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Emily Kam Kngwarray, Untitled, 1989, acrylic on canvas board, 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm). Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection. Gift of Gerald and Mary Bruntrom, 2024.
Visual Art

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 9, 2024
A pattern made up of yellow and brown shapes with four points and a pink-red dot in the middle of each.
Visual Art

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.

https://www.c-ville.com/august-exhibitions

Woodrow Proctor as Richard Hannay embraces Mollie Downes as Annabella Schmidt. They look into the distance under a prop streetlight and stage lights.
Drama

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.

https://dailyprogress.com/life-entertainment/local/art-theater/virginia-theatre-festivals-39-steps-shows-off-the-humor-in-hitchcock/article_4c443a50-490f-11ef-9428-cb127eb8dc7e.html

Professor A.D. Carson wears a baseball cap and stands in front of a microphone, backed by stage lights.
Music

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.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-hip-hop-professor-traveled-innovative-path-tenure

A person lays in the sun with an open book on a colorful hammock.
Creative Writing

Quiz: What Kind of Reader Are You?

Our friends over at the University of Virginia Library have offered their own reading recommendations with every quiz result.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/quiz-what-kind-reader-are-you

A photo of author and retired Judge Martin Clark in a suit and tie next to the cover of his recent book, "The Plinko Bounce." The cover shows a man on the ground with his back to the camera and his hand up, surrounded by red and white dots.
Creative Writing

From Judge to Bestselling Author, With Help From Tom Wolfe and Rita Mae Brown

For retired Virginia Circuit Court Judge Martin Clark, a 1984 graduate of the University of Virginia’s School of Law, law was a fallback career, a parent-pleasing choice he made after he found nobody wanted to hire him to teach creative writing.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/judge-bestselling-author-help-tom-wolfe-and-rita-mae-brown

A black-and-white photo of Edgar Allan Poe is superimposed over a photo of a man with a camera filming into a room on the Range at UVA. The building is brick on the outside and has green shutters.
Film

A German Film Crew ‘Encountered Poe’s Shadow’ on Grounds

Earlier this month, a University of Virginia Communications photographer ran into a small film crew from Germany on Grounds, where they were working on a documentary about Edgar Allan Poe.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/news-brief-german-film-crew-encountered-poes-shadow-grounds