After two years of editing, writing and shooting, the IU Art Museum has compiled a “masterwork” of pieces from its galleries into a book, due for release later this month.
The John Waldron Arts Center auditorium rang with laughter last Thursday, Friday and Saturday as Awkward Silence Comedy created four brand-new, on-the-spot musicals for crowds of 60 to 100 people.
The sold-out crowd at the IU Auditorium alternated between laughter, silence and thunderous applause Friday night as Garrison Keillor and company showed that after 32 years, his radio variety show, “A Prairie Home Companion,” is still going strong. PODCAST: Hoosier Headlines
For two nights at the Whittenberger Auditorium in the Indiana Memorial Union, a large ensemble of women opened not only their hearts, but the hearts and minds of an audience packed to capacity. Eve Ensler’s witty and powerful story, “The Vagina Monologues,” closed Friday at IU.
“Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where the women are strong, the men are good-looking and the children are above average.” Now in its 32nd year on the radio, Garrison Keillor’s matchless program, “A Prairie Home Companion,” will bring the fictitious small town of Lake Wobegon, Minn., to the IU Auditorium at 5:45 p.m.
The IU chapter of One Here...One There will host its first annual silent art auction and art benefit today at Upland Brewery to raise money for children in sub-Saharan Africa.
There is no industry more diverse and more tolerant than the fashion industry. It is tolerant of all different things: skin color, age, gender, religion, country of origin, ideas and sexual orientation.
Photography and DART area shows When: Noon to 4 p.m. Feb. 14 to 16 Where: School of Fine Arts, room 123 Cost: Free More Info: www.indiana.edu/~sofa/
The African American Arts Institute, sponsored by Arts Week, will present “Worlds Collide: Spirit, Soul and Body” in the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center Grand Hall at 6 p.m. Monday . This is just one of the upcoming events commemorating Black History Month with art at IU.
Though many adjectives can be applied to musicals, “improvised” is rarely among them. But IU’s Awkward Silence Comedy troupe will be changing that Thursday through Saturday at the John Waldron Arts Center.
As the country comes closer and closer to the general election, the race to the White House is unfolding like a Charles Dickens plot; each character is playing an extremely important role and adding flavor to the story.
For hungry jazz fans seeking fulfillment, the Jacobs School of Music will host the last of three performances of the Moveable Feast of the Arts Series 7:30 p.m. Saturday at the Ogle Center in New Albany, Ind. at IU Southeast’s campus.
A new institute at IU will allow artists and scholars to collaborate on digital arts and humanities projects, such as digital music libraries and virtual reality programs. Work in the new Institute for the Digital Arts and Humanities will extend to dance, music and even literature.
When she isn’t working on her own limestone sculpture pieces, local artist Amy Brier is spending her time doing commissioned work around Bloomington.
Instead of showing a typical version of “Romeo and Juliet,” where two young people fall deeply in love, the Bloomington Playwrights Project will present a story unafraid to examine imperfect love.
Theatrical set and costume design master Robert O’Hearn retired from the IU faculty following the completion of William Bolcom’s opera “A Wedding” earlier this month.
Raise your hand if this has ever happened to you: You’re on your first date with the guy or girl of your dreams.
Digital artist Margaret Dolinsky’s says her favorite part of her job is “exploring the creative uses of digital technology with students.” Dolinsky a professor in the school of Fine Arts, was recently named the 2008 Outstanding Educator in Science, Engineering and Technology by the organization women and Hi Tech.
IU alumnus Joshua Bell and acclaimed pianist Jeremy Denk performed together Sunday at the Musical Arts Center in a free, completely full show. For those who were unable to get tickets, the Jacobs School of Music streamed a live feed of the performance on its Web site. A native of Bloomington, Bell will join the IU Jacobs School of Music as a senior lecturer in the String Department.
BOLOGNA, Italy – A friend recently asked me to what American figure I would relate Italian politician and corporate mogul Silvio Berlusconi.
