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Art History

VQR at 100: New Exhibition Explores Acclaimed Magazine’s Archives

In 2024, Julia Mathas, then an Editorial Assistant at the Virginia Quarterly Review (VQR), was conducting research on the literary magazine’s history in anticipation of its centennial anniversary the following year. While looking for a file on Ezra Pound in the correspondence archives of VQR’s longest-serving editor, Charlotte Kohler, Mathas stumbled upon a folder labelled “Sylvia Plath.” Within it she found a signed 1958 letter from Plath asking the editors to consider three of her poems for publication.

https://library.virginia.edu/news/2025/vqr-100-new-exhibition-explores-acclaimed-magazines-archives?mtm_campaign=em&mtm_kwd=sub

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Music

Fraternity Band Last Call Plans to Make the Most of Their Last Year at the University

From playing parties at their home base of Sigma Nu fraternity to opening for the Neon Trees at John Paul Jones arena, Last Call has been soundtracking University weekends since 2022. The band has found their place in the Charlottesville indie-rock music scene, making a name for themselves by combining unique individual experiences and talents with a collaborative musical process.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/10/fraternity-band-last-call-plans-to-make-the-most-of-their-last-year-at-the-university?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

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Music

Q&A: Will AI Usurp the Desire for Human-Made Music?

Artificial intelligence is everywhere in the music business, whether you recognize it or not. It’s there when you stream – every Spotify recommendation is the product of AI-driven algorithms – and composes music based on its knowledge of previously published works. It’s even breathed new life into long-gone voices of performers like John Lennon.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-will-ai-usurp-desire-human-made-music

A wall in the UVA Ruffin Gallery is painted with a ocean wave-like pattern and has inner-tubes hanging in from of the wall, also painted with a wave pattern.
Visual Art

Q&A: How Does UVA’s ‘Fuego Eterno’ Exhibit Explore Indigenous Sovereignty?

It’s the final few days to catch “Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales (Eternal Fire: Visual Sovereignties),” an art exhibition at the University of Virginia’s Ruffin Hall. The newly launched Global Spanish Initiative has hosted the exhibition showcasing indigenous artwork from across the Americas and beyond. Featuring artists and scholars from Mexico, the U.S., Guatemala, the Philippines and nine other countries, the exhibit wraps up Friday.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-how-does-uvas-fuego-eterno-exhibit-explore-indigenous-sovereignty

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Film

From the Corner to the Red Carpet: This Hoo’s Latest Short Film Wins Award

Of the careers Emily Dhue considered growing up, filmmaker might have been the most practical. “In third grade, I wanted to be a famous actress. I had a brief stint in fifth grade where I wanted to be a dolphin trainer. Then I was lost for a while, and thought, ‘Maybe I’ll do film,’” Dhue said. That thought is paying off. Since graduating from the University of Virginia in 2020, Dhue has started her own production company with her friend Zac Branciforte, Space Fish Productions; made music videos for bands like Not Proud To Be Here; and most recently, won the Best Horror award for her short film, “Bill,” at the HollyShorts Film Festival.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/corner-red-carpet-hoos-latest-short-film-wins-award

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Visual Art

Arts This Week: “Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Life” at Vinegar Hill Theater

You’re listening to WTJU Charlottesville. On Saturday, September 27th at 2pm, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society is showing Georgia O’Keeffe: The Brightness of Life, at Vinegar Hill Theater followed by a panel discussion with the filmmakers and UVAs Beth Turner, who we spoke with for Arts This Week.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-georgia-okeeffe-the-brightness-of-life-at-vinegar-hill-theater/

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Film

Virginia Film Festival Announces 2025 Lineup

The Festival’s Opening Night Film is Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere (20th Century Studios), starring Jeremy Allen White and directed by VAFF Advisory Board member and Virginia native Scott Cooper. The film tells the captivating story behind the making of the worldwide musical and cultural icon’s celebrated album Nebraska at a time when he was battling mental health issues and working to come to terms with his growing fame.

https://virginiafilmfestival.org/2025/09/23/virginia-film-festival-announces-2025-lineup/

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Art History

Learn the “ABCs of the UVA Library” Through Its New Exhibition

“The ABCs of the UVA Library” was also conceived as a way to give Leo S. Lo, the new Dean of Libraries and University Librarian, an overview of the Library’s collections. Lo’s tenure began two days before the exhibition opened. “What an extraordinary welcome gift!” Lo said. “I am deeply impressed by the scope of our collections and, even more, by the creativity and collaboration. The concept is playful and imaginative, the execution is stunning. I am telling everyone about it.”

https://library.virginia.edu/news/2025/learn-abcs-uva-library-through-its-new-exhibition?mtm_campaign=em&mtm_kwd=sub

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Visual Art

Data Artist Nathalie Miebach Joins School as Inaugural Artist-in-Residence

Later this month, the University of Virginia School of Data Science will welcome internationally recognized artist and data storyteller Nathalie Miebach as its inaugural Artist-in-Residence. Miebach, known for transforming scientific weather data into woven sculptures and musical compositions, will be in residence Oct. 20–24, 2025, engaging students, faculty, and the community in a week of workshops, lectures, and presentations, and an exhibition.

https://datascience.virginia.edu/news/data-artist-nathalie-miebach-joins-school-inaugural-artist-residence

Darryl Smith
Drama

The Heart of Live Arts: Darryl’s Next Act

To most of the Live Arts staff and patrons, he’s commonly known as “the heart of Live Arts,” a familiar, welcoming face behind the box office, or behind the concession counter, or sometimes up there on the stage. Darryl Smith has done it all – and he’s got the testimonials to prove it.

https://mailchi.mp/livearts/volunteer-news-6370502?e=c95706b2b5

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Film

The Virginia Film Festival Returns in Full Force This October

As the month of October looms on the horizon, that can only mean one thing for the city of Charlottesville — the Virginia Film Festival is making its return. The 38th annual iteration of one of the eastern seaboard’s most reputable festivals draws cinephiles and industry professionals alike to Charlottesville. From Oct. 22 through Oct. 26, the festival will bring together more than 100 of the year’s best films for an incredible weekend celebrating the cinematic art.

https://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025/09/the-virginia-film-festival-returns-in-full-force-this-october