One of the most prized books in the world — the very first collection of William Shakespeare’s plays — is coming to Wisconsin. UW–Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art has announced that First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, a national traveling exhibition, will visit Madison in 2016.
UW professor David Bordwell and the UW Cinematheque invited Pewaukee native and UW alum David Koepp to Madison to screen three of his films, during which he discussed his inspiration and challenges throughout his career.
A survey conducted at University of Wisconsin shows while the number of diverse characters and stories in children’s books increased from 2013-2o14, the overall number of books with diverse content has fallen since 2001.
On Monday, Hetzler and his experimental band Sinister Resonance … will perform at High Noon Saloon. On Wednesday, Hetzler, an associate professor of trombone at UW-Madison, also will lead a benefit concert intended to raise morale and money for Brittany Sperberg, an outstanding university student whose music studies have been sidelined by a severe and yet-to-be diagnosed illness. On Friday and Saturday, Hetzler will be performing in more free concerts, this time with his fellow members of the UW Brass Quintet.
The question hung in the air Wednesday as lights dimmed in the Overture Center’s Promenade Hall on the first night of performances for the ninth annual Line Breaks Festival. The answer presented by performers – students in the UW-Madison’s First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community – evolved over the course of the evening.
The festival takes place from April 9 through April 16 at several UW-Madison locations, including Union South and the UW-Cinematheque, as well as the Capitol Theater and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art.
As Madison reacts to the police-involved shooting of Willy Street resident Tony Robinson over the weekend, audiences will have an opportunity to attend a series of events that feature UW students of color.
There have been rallies, vigils and community meetings in the wake of last week’s shooting death of Tony Robinson in Madison. Now, there will be an organized space for response through song, dance and poetry.
Q&A promoting First Wave Hip Hop and Urban Arts Learning Community
upcoming performance at the Line Breaks Festival.
Offering a frank assessment of American politics, editor-in-chief of Vox.com Ezra Klein said the entire game needs to be changed if any progress is to be made in a system mired in partisan gridlock.
A filled-to-the-brim Shannon Hall in Memorial Union bustled with UW-Madison students and community members waiting to see the blogger, columnist and accidental entrepreneur who journalism professor Michael Wagner described as “nerd-chic.”
Noted: Koepp, a Pewaukee native and UW-Madison graduate, has become the go-to writer for a series of wildly successful blockbusters, including “Jurassic Park,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Spider-Man” and the upcoming adaptation of Dan Brown’s “Inferno” starring Tom Hanks.
With his new project, a University of Wisconsin professor aims to capture the essence of the community through photographing the books it reads.
A first-of-its-kind UW-Madison study has dug deep into the lives of transgender high school students in Wisconsin, finding both hopeful signs and dire circumstances.
Just page through Moda magazine, a rapidly growing student publication that showcases fashion, trends and the arts. This week Moda is going beyond its print and online editions to host “UW Fashion Week” — a series of events meant to get Madison thinking about peeling off the parkas and looking good for spring.
Hundreds of Wausau Badger fans welcome the U-W Madison Varsity Band, as they put on a high-energy show Sunday in the Wausau East High School gym.
This regular guy plays a show tonight in Shannon Hall at UW-Madison’s Memorial Union with countryman Vusi Mahlasela. It’s part of a major U.S. tour called “20 Years of Freedom,” referring to the end of apartheid and the establishment of multi-racial democracy in South Africa in 1994.
An amber lager, created by a trio of UW-Madison students on a pilot brewing system in the Department of Food Science and the Center for Dairy Research, was selected Thursday as the winning brew in a competition to have a beer from the university commercially produced and distributed statewide by Wisconsin Brewing Co. in Verona.
WAUSAU — The University of Wisconsin Varsity Band is bringing its rousing, high-energy show to central Wisconsin on Sunday, and 2014 Stevens Point Area Senior High graduate Caitlyn Emrick, a freshman tuba player with the band, is excited to perform near her hometown.
Actress Jennifer Lawrence will play war photographer and UW alum Lynsey Addario in a film directed by Steven Spielberg, based on Addario’s memoir.
