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Elizabeth Childs
Associate professor of art history
Childs' major interests are French 19th-Century visual culture, art, and politics, exoticism (particularly the work of Paul Gauguin), history of photography, and caricature.
Direct contact: (314) 935-5287
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ecchilds@wustl.edu
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William H. Gass
Distinguished University Professor Emeritus in the Humanities
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Expertise: Literary criticism, writing, philosophy
Media assistance: (314) 935-5235 / nschoenherr@wustl.edu
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William E. Wallace
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History
Wallace is an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo and his contemporaries. In addition to more than forty articles (as well as two works of fiction), he is the author and editor of four books on Michelangelo: Michelangelo at San Lorenzo: The Genius as Entrepreneur (Cambridge 1994); ...
Expertise: Early and High Renaissance Art, Italian Renaissance Architecture, Leonardo, Mannerism, Michelangelo, Old Master drawings, Raphael, …
Media assistance: (314) 935-8494 / liam_otten@wustl.edu
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Richard Chapman
Lecturer in Screenwriting in Arts & Sciences
Chapman is a veteran screenwriter and producer in film and television with particular interest in the ways journalists report on war. He recently co-wrote the Golden Globe-nominated HBO Original Film Live From Baghdad, which told the behind-the-scenes story of CNN's coverage of the early days of the ...
Expertise: CNN, Iraq, Vietnam, film production, screenwriting, television production, war reporting
Direct contact: (314) 935-8238
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rchapman@artsci.wustl.edu
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Patrick Schuchard
E. Desmond Lee Professor for Community Collaboration
Schuchard is a widely exhibited aritst whose current practice weaves elements of painting, sculpture, architecture, public policy and even city planning into remarkably whole cloth. Recent projects range from studio portraiture, book illustrations and public murals to University Lofts, a $5.6 million ...
Expertise: community development, entrepreneurship, murals, painting, portraiture, public art, sculpture
Direct contact: (314) 935-8664
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wpschuch@art.wustl.edu
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Bye Bye Birdie
Put on a happy face
April 1,
2008 --
Josiah Gerdts and Isabelle Chumfong, both first-year students in the School of Medicine, play the leads in "Bye Bye Birdie," the spring musical production by School of Medicine students.
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Poetic justice
Poet Mary Jo Bang wins National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry
March 17,
2008 -- Poet Mary Jo Bang, professor of English and director of The Writing Program, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry.
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March 25 program kicks off humanities series
Carl Phillips and the 'Art of Restlessness'
March 6,
2008 -- Distinguished poet Carl Phillips, professor of English and of African and African American Studies, both in Arts & Sciences at Washington University, will deliver the first of three talks on poetry at 4 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in Umrath Lounge on the Danforth Campus, as part of the Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities (IPH) in Arts & Sciences and WUSTL's Assembly Series.
Based on the theme of "The Art of Restlessness: On Poetry and Making," Phillips' talks are free and open to the public. The March 25th program will focus on "Poetry and Resistance."
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Blonde Ambition: Iconic Blondes Shape History
ABC News -- Good Morning America
Jan. 22,
2008 -- The art exhibit "Beauty and the Blonde: An Exploration of American Art and Popular Culture," is being presented by WUSTL's Kemper Art Museum. It is curated by Catharina Manchanda, and it includes the famous silkscreens of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe and Roy Lichtenstein's pop art images of blondes in comics.
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Maki Designs Art Complex in St. Louis
Art in America, Dexigner.com
and 2 others
Jan. 16,
2007 -- The January issue of Art in America includes a story on architect Fumihiko Maki, who was commissioned by WUSTL in 1960 to design Steinberg Hall as a home for the university's highly regarded art collection. Nine years ago he was selected again to design an entire arts campus, to be called the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts. It opened in October. The article mentions current exhibits organized by museum director Sabine Eckmann, chief curator Lutz Koepnick, and others.
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The Injustice Collector
The New Yorker
July 13,
2006 -- In a June 19 article on the legal battle over intellectual property rights between James Joyce's grandson and various scholars, WUSTL law professor and intellectual property specialist F. Scott Kieff comments.
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The hidden secrets of the creative mind
Time Magazine
Jan. 11,
2006 -- What is creativity? Where does it come from? The workings of the creative mind have been subjected to intense scrutiny over the past 25 years by an army of researchers in psychology, sociology, anthropology and neuroscience. But no one has a better overview of this mysterious mental process than WUSTL psychologist and education professor R. Keith Sawyer, author of the new book Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation.
In a Time interview, Sawyer shares some of his findings and suggests ways in which we can enhance our creativity not just in art, science or business but in everyday life.
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University library's collection tells story of secret codes
Associated Press and St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Aug. 15,
2005 -- The invention of the printing press didn't just make it easier to disseminate information, it made it easier to hide it, too -- as the collection of books in a vault at WUSTL shows. The books, some more than 500 years old, chronicle the history of secret codes -- some concealed so intricately that art professor Ken Botnick regularly shows them to his students. (Link also contains the text of the longer St. Louis Post-Dispatch article on the collection.)
