Stories indexed under: Art

Total: 6

  • Large, culturally significant textile collection unpacked June 6, 2013 Yes, all kinds of works of art are being unpacked as part of the more than 13,000-piece Helen Louise Allen Textile Collection. The collection had been housed off campus for four years while work was being completed on the new Nancy Nicholas Hall in the School of Human Ecology Building.
  • Sale to help kick off Tandem Press’ move to on-campus facility April 24, 2013 Rumors of Tandem Press being forced from its longtime home on the near east side of Madison are nothing new.
  • Biennial neon exhibition lights up the night April 16, 2013 Light makes art possible: the interplay of shadow and saturation, a dull matte finish or a brilliant glow from inside. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the country's oldest university glass program finds ways to illuminate and refract light in thousands of different ways.
  • Photo: Winning image UW–Madison physicist wins science image challenge Jan. 31, 2013 Close your eyes and picture an ocean reef: vivid violet, cool blue and tropical green intertwining in gentle curves and delicate edges. And that's just the urchin teeth.
  • New 'Encounters' series launches at Discovery with multi-sensory collaboration Nov. 13, 2012 What if you could see music or hear a sculpture? A new series, Discovery Encounters, kicks off at the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery with the debut of a collaborative exhibit created by a musician and local artist exploring that very question.
  • UW Curry mural tells forgotten emancipation story Nov. 1, 2012 With a sweep of his pen, Abraham Lincoln changed the lives of 4 million black Americans when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation that led to the 13th Amendment outlawing slavery in the U.S. But a striking, often-overlooked campus mural by John Steuart Curry tells a part of the story that's often forgotten.