As she walks the streets of New York City on a “really pretty” afternoon, Toby Lightman talks about pushing herself.
Category: Arts & Humanities
Paris Texas talks to Paris, Texas (The Paris News)
Paris Texas (without a comma) lead guitarist Nick Zinkgraf says the group started playing together four years ago at the University of Wisconsin in Madison while doing what all great college rock bands do ââ?¬â? party.
Elvehjem ‘nets’ work by Xu Bing
Xu Bing, the 49-year-old Chinese-born artist who fled into exile and now lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., is one of the art world’s hot names right now. And to think he got his start a decade ago at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum. He will have a major show opening here in September. (See 7/30/04 Capital Times print edition)
Broom Street’s Seiler saga
The new play opening Friday at Broom Street Theater is called “Audrey Seiler, Where Are You?” But writer John Sable and director Dana Pellebon are actually not that interested in where the UW-Madison college student went for four days when she faked her abduction last March.
New book gives artist Lowe his due
Capital Times
The new book “Woodland Reflections: The Art of Truman Lowe” serves a very important cultural function. At a time when the renewed culture wars tend to undercut the accomplishments of non-white artists, Jo Ortel’s impressive monograph provides major critical documentation of this American Indian sculptor’s accomplishments.
High-tech companies value the allure of the arts
Wisconsin State Journal
When Mark Bugher, director of University Research Park, sat down recently to woo a still unnamed biotech company, the former state Department of Revenue head didn’t talk taxes. Bugher said members of the Charlottesville, Va., firm, which specializes in manipulating biological cells, were more interested in hearing about local cultural offerings like the soon-to-open Overture Center.
Early Music has Venetian air
Capital Times
“Basically, we’ve been living in 17th century Venice all week,” artistic director and University of Wisconsin baritone Paul Rowe said just before the faculty and participants of the Madison Early Music Festival played their final notes in Saturday’s All-Festival Concert.
And despite the stark white walls and geometri
Raising consciousness with poetry
Capital Times
When Jim Ferris was a doctoral student, he directed a theatrical production in which each cast member had a disability. All but one of the performers used a wheelchair, so that put a woman who could walk in the minority. “Where do I fit?” she asked. It is a fundamental question for people who live with a disability, says Ferris, a poet who also teaches at the University of Wisconsin and has succeeded in making disability studies an interdisciplinary program there.
Capital Times photo: New academy fellows
Among the five fellows inducted into the Wisconsin Academy of Science, Arts and Letters during ceremonies Sunday, July 11, at Monona Terrace were: Michael Fiore, who has pioneered smoking cessation at UW Hospital & Clinics; UW Professor Richard Davidson, who has pioneered Eastern spiritual practices in physical and mental health; and UW Professor Richard Davis, nationally acclaimed jazz bassist. Other inductees were Ellen Kort, Wisconsin’s poet laureate, and Tom Uttech, a renowned landscape painter who taught art for 30 years at UW-Milwaukee. (Caption only)
Review: Blood Done Sign My Name (NY Newsday)
Socrates said an unexamined life is not worth living. What the philosopher failed to point out, however, is that the results of that examination typically fascinate only those immediately involved. For the rest of us, the examiner’s Sturm und Drang revelations can read like a protracted navel gaze.
Arts groups to mull Overture Center effects (Capital Times)
Capital Times
Several local performing arts groups and presenters (including the Wisconsin Union Theater) will meet Monday night to find ways they hope will help them from drowning in the tidal wave of publicity generated by the new Overture Center.
Madison Early Music Festival turns 5
Capital Times
The annual Madison Early Music Festival, which will begin Saturday, has reached a turning point. UW-Madison baritone Paul Rowe, co-director of the festival, says “This is the first year we feel we’re not making wholesale changes.”
Films & fun
Capital Times
Hey, it’s summer. And, just as you might catch your European classics professor wearing flip-flops to class, the UW-Cinematheque film series is loosening up a little.
ââ?¬Å?Teddyââ?¬â?¢s TV Troubles,ââ?¬Â by Joanne Cantor
Green Bay Press-Gazette
Book review. Joanne Cantor, a nationally recognized authority on the media and children and professor emerita of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
UW Music Clinic is a summer tradition
Wisconsin State Journal
About 900 middle- and high-school students are not only taking band, orchestra, jazz ensemble and choir at the UW-Madison Summer Music Clinic, they’re taking special classes on dance, John Philip Sousa, famous jazz musicians and humor in music
Features: A music camp of great note
Capital Times
The UW Summer Music Clinic, a two-week summer program for junior high and high school students, is celebrating its 75th year of teaching everything from “Jazz Ensemble” to “Latin Ballroom” and “Humor in Music” this month.
Elvehjem’s new Old Master
Capital Times
Through July 11, a newly purchased drawing is on show at the University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave.
University Presses Facing Hardships
The university publishing industry has long struggled to survive financially, but the announced closings of two small academic presses this year reflect increased pressures just as publishers had begun to benefit from an improved economy.
UW Press has winner with ‘Nowhere in Africa’
Capital Times
Nationally, university presses may be in trouble, but the University of Wisconsin Press needn’t worry too much. The editors at the Madison-based publisher consistently make smart choices – the kinds of choices that are necessary in an increasingly competitive publishing industry.
Layton gift finds way to Madison museum
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The University of Wisconsin’s Elvehjem Museum of Art, 800 University Ave., Madison, is benefiting, by proxy, from Frederick Layton’s big heart and eye for quality
“Audrey Seiler, Where Are You ?”
WKOW-TV 27
U-W student Audrey Seiler put the national spotlight on Madison when she faked her own kidnapping. Now, some local artists are putting the spotlight on Audrey Seiler and her story… literally
CitiArts Commission wants to study what local arts groups need
Wisconsin State Journal
Quoted: Marureen Janson, a part-time instructor at UW-Madison.
‘Fahrenheit’ to heat up 2 theaters here Friday
Capital Times
Quoted: Cynthia Laitman, who works at the University of Wisconsin Medical School
Review: Blood Done Sign My Name
Africana
An assistant professor of Afro-American Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Tyson lived four years in Oxford. Tyson, 44, is a white academic who hasn�t given up the two defining Southern obsessions: knowing your kinfolk and knowing how to tell a story.