This year marks the 200th annivesary of the Lewis and Clark expedition. This guide provides story ideas with a modern perspective, ranging from an original Lewis and Clark opera to a new web site showcasing maps reconstucting the expedition's journey.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced today two special grants totaling $4,500,000 in honor of Hanna Holborn Gray, who has just retired as chairman of its Board of Trustees after having served as a Board member for 23 years.
Thelma Golden, Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs at the Studio Museum in Harlem, will accept an Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts from Moore College of Art and Design at its 155th Commencement on Monday, May 19, 10:00am -12:00pm in Philadelphia.
Rhode Island School of Design's Department of Furniture Design invited to showcase student work at the worlds most widely visited furniture show 42nd Annual Salone Internazional del Mobile in Milan, Italy.
1) War continues to ground airlines, but bargains are available, 2) War coverage leaves big questions unanswered, 3) History shows that American psyche is strong
AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center to open with top-notch films. Poised to repeat history, the expanded theatre complex anchors a $400 million project expected to transform Silver Spring, MD into an arts and entertainment destination.
Despite the popular notion that the period between the two world wars was one of marital and family stability, a study of the art and marriages of two of the 20th century's most popular artists indicates it was instead a difficult and unsettling time for many middle-class Americans.
In his book, Kerry Walters argues that Americans live in a culture of fear that prizes security and dreads vulnerability above everything else. This need to feel safe is why many react angrily to pacifists, he says.
The award-winning Moore HoneyHouse has reaped international recognition for renowned University of Arkansas architecture professor Marlon Blackwell. On March 18, Blackwell will present a lecture in London to the Royal Institute of British Architects.
The Boston Architectural Center welcomes theater historian, designer, and consultant Iain Mackintosh of Theatre Projects Consultants, London, as the speaker at the 11th Annual Cascieri Lectureship in the Humanities on Friday, April 25, 2003, at 7:30pm.
The Violet Flame Soundprint public radio documentary wins Gracie Allen award.
A Middle East authority and media commentator believes that even if things go well for the invasion of Iraq, rebuilding will be replete with problems as yet fully considered. And he says authoritarianism, not democracy, is more likely to thrive as a result of the war.
1) Partisan politics play role in nation's rush to war. 2) At Temple teach-ins, students, professors voice dissent about war. 3) While grabbing headlines, abductions like Elizabeth Smart's are rare.
W.E.B. Du Bois' "The Souls of Black Folk," the book that defined how scholars, activists, artists, policy makers and the public at large approach issues surrounding race in America, will celebrate 100 years with an international symposium and a week of related events at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
1) Gas shortages over the next few months could be more the result of government regulations than problems in the Middle East or Venezuela; 2) Not rushing the season is key to spring gardening; 3) Creativity rules at Carver Science Fair.
The Center for Great Lakes Culture at Michigan State University has announced the winners of the third annual Great Lakes Culture Awards.
Unique state-of-the-art complex reatures year-round film programming. Clint Eastwood to be honored at opening event.
Montserrat College of Art will host several visiting artists this winter and spring, some in conjunction with gallery exhibits at the College.
Images of Human Rights: South Africa's Bill of Rights, an exhibit of black and white prints by 27 South African artists, will be on exhibit in the Montserrat College of Art Gallery.
Combining an interest in the classics with expertise in the sedimentary geology that defines coastlines, a University of Delaware researcher has discovered that Homer's "Iliad" presents an accurate account of the geography of ancient Troy, information that may end a centuries long debate.
Following are Gustavus Adolphus College faculty members who are available to speak within their areas of expertise, with journalists to provide additional depth and understanding for future stories.
1) Looking for a job? Ditch the PJs and get networking; 2) Weather plays a role in military maneuvers; 3) War could deal a significant blow to the travel industry.
William Gilmore Simms, one of the first and most prolific writers to portray American Indians in literature shared their fate of disenfranchisement. But a new anthology of his writings may garner some mainstream attention for both.
Reporters seeking sources on Arab life and culture should consider anthropologist Niloofar Haeri, author of a book on the influence of the classical Arabic language.
The AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, running November 6-16, 2003 in Hollywood, California announces today its call for entries.
