do We Begin?” is free and open to the public.

Sculptor transforms mundane consumer products into playful yet meticulously crafted artworks.

Speakers will include William H. Gass, Richard “Red” Watson, Margarita Boyers and Robert Boyers.

Set in pre-revolutionary Russia, the play tells the story of Tevye, a hardworking milkman who must find suitable husbands for his three eldest daughters.

Hamilton, one of the most challenging and provocative installation artists working today, is a 1993 recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, popularly nicknamed the “genius grant.”

The Department of English in Arts & Sciences will host a memorial reading in honor of Charles Newman, an acclaimed writer and longtime faculty member, who passed away last March at the age of 67. Speakers will include William H. Gass, Richard “Red” Watson, Margarita Boyers and Robert Boyers.

First art museum west of Mississippi River to open new facilities Oct. 25 by Fumihiko Maki, architect of Tower 4 at World Trade Center site

The fourth week of October will feature an actor, a graphic novelist, and a mathematician.

Eric P. Newman is one of the foremost American numismatists of the 20th and 21st centuries. On Oct. 25, Washington University in St. Louis will dedicate a state-of-the-art numismatics facility in his honor. The 3,000-square-foot Newman Money Museum, housed within the new Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, features items drawn from Newman’s renowned collection as well as a numismatics library and workspace for scholars. Displays survey the history of coins and paper money from their beginnings and to the present day, as well as the relationship between money, society, culture and commemoration and related issues such as production, inflation and counterfeiting.