March Madness has less luck than you might think
This month marks the culmination of the college basketball season, when 68 teams vie to become national champion in the annual March Madness tournament. It must take a lot of luck to come out on top, right? Not as much as you might think, says a sociologist at Washington University in St. Louis.
Klein examines ‘Matisse and Water’
John Klein, a professor of art history and archaeology in Arts & Sciences, contributed one of three principal essays to “Matisse and the Sea.”
Lina Bo Bardi
Architecture comme action collective
The National Art History Institute in Paris has published Lina Bo Bardi: Architecture comme action collective [Architecture as collective action] by Zeuler R. Lima, associate professor in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis. The book proposes to understand the dialogue Lina Bo Bardi’s visionary and critical […]
Matisse and the Sea
Matisse and the Sea examines the influence of the sea across modernist artist Henri Matisse’s career, which included painting in coastal locations on the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Tafelmusik and ‘Passions Revealed’
Tafelmusik, “one of the world’s top Baroque orchestras” (Gramophone magazine), and “perpetually fabulous” (Boston Globe) violinist Aisslinn Nosky, will present “Passions Revealed,” a program exploring Baroque music’s potential to stir the soul, March 3 as part of the Great Artists Series at Washington University in St. Louis.
Embracing the Bard
The Performing Arts Department in Arts & Sciences will present William Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” in Edison Theatre Feb. 23 to March 3.
‘The night sky and the asphalt road’
Kahlil Robert Irving (MFA ’17) will present “Archaeology of the Present,” a 2,000-square-foot installation exploring our relationship to the city street, at Washington University’s Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum beginning Feb. 23.
Student artists can apply for Art of Democracy residency
Undergraduate student artists of any kind are welcome to apply for the Atkin Residency in the Art of Democracy. The application deadline is March 7.
Radical Atlas of Ferguson, USA
Ferguson, Missouri, became the epicenter of America’s racial tensions after the 2014 murder of Michael Brown and the protests that followed in its wake. Though this suburb just outside St. Louis might have seemed like an average midwestern town, the activism that exploded there after Brown’s killing laid bare how longstanding municipal planning policies had […]
‘Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to Mexico City’s Air’
“Santiago Sierra: 52 Canvases Exposed to the Mexico City Air” will open Feb. 23 at the Kemper Art Museum. The installation highlights the contaminants — the ozone, carbon monoxide, and sulfur and nitrogen oxides — that can slowly but surely poison urban environments.
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