Arts & Culture

Horacio Coppola and Grete Stern are pivotal figures in the art of 20th century Argentina. Beginning Sept. 9, the WashU Kemper Art Museum will explore their legacy as part of “Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950,” the first U.S. exhibition to examine how local, exile and immigrant artists adopted and transformed the aesthetics of international modernism.

More than a dozen nationally and internationally known artists, architects, designers and scholars will discuss their work as part of the Sam Fox School’s fall Public Lecture Series.

Joanna Dee Das, an associate professor of performing arts in WashU Arts & Sciences, has won the 2026 Book Award from the International Society for the Study of Musicals.

WashU architecture student Huda Abdesumad, a Pershing Fellow at Great Rivers Greenway, says the experience has allowed her to bridge her local roots with her career aspirations.

Now married 21 years, Danielle Dutton and Martin Riker are a literary power couple. Both serve in the English Department in WashU Arts & Sciences and run Dorothy, a publishing project, a small feminist press they founded in 2009. They also are writers themselves.

In honor of National Book Lover’s Day, celebrated annually on Aug. 9, the Record asked librarians to share some of their favorite titles. The result: a tour de force by a WashU alumna, a sweeping epic of German history and one of the globe’s most beloved fantasy novels. All of these titles are available at Olin Library.

Meredith Malone was installed as the Nancy and Kenneth Kranzberg Curator at the WashU Kemper Art Museum May 18. The endowed position is the museum’s first named curatorship.