In times of national crises, governments have used various methods to rally the public. Gail Chisholm is a noted authority on propaganda (and other vintage posters) and has an extensive collection of such posters from World War I to the present.
1) From U.S. foreign policy to duct tape to the stress of renewed terror threats, experts are available to discuss possible war with Iraq. 2) Is Linux closing the Windows on Microsoft? 3) Gas prices could be lower later this year.
A four-year museumwide initiative that put the Walker Art Center's curators and education staff in close contact with colleagues from around the world has resulted in a season of multidisciplinary programming that rethinks how contemporary art and culture are defined and presented in a global context.
1) Duct tape and plastic wrap offer little protection from attack; 2) Americans' stress at highest level since 9/11; 3) After a heralded debut three years ago, scientists are now working outside the public spotlight to refine the human genome sequence.
Most historians paint Andrew Jackson as a national hero, a victorious general and an administrator of the expansion and enrichment of the nation. A researcher at the University of Missouri-Columbia, is writing a biography arguing he is responsible for the largest ethnic cleansing in U.S. history.
The School of Visual Arts' 14th Annual Dusty Film Festival and Awards will feature a documentary about Tibetan youth and how the Chinese occupation has affected them.
The coming primacy of digital photography-in art, industry, and academia-is exemplified by the blockbuster 9/11 photo exhibition, "Here is New York: A Democracy of Photographs."
The School of Visual Arts has just announced the artists for the upcoming exhibition, "Picturing the Times: Eastern European Illustrators at The New York Times."
Three books and a Web site, chosen as 2002's best work related to Lincoln and the Civil War era, were named as winners of Gettysburg College's 13th annual Lincoln and E-Lincoln Prizes.
To coincide with Black History Month, a new book edited by an NC State historian chronicles the experiences of African-American soldiers during the Civil War.
The West Virginia University Press is looking for information on several singers to be featured on the upcoming CD "Work and Pray: historic Negro spirituals and labor songs from West Virginia."
1) College students should plan now for summer internships; 2) Strong mentoring programs market to adults--and kids; 3) Layoffs affect companies' remaining workers, too.
With its new selections for spring, the University of Arkansas Press takes readers from Pine Bluff, Ark., to Egypt, from the modern-day boxing ring to Victorian America, from politics to philosophy to history to poetry and more.
In its second national study of K-12 educational programs offered by the nation¡œs museums, the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services found that the percentage of museums' median annual operating budgets spent on such programming increased four-fold since 1996.
1) The future of work-based educational programs is uncertain. A national conference will explore the future of school-to-work programs. 2) State of the Union marks start of the 2004 presidential campaign. 3) Gas prices won't likely drive Americans to smaller cars.
In selecting the recipients of its coveted literary fellowships for 2003, the National Endowment for the Arts has recognized three writers with University of Arkansas connections -- poetry professor Davis McCombs and alumnae Beth Ann Fennelly and Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright.
Professor Stephen Marschner will share a Technical Achievement Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as co-developer of a method of simulating translucent surfaces which makes the rendering of human skin--or the skin of mythical creatures like Tolkien's Gollum--more realistic.
A University of Missouri-Columbia researcher has found that celebrated writers of the Civil War era, such as Mehlville, Stowe and Poe, attempted to solve the slavery crisis by including the slavery issue in their stories.
Painter Anne Harris will speak on her work in the Montserrat College of Art Gallery, 23 Essex Street, Beverly, on Friday, January 24 at 11:30 a.m.
Daniel Mendelsohn, an author, journalist and professor of classics at Princeton University, is winner of the 2001-02 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.
Maryland Institute College of Art features two companion exhibitions and a new piece of outdoor sculpture as part of Baltimore's Vivat! St. Petersburg celebration.
Written in the 1850s, scholars now believe The Bondwoman's Narrative to be the first novel ever written by a black woman and the only one by a formerly enslaved woman.
Everlasting highlights voices of mothers who surrendered children for adoption installed with Close to Home (2001), which offers insights into the artist's search for her mother.
Staton-Greenberg Gallery presents "Flora," botanical images by acclaimed California photographer Imogen Cunningham.
Staton-Greenberg Gallery is please to present "Bloom", a boquet of images from selected photographers.
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