Arts This Week: Hotel Fiction
Sara Bastianelli: For Arts This Week, we chatted with Jess Thompson and Jade Long from Hotel Fiction. You can see Hotel Fiction at the Southern Cafe Music Hall on Friday, September 13th.
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Arts This Week: MaKshya Tolbert and the 2024 New City Arts Fellowship Exhibition, fallow
The New City Arts 2024 Fellowship will present their exhibition fallow on Friday, September 6, at 5pm.
Picasso, Lydia & Friends, Vol. V at Les Yeux du Monde
Les Yeux du Monde proudly presents the fifth installment of an exhibition series orchestrated to honor the memory and scholarship of acclaimed Picasso scholar, beloved former professor of Modern Art at the University of Virginia, and sublime painter, Lydia Csato Gasman.
Arts on the Hill: John D'earth
Arts on the Hill with John D'earth will be held at Carr's Hill, home of President and Mrs. Ryan, on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 from 5:30 - 6:30pm. All UVA faculty, staff, and students are eligible to register to attend. The deadline to register is 11:59 p.m. on Friday, September 13.
"Profiled From Atmospheres": Matthew Burtner Album Release
If someone told you there was music that could lull pillowy-winged moths into a fluttery state of happiness, that the Aurora Borealis can sing even better than you and I, or that the roots of the American elm trees in Central Park are a bustling ensemble waiting for their cue, would you believe them? Matthew Burtner would, and he’d have no trouble proving it on PROFILED FROM ATMOSPHERES, the veteran ecoacoustic composer’s sixth release with Ravello Records
‘She Wrote Plays’ and WTJU Is Streaming Them
In early 2020, University of Virginia associate drama professor Doug Grissom was looking to buy some recording equipment. He had found a set of plays that female playwrights had written nearly 100 years ago, that begged to be adapted as audio dramas. He planned to do it on his own. But then the general manager of UVA’s WTJU radio station, Nathan Moore, reached out asking if he had any podcast ideas. Grissom pitched adapting the plays as audio dramas.
Brunstrom Donation Brings Significant Utopia Artworks to Kluge-Ruhe
Gerald R. (Jerry) and Mary Reid Brunstrom have donated a collection of 33 artworks by Indigenous Australian artists from Utopia to the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. Situated north of Alice Springs in Australia’s Central Desert, Utopia is the name given to the traditional lands of the Anmatyerre and Alyawarre people. The Brunstrom gift substantially increases the museum’s representation of early artworks from this region.
August Exhibitions A Roundup of Monthly Arts Events
“Shifting Ground: Prints by Indigenous Australian Artists from the Basil Hall Editions Workshop Proofs Collection,” curated by Jessyca Hutchens, featuring work by 22 Indigenous Australian artists.
Virginia Theatre Festival's '39 Steps' Shows Off the Humor in Hitchcock
If you’ve ever surprised yourself, or people seated near you, by laughing at a suspenseful moment in a movie, you’re ready for “The 39 Steps” on stage.
Virginia Theatre Festival Closes 50th Anniversary Season with 'The 39 Steps'
The Virginia Theatre Festival is wrapping up its 50th Anniversary season with the two-time-Tony Award-winning show, The 39 Steps.
The Washington Post Named This Alumna One of D.C.’s Funniest Comedians. Learn Why
Jasmine Burton’s animated affect is a natural on stage and her humor is infectious, which caught the eye of a Washington Post reporter.
Q&A: Hip-Hop Professor Traveled an Innovative Path to Tenure
In June, as the University of Virginia sent graduates on their way and ended the academic year, associate professor A.D. Carson concluded his first year as a tenured professor of hip-hop and the Global South.