Madison has become a hub for creative entrepreneurs for a variety of reasons, such as a relatively low cost of living compared to big cities; the university, which attracts creative people; and resources for young families. “Artists have always been entrepreneurial in their nature,” agreed Sarah Marty, who teaches an arts entrepreneurship class, launched in 2008, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “It’s very rare that an artist has been able to just exist and someone else takes care of figuring out their audience … who’s going to buy what they’re doing.
Something happened on Friday night, and now everyone at school is talking about it. In the UW-Madison Theatre Department’s production of Good Kids, by Naomi Iizuka, it was not a schoolyard spat or youthful prank. It was rape.
In the words of King Lear, today we learn “who loses and who wins; who’s in, who’s out.”
Dennis Lloyd, deputy director of the University Press of Florida, has been named the new director of the University of Wisconsin Press, located in Madison.
Tejumola Olaniyan founded Africacartoons.com, the first continent-wide digital encyclopaedia of political cartoons by African artists. He talks to African Digital Art about the collection
“Manifestations,” a show featuring the work of 23 Bachelor of Fine Arts students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, spans a variety of styles and subjects.
In a just-released study, UW-Madison researchers found that kids who had participated in the curriculum were less selfish and exhibited better social skills and greater mental flexibility than children who did not do the exercises. And in an added bonus, the kids who did the kindness curriculum earned higher academic marks at the end of the school year.
Working with a former company member, UW dancers staged a section of “D-Man in the Waters” 1989 — the final work on Saturday’s program — in 2013.
Although men and women enter theater graduate programs in equal numbers, only 20% of professional productions nationwide have female writers or directors. In the 2013-14 season, not one new play by a woman was produced on Broadway, even though Annie Baker won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for her off-Broadway play The Flick. Award-winning playwright Theresa Rebeck and others have noted this glass ceiling: In 1908, only 12.8% of the productions on Broadway were written by women. Some 100 years later, the needle has not budged.
Chad Gracia left the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the late 1980s with a degree in Russian and a confidence that he’d be able to use it to get a job with the U.S. government. And then the Berlin Wall fell.
Archival images pair with contemporary photos from the December 2014 “die-in” in two galleries on campus.
To choreographer Bill T. Jones, dance programs like those at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are “the lifeblood of modern dance.”
“Your university was one of the first that gave a degree in dance,” said Jones, who will give a lecture on Thursday in Memorial Union’s Shannon Hall. “Going to the university is a place where there are fresh ears, and they are open and porous.”
Report on panel discussion about the satirical French newspaper.
A team of students from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is conducting research on foxes and coyotes in hopes of learning how the animals and humans can peacefully coexist.
It’s probably safe to assume, however, that Aldo Leopold would be proud to know he helped inspire a free University of Wisconsin online course about the role of hunting in conservation and wildlife management moocs.wisc.edu/mooc/landethic. The four-week class — “The Land Ethic Reclaimed: Perceptive Hunting, Aldo Leopold and Conservation” — is part of UW-Madison’s “Massive Open Online Course” series MOOC.
“Dairy agriculture in Wisconsin is a big deal, and we have landscapes where we can maintain it. We just have to be wise in how we do it,” said Fred Madison, a UW-Madison soil science professor emeritus, who has been aware of groundwater problems in Kewaunee County for 40 years.
UW graduate Chad Gracia’s documentary “The Russian Woodpecker” won a big prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Bell hooks started making waves in scholarship long before “Saved by the Bell” became a television hit. She published Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women in Feminism, one of her best-known books, in 1981, and she’s still publishing today from a base at Berea College. The sitcom aired only from 1989 through 1993 though it also had some spin-offs.
Artists tend to be masters at multitasking and “can’t afford to be ivory tower,” according to flute professor Stephanie Jutt, the moderator of “Arts in Madison: An Economic Engine,” co-sponsored by the Advocacy Consortium for Entrepreneurs and the Arts Institute. Also quoted: Ben Reiser, coordinator of the Wisconsin Film Festival; Paula Panczenko, director of Tandem Press; Kurt Squire, professor of education and vice president of research at the UW Learning Games Network; Christopher Taylor, professor of piano.
Pianists Martha Fischer (professor of collaborative piano) and Bill Lutes want to create a warm, welcoming atmosphere at Friday’s “Schubertiade,” a “house party” celebrating music by the 19th-century Austrian composer Franz Schubert.
