Stories indexed under: Art

Total: 5

  • 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.