Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts

The Gateway Arch is an icon of modern architecture and the most-recognized symbol of the City of St. Louis. Yet in many ways the Arch is cut-off from the city proper, sandwiched between the Mississippi Riverfront and a network of converging roadways and interstates. Last month students from five Missouri and Illinois universities gathered to address this challenge as part of the St. Louis Downtown/Riverfront Student Design Charrette.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its “Some Like it Cool” film series Dec. 9-11. Held in conjunction with the exhibition “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Midcentury,” the festival will feature screenings of “Rebel Without a Cause” Tuesday, Dec. 9; “Anatomy […]

United States Jefferson National Expansion MemorialEero Saarinen (1910-1961) was among the most prolific, unorthodox and controversial architects of the 20th century, creator of the monumental St. Louis Gateway Arch as well as sweepingly abstract terminals for New York’s John F. Kennedy International and Washington’s Dulles International airports. In January the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future, the first retrospective to explore the complete career of the acclaimed Finnish American architect.

Rendering of renovated children’s theater.A team of six graduate and undergraduate architecture students — led by graduate teaching assistant Ellen Leuenberger and including Denny Burke, Alexander Harner, Michael Heller, Rachel Kerr and June Kim — has won the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts’ Community Service Competition. The competition, which includes a $300 cash prize, centered on an abandoned 8,000-square-foot children’s theater located on the campus of St. Francis de Sales church, 2653 Ohio Ave. (63118), popularly known as “the Cathedral of South St. Louis.”

Courtesy PhotoThis fall, five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children’s theater located on the campus of a south St. Louis historic church.

The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum will present three classic Hollywood films as part of its Some Like it Cool film series Dec. 9, 10 and 11. Held in conjunction with the exhibition Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury, the festival will feature screenings of Rebel Without a Cause (Dec. 9), Anatomy of a Murder (Dec. 10) and North by Northwest (Dec. 11).

Eric CesalSt. Francis de Sales church, popularly known as “the Cathedral of South St. Louis,” has been a local landmark since the end of the Civil War, listed on the National Registry of Historic Places. This fall five teams of architecture students have worked to create redevelopment plans for an abandoned children’s theater, located on the church’s six-building campus, as part of the Sam Fox School’s Community Service Competition. Winners of the competition will be announced Oct. 17 at a reception in Givens Hall.

The phrase “modern art” has been widely used for more than a century. In that time, it has become so associated with historical movements — from cubism and surrealism to abstract expressionism, pop and conceptual art — that it has ceased to describe the many new and different forms being made today. So argues Terry […]

Art historian Terry Smith will discuss “Contemporary Art and the Contemporaneity Question” at Kemper Monday, Oct. 13.

Terry SmithThe phrase “modern art” has become so associated with historical movements that it has ceased to describe the many new and different forms being made today. So argues Terry Smith, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, who will discuss “Contemporary Art and the Contemporaneity Question” at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum Oct. 13.