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Hemingway pal A.E. Hotchner recalls his old friend
Associated Press
and 11 others
July 21,
2005 -- Dear Papa, Dear Hotch -- letters between Ernest Hemingway and WUSTL alum A.E. Hotchner -- will be released this fall by U. Missouri Press. Hotchner talks about his friend and his life.
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An ancient masterpiece or a master's forgery?
The New York Times
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April 19,
2005 -- A scholar has suggested that ''Laocoon,'' a fabled sculpture whose unearthing in 1506 has deeply influenced thinking about the ancient Greeks and the nature of the visual arts, may well be a Renaissance forgery -- possibly by Michelangelo himself.
WUSTL art history professor William Wallace comments.
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Unpublished Williams poem found in bookstore
Associated Press
and 115 others
April 15,
2005 -- A previously unpublished poem by Tennessee Williams, described as having been "written out of absolute, complete despair," has been discovered in his blue test booklet from a college course in 1937.
The poem has been acquired by WUSTL, where Williams, as a student in his mid-20s, plummeted into depression before fleeing the city he said he despised.
WUSTL performing arts chair Henry Schvey found the poem and test booklet last March at Faulkner House Books in New Orleans.
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Gerald Early is advisor for new Ken Burns' film on boxer Jack Johnson
Newsday
July 21,
2004 -- Burns was on hand to discuss his new four-hour film about Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion (1908-14), due to premiere on PBS in January. Burns said that time, study and exposure to black scholars such as WUSTL professor Gerald Early, a key consultant on "Baseball," "Jazz" and now "Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson," have given him - and thus his company's films - a more mature understanding of race in America.
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20 years after his death, a Tennessee Williams' work is staged for the first time
The New York Times
April 26,
2004 -- Twenty years after his death, one of Tennessee Williams' plays is seeing the light of a stage for the first time. "Me Vashya," an early play by Williams, will receive its world premiere at Washington University in St. Louis in February. Written in 1937 while Williams was a student here and known as Tom, his birth name, the play has remained in Washington University archives for more than 60 years. It has never been published or performed — until now.
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Mini Medical School open to all walks of life
The New York Times
and 7 others
April 26,
2004 -- A program at the School of Medicine called Mini Medical School gives laypeople, from husbands and wives to lawyers and musicians, an abridged medical education that helps them to interact more effectively with health-care providers. Unlike a regular medical-school course, in which classmates share a basic knowledge of anatomy and cell biology, Mini Medical School mixes people with solid science backgrounds and people whose medical knowledge is limited to their experience on the cold end of the stethoscope.
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Book review - The End of Blackness
The New York Times
April 26,
2004 -- Book review of Debra Dickerson's The End of Blackness by Gerald Early, author and director of WUSTL Center for the Humanities. Early writes: "With the publication of ''The End of Blackness,'' a book not only about white racism but about black people's response to it, Debra J. Dickerson joins a growing and varied class of black public intellectuals that includes people like John McWhorter, Bell Hooks, Michael Eric Dyson, Patricia Williams, Henry Louis Gates, Shelby Steele, Thulani Davis, Stanley Crouch, Greg Tate, Ellis Cose and Brent Staples. Their views are sufficiently different that they might be said to represent distinct factions among African-Americans and, no less relevant, speak to distinct factions of educated whites."
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You're no Isaac Newton
The New York Times
April 25,
2004 -- Derek Hirst, chairman of the department of history in Arts & Sciences, reviews The Curious Life of Robert Hooke, The Man Who Measured London, by Lisa Jardine. Hooke is described as a rival to Newton. His pursuits included studying the planetary orbits, inventing and building scientific instruments, and pioneering work with microscopes.
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Healing the scars of violence with art
National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"
and 42 others
April 16,
2004 --
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| Artist's rendering of Krysztof Wodiczko's The St. Louis Projection. |
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Krzysztof Wodiczko made his reputation 20 years ago taking on big political issues. At the height of the apartheid era, he projected a swastika onto South Africa's embassy in London. In recent years, he's added audio to his multimedia projects and turned from the political to the personal. In 1998, he used audio and video projected onto the Bunker Hill Monument to tell the stories of mothers from Charlestown who'd lost children to murder. When he was invited to mount one of his projections in St. Louis by Washington University, he says he once again wanted to give voice to people who had lost loved ones to violence.
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A New Era
$5 million gift establishes Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum as centerpiece of Maki-designed Sam Fox Arts Center
The first art museum west of the Mississippi River is getting a new name and a new, state-of-the-art building designed by one of the world's premier architects, thanks to a $5 million gift from one of Missouri's most distinguished families.On Wednesday, April 14, Washington University in St. Louis will break ground on the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, formerly the Washington University Gallery of Art. The 65,000-square-foot limestone-clad structure — dedicated in honor of the late Mildred Lane Kemper — is one of two new buildings designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Fumihiko Maki as part of the $56.8 million Sam Fox Arts Center.
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