What: Turtle-shell Rattle, by Lillian Lossiah, Cherokee, North Carolina
IU Soul Revue WHEN: 8 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Buskirk-Chumley Theater, 114 E. Kirkwood Ave. MORE INFORMATION: The IU Soul Revue of IU’s African American Arts Institute will present its annual spring concert Saturday. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10
PARIS – If you were looking for the skeleton of a prehistoric mammoth, Monday was your day to buy.
Staring resolutely at the camera with bangs covering one eye, a pretty, dark-skinned woman with a stoic expression is posed on the couch. Next to this photograph are the words “I do like things about myself but they seem to be trivial, like my wrists and collarbone.”
Local Art Action Incorporated, under the leadership of Jen Eberbach, who also works in public relations for the Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, is working to better the lives of orphans at one orphanage in the Republic of Congo.
Just weeks after performing the ballet “Cinderella” to nearly sold-out audiences at the Musical Arts Center, the IU Ballet Theater is back with a quieter, more off-the-radar show that is sure to be as pleasing.
The new Starbucks in the Indiana Memorial Union has brought more students to a part of the building that has usually been quiet. Graduate student Luke Hankins was sitting in that part of the building when he was inspired to write a poem he named after the university motto, “Lux Et Veritas”.
In the next few days, two members of the IU Jacobs School of Music faculty will retire and bid farewell to the school that has been their home for over three decades. Jan Harrington, currently chair of the choral department, and Mary Goetze, professor of music in general studies, took some time to reflect on their years in Bloomington.
Lately, the art world has produced works of a very unusual juxtaposition, one that earns the word by mixing familiar childhood images, such as teddy bears, dolls and happy little homes, with completely disturbing themes, such as blood, drowned corpses, slabs of meat and the decapitated head of Abraham Lincoln.
The provocative and unusual production “Nine” opened Friday night at the Ruth N. Halls Theatre. A mixed bag of stupendous and so-so performances, “Nine” fell short of my expectations but still delivered an engaging and entertaining show.
In November 1969, former Vice-President Hubert Humphrey penned a letter to U.S. Sen. Birch Bayh, an Indiana Democrat, praising Bayh’s leadership role in the hearings of Supreme Court nominee Clement Haynsworth.
Candy-colored corsets and funky patterns ruled the runway at this year’s Apparel Merchandising Organization annual fashion show.
Flash back to a scene of me in the shower of my excessively peach-colored bathroom in the fifth grade, singing to my loofah and wishing for the mysterious presence of a talent scout outside the door.
Whitney first tried to break into the modeling world in her hometown of West Palm Beach, Fla. She explained that the agents were looking for stick thin Brazilian girls, so the plus-size black girl just didn’t stand a chance. She auditioned for cycle seven of America’s Next Top Model, giving up her position on the Dartmouth women’s basketball team. She didn’t make the seventh cycle, but was called back for the eighth. She landed a spot on the show, and abandoned her studies at Dartmouth. She has since returned and will graduate with a degree in sociology in June.
The work of Kalidou Sy, a Senegalese painter and former Bloomington resident, is on display until May 20 in the IU Art Museum’s first-floor Special Exhibitions Gallery. Sy’s work was the subject of a lecture by Joanna Grabski, assistant professor at Ohio’s Denison University, Wednesday night in Woodburn Hall. Sy moved to Bloomington in 1997 to marry Eileen Julien, the chairperson of IU’s Department of Comparative Literature. He remained in town, except for a two-year stint in Maryland and annual trips to Senegal, until his death in 2005.
Performers, vendors and re-enactors will party like its 1499 during the annual Bloomington Renaissance Faire, which will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at Dunn Meadow. The free event celebrates the Renaissance era, which spanned the 14th through 17th centuries, and was a defining period for artistic, intellectual and social development in Europe. The following is a list of five of the most influential people of the period. Use them as inspiration for your own Renaissance-style costume.
NEW YORK – When Joshua Bell was a teenager in Indiana, he got a call from Avery Fisher himself telling him he had won an Avery Fisher Career Grant, which helps selected young American classical musicians embark on a career.
Young artists will be rewarded for their contributions and efforts this Sunday at the John Waldron Arts Center. The Bloomington chapter of the National Society of Arts and Letters will host its 41st competition this Sunday with a showcase of 12 of the most talented young artists around Indiana.
TINTAGEL, England – Storms and gusting winds have chiseled away at this corner of southwestern England for centuries, but the legends that inhabit the area still loom large. The rocky headland near the village of Tintagel has become so entwined with the legend of King Arthur that its true history seems almost incidental, despite a collection of rough stone foundations and listing walls that hint at its rich past. According to various poems, stories and popular myths, it was here, at the fortress of a Cornish duke, that King Arthur was conceived. Later versions of the story say Arthur was born at the site and may have lived here for a time.
