Arts & Culture

In 1915, at age 40, Winston Churchill was ousted as First Lord of the Admiralty during Britain’s disastrous Gallipoli campaign. It was a low point for the future prime minister, but recovery began in the most unlikely of places: in the garden, with a box of paints.

Michio Ito is the forgotten pioneer of American modern dance. Yet Ito’s influence will be on full display Dec. 4-6 when “Pavane,” a tribute choreographed by his niece, Taeko Ito, is featured in Washington University Dance Theatre.

Chamber Project STL will present the world premiere of “Chamber Études,” a lighthearted new composition by WashU composer Christopher Stark, Nov. 21 in the 560 Music Center.

Alceste is allergic to flattery, fakery and sycophants. But how much honesty is too much? In “The Misanthrope,” the great French playwright Molière examines the line between diplomacy and deception, between truth-telling and cruelty.

In 1972, Washington University launched one of the nation’s first academic programs in women’s studies. This fall, Arts & Sciences celebrates a new milestone as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies becomes a full department.

James Bond forever sips martinis, forever unaffected by his own life of violence. Yet the unflappable film Bond stands in marked contrast to Ian Fleming’s original novels, writes film scholar Colin Burnett.

Gerhild Scholz Williams explores the vast legal, scientific and theological literature known as demonology, which helped established “the image of the witch as a night-flying, sexually voracious creature.”

In this video, curator Jonathan Ferrara and Sam Fox School dean Carmon Colangelo discuss “Guns in the Hands of Artists.” The exhibition seeks to build a new framework for examining the role of guns in American culture.

In this Q&A, program founders Rebecca Messbarger and Corinna Treitel discuss the new minor in medical humanities, the development of the field and the relationship between the arts and sciences.

Winston Churchill was a dedicated painter. At home, on holiday and even on the battlefield, his oils were rarely far from hand. This fall, the National Churchill Museum and the Kemper Art Museum are presenting one of the most significant shows of Churchill’s work ever in North America.