Art review of the exhibition "Max Beckmann: Self-Portrait With Horn" at New York's Neue Galerie. In 1947 Beckmann moved to the United States, where he took a teaching position at WUSTL. He also taught at the art school of the Brooklyn Museum.

References:

1. Aug. 8, 2008 — The Mythic Imagination of Beckmann in Exile in the The New York Times

Ronald Leax, WUSTL professor of art, received a CAA award as part of their eleven Awards for Distinction for 2008. These annual awards honor outstanding member achievements and reaffirm CAA's mission to encourage the highest standards of scholarship, practice, and teaching in the arts.

References:

1. Jan. 7, 2008 — Winners of the 2008 Awards for Distinction Announced in the ArtDaily.org

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.

References:

1. Jan. 1, 2007 — Maki Designs Art Complex in St. Louis in the Art in America
2. Jan. 8, 2007 — Reality Bites: Making Avant-garde Art in Post-Wall Germany in the Dexigner.com

and 2 others.

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.

References:

1. April 18, 2005 — An ancient masterpiece or a master's forgery? in the The New York Times

and 1 others.

WUSTL's and SLU's graduate schools were among the top 50 on U.S. News and World Report's 2005 list of best graduate schools nationwide.
WUSTL medical school was ranked No. 3 nationwide for research after Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University. Washington U. has been in the top 10 since the rankings began in 1987.
Washington U.'s business school ranked No. 32; law school ranked No. 24; social work and physical therapy programs ranked No. 2 and occupational therapy programs No. 3 in the health category; engineering ranked No. 34; and education ranked No. 40.
(Includes links to U.S. News & World Report: Complete Guide to Medical Schools and Top Medical Schools - Research.)

References:

1. April 1, 2005 — Magazine ranks Hopkins medical research No. 2 in the Baltimore Sun

and 5 others.

Obituary for Clark Battle Fitz-Gerald, a sculptor who produced public commissions for several American cities, churches and universities. He taught at several schools, including WUSTL. In 1956, he gave up teaching and moved to Castine to be a sculptor.

References:

1. Nov. 1, 2004 — Clark B. Fitz-Gerald, 87, Sculptor in the New York Times

Fred Becker, a well-known artist and printmaker who taught at WUSTL for 20 years, died June 30. He established the printmaking department in the School of Art.

References:

1. July 12, 2004 — Fred Becker, 90, artist, printmaker and professor in the The New York Times

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.

References:

1. April 16, 2004 — In St. Louis, Healing the Scars of Violence with Art in the National Public Radio's "All Things Considered"

and 42 others.