On a campus where botany students go to the art museum to view historic paintings of vegetables, social sciences majors study films with autistic main characters and science students draw cartoon versions of fungi, a campus-wide celebration of the arts is long overdue.
This year, violinist Hilary Hahn, scientist/playwright Carl Djerassi and “The Rocky Horror Show” are all part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison?s Year of the Arts, a Kicked off by Chancellor Biddy Martin and the head of the National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Rocco Landesman (UW ?69) at noon on Thursday, Sept. 16, the Year of the Arts focuses on interdisciplinary connections – dance and literature, film and history, science and theater.