To become a high-browed arts expert, you can take one of the many classes that the IU art history department offers. Or you can just consult this little guide.
On Saturday night the atrium of IU's celebrated Art Museum will be transformed into a medieval French cathedral as the Jacobs School of Music presents 'Fleury,' a 12th-century liturgical, or church, drama. "Fleury," an anonymous manuscript, contains 10 separate dramas that address a variety of biblical stories, such as Christmas, Easter and the conversion of St. Paul.
NEW YORK -- Casino mogul Steve Wynn sued Lloyd's of London Thursday, saying the insurance company failed to act properly on his demand to pay $54 million in lost value for a Picasso that was damaged when Wynn accidentally poked a hole in the canvas with his elbow.
BELLINGHAM, Wash. -- Lori Richardson perused the book shelves, picking up one book for consideration and then another. At first glance, there was little that appeared to tie the widely varying authors and genres together. But a closer inspection revealed shelf tags and signs promoting local book club selections.
A tall, slender woman leans forward and firmly grasps the metal attachment on the canister of a vacuum cleaner with both hands. She places the attachment underneath a small, rectangular table, sucking up whatever dust remains on the gleaming tile floor. This description could conjure up images of a Dirt Devil advertisement if it were not for one element: Besides a pair of high heels and a garter belt to hold up her sheer stockings, the woman is entirely nude.
MEXICO CITY -- Mexican artist Hector Velazquez leaned in close and picked dust from one of his sculptures in a dim alcove of his exposition space. "They attract flies," he said in a disheartened voice.
What do you call a mixture of bananas and mayonnaise in a jar with a mock-up of an actual mayonnaise label? At least three Bloomington residents call it art.
Awkward Silence comedy WHEN: 9 p.m. Thursday WHERE: IMU Frangipani Room MORE INFORMATION: Free improvisational comedy.
ROME -- Italian producer Carlo Ponti, who discovered a teenage Sophia Loren, launched her film career and later married her despite threats of bigamy charges and excommunication, has died in Geneva. He was 94.
A can of Coke and a Papua New Guinean portrait skull share common ground in an exhibit at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures. They are both parts of culture in the exhibit titled "Thoughts, Things and Theories ... What Is Culture?"
The Bloomington Area Arts Council recently unveiled its first exhibit of the new year at the John Waldron Arts Center. The Rosemary Miller Gallery, where the opening reception was held last Friday, features artists Linda Meyer Wright, Daren Pitts Redman and Dixie Ferrer. The Flashlight Gallery will feature the quilts of Linda Cole. The exhibit will run through Jan. 27.
IU doctoral student Stacy Wilson's office is indistinct. Only posters of saxophonists lining the walls and a CD player on a table distinguish it from any of the music practice rooms on campus. After hearing the melodious strains of Wilson's alto saxophone emerge from this room, however, one realizes that this office is not a place of mediocrity -- it's a hub of greatness.
You won't find any tutus or pointe shoes at the IU Contemporary Dance Program's fall concert "Grow/Move/Change," which will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday in the Ruth N. Halls Theatre.
RALEIGH, N.C. -- A North Carolina artist intrigued by the public obsession with celebrity has found herself feeding that obsession with a painting of actress Angelina Jolie as the Virgin Mary hovering over a Wal-Mart checkout line.
WASHINGTON -- The White House honored six cultural institutions Monday for their creativity and public service in what first lady Laura Bush described as one of her favorite events.
In a recent random survey of about 30 students living in Forest Quad, 94 percent were familiar with Vincent van Gogh's 19th-century painting "Starry Night." It has become such an important icon for art that almost everyone has seen it on a poster, in a calendar, or in other random places.
Sophia Bush's latest character, Grace Andrews, learns the danger of picking up strangers in a remake of the 1986 horror film "The Hitcher."
On Christmas Day, people all over the world mourned the death of entertainer James Brown. "The Godfather of Soul" died at 73 of congestive heart failure after being hospitalized with pneumonia in Atlanta. He left behind five decades' worth of soul and funk, and his death occurred just three months after his September performance at the IU Auditorium.
Lately, big-time designers have been whoring themselves out to the mass consumer market. But I mean "whoring" in a respectable way -- think less of the stiletto boot-sporting streetwalker type and more of the Chanel-sporting "lady of the night" type. But everyone knows a ho ain't complete without her pimp. In this case H&M and Target are the backers behind this slutty endeavor. And now they're rolling on 20-inch rims (big pimpin', spending G's).
