When history Associate Professor David Shneer began research for an upcoming book — Through Soviet Jewish Eyes: Photography, War and the Holocaust — he found that large collections of Soviet photographs had made their way to the U.S. Some were works by the most well-known 20th century Soviet Jewish photographers, including […]
Demonstrating that there is more to themselves than classes and work, DU women present art in the new exhibit “The Multiple Identities and Experiences of DU Women.” Paintings, drawings, photographs and quilts are just a few of the pieces on display in the Driscoll Gallery this month. Students, faculty and […]
The “Juried Student/Alumni Exhibition” opens Jan. 10 at DU’s Myhren Gallery, featuring works by School of Art and Art History students and alumni. The show’s theme is contemporary approaches to art making. Robert Gratiot (MFA ’73) likes the challenge of painting multiple plains of space. For example, inMax’ims, his painting of a […]
As visitors step into the Nuche exhibit at the DUMuseum of Anthropology, they get a sense of the people who have lived in Colorado for at least 1,000 years. The Ute Mountain Tribe, or Nuche as they call themselves, inhabit southwestern Colorado along with the Southern Utes. “Citizens of Colorado […]
Fourth grade Ricks Center student Chloe Nosan didn’t need snow this year. She’s playing Susan Waverly in the production of White Christmas at theDenver Center for Performing Arts through Dec. 30. Nosan, 9, has been acting since she was 5. She’s been in two productions at the Aurora Fox Arts Center. “It’s […]
An unconventional cast will take the stage at the University of Denver Little Theater in an upcoming production of A Christmas Carol. Every actor will be under 18 years of age. The 24 cast members, who range in age from 6 to 18, auditioned and were selected by Director Anthony Hubert, […]
You don’t have to go far to find entertainment this holiday season. DU has the following events to offer: Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble: Granny Dances to a Holiday Drum When: Dec. 8, 9, 15, 16, 21, 22 and 23 at 2 p.m. Dec. 8, 15, 21 and 22 at 7:30 […]
Mozart — through the music of Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr — is coming to Denver. Manze, a violinist, and Egarr, playing the fortepiano, will re-create an evening of Mozart and Schubert as it would have been heard in a 19th century home. They will perform Nov. 9 at Gates […]
This week — Kathak — one of the six major classical dances of India, is being presented at DU. Dancers Pandit Das and Jason Smith are in Denver for a week-long residency, which culminates with a free performance in Gates Hall at the Newman Center on Oct. 12 from 2:30–3:30 p.m. […]
They’re tired, virtually homeless and living their dream. It’s been a good year for the five members of the Kinetix, a funk/rock band that sprang from DU’s Lamont School of Music. As their passion for beat and melody led them from small towns to DU, it’s taken them back out […]
Modern dance company Diavolo will kick off the Newman Center Presentsseries Sept. 28 with “Foreign Bodies,” a performance commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Newman Center. “Foreign Bodies” made its world premiere at the Hollywood Bowl Sept. 4. Artistic Director Jacques Heim, who founded the Diavolo Dance Theater […]
Piles of plastic figurines, dozens of wood plates and even toothpicks will be turned into art when the University of Denver’s faculty display their work at theMyhren Gallery beginning Sept. 27. Myhren Gallery Director Dan Jacobs asked DU faculty members to share their most exciting work. “We want the wider […]
Unlike some public art projects, the Big Blue Bear outside the Denver Convention Center has captured the attention of most everyone who has encountered the 40-foot statue. DU alumni will have the opportunity to hear from the artist at the University’s inaugural alumni symposium Oct. 5–6. Lawrence Argent, a DU […]
Perched on a second-hand construction scaffold 20 feet above the stage in the Little Theatre in Margery Reed Hall are two DU seniors having the time of their lives. One sits on a thick pillow, legs dangling. Both are hunched over, staring intently at the proscenium arch, a brick and […]
Albert Einstein spent much of the winter of 1943–44 at his Princeton, N.J., home among friends— philosopher Bertrand Russell, logician Kurt Gödel and Wolfgang Pauli, one of the founders quantum mechanics — while discussing their respective work and the urgency of the scientific world developing around them. In 112 Mercer Street […]