UW-Madison’s Babcock Hall is home to the Department of Food Science and the Center for Dairy Research, but a corner space in the building has been transformed into a brewery. The system is designed to teach basic food science principals, train and educate would-be brewers, allow professional brewers to experiment and for academics to conduct research.
In an effort to inspire further dialogue about injustice in America, the selection committee for UW-Madison’s common-reading program is seeking book suggestions that address the theme of inequality.
UW-Madison history professor William P. Jones, who wrote “The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights,” said it is a challenge to try and encapsulate all the nuances of the civil rights movement in a movie that takes place over two weeks. But he was impressed by how accurate it was.
“Woven Gardens of Hope” will showcase the work of Afghan rug makers — and the nonprofit that has empowered them.
Barbata, the UW Interdisciplinary Artist in Residence for Spring 2015, will stage a major parade in downtown Madison on May 2.
The free on-campus film series starts this weekend, including “Citizen Kane” on Saturday night.
Noted: Nominations with Wisconsin ties included Mark Ruffalo, who was nominated for best supporting actor for his performance in “Foxcatcher,” as former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach Dave Schultz; and “The Boxtrolls,” nominated for best animated feature, with West Bend native Curt Enderle as art director.
Madison’s celebration kicks off this month. The University of Wisconsin-Madison Cinematheque will present Welles’ first film, Citizen Kane, in a free screening on Jan. 24.
Noted: Amazon won its first two Golden Globes, both for “Transparent.” The show, created by University of Wisconsin-Madison grad Jill Soloway, won for best TV comedy or musical series and best actor in the same category for Jeffery Tambor, whose résumé includes time on stage with the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
Noted: Ruffalo, a Kenosha native, lost out on the nights first award — best supporting actor — which was won by J.K. Simmons for “Whiplash.” Ruffalo had been nominated for his performance as former University of Wisconsin-Madison wrestling coach Dave Schultz in “Foxcatcher.”
Interview with Prof. Michael Coen and Associate Lecturer Angela Dassow regarding their research on Gibbon language.
A selection of monotypes is on view at the Chazen Museum of Art as part of an exhibit from the Baker-Pisano Collection … To celebrate these unique pieces, UW-Madison graduate Joann Moser, senior curator and specialist on American monotypes at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, will lecture on Jan. 29 in the Chazen auditorium.
The UW-Madison’s School of Human Ecology has decided running two preschools as a teaching and learning laboratory is too expensive, so the 67 children enrolled at its Mineral Point Road site will have to find care elsewhere or move to the remaining facility on campus after this summer.
UW graduate Jill Soloway’s Amazon Prime series “Transparent” won the Golden Globe award for Best Comedy/Musical series on Sunday night.
Conducted by UW-Madison’s Wisconsin HOPE Lab, the analysis also found that being in the program for all four years of high school significantly boosted graduation rates for male students of color.
Mulhern, who primarily covered the University of Wisconsin football team, previously won the award in 2005 and ’10. Mulhern was 56 when he died Oct. 3 from complications due to Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease … It was announced last month that the first recipient of the Tom Mulhern Scholarship for Sports Journalism at the UW School of Journalism and Mass Communication will be named April 10.
Since 2008, the exhibition’s organizers — Nancy Marie Mithlo Chiricahua Apache, chairwoman of American Indian studies at the Autry National Center, and Tom Jones Ho-Chunk, a professor of photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison — have painstakingly restored Mr. Poolaw’s fragile black-and-white negatives and made prints.
The legislation also asks that UW-Madison’s Value-Added Research Center provide the new board a list of alternative tests “acceptable for statistical comparison” with the tests adopted by the superintendent. It also requires the research center to work with the board and DPI to review alternative tests proposed by schools, and asks that it equate the scores between the different tests. Brad Carl, associate director of the center, said while it’s possible to do that, the most accurate way to compare test takers is to have all students taking the same test on the same academic standards.
MIAMI BEACH — Media coverage of debates over the Bible, the origin of life and God can mischaracterize many people by suggesting there are only two sides — creationists and evolutionists. There are at least six different overlapping categories, according to professor Jeff Hardin, an evangelical biophysicist and chair of the zoology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
“Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen” will begin on Feb. 1, less than a year after Wisconsin Public Radio announced it would no longer broadcast the program that had been on since 1978.
