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Architecture

Explore the 19th-Century Blueprints that Reimagined UVA’s Iconic Rotunda

Fire destroyed the Rotunda, the most iconic feature of the University of Virginia’s Grounds, in October 1895. University officials immediately pushed to rebuild. In 1896, after a false start with McDonald Brothers architects of Louisville, Kentucky, the Board of Visitors hired the prominent New York firm McKim, Mead & White to redesign the historic center of the University. Stanford White, the artistic force of the firm, took the lead in the Rotunda redesign.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/explore-19th-century-blueprints-reimagined-uvas-iconic-rotunda

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Film

Arts This Week: Indie Short Film Festival’s “The Price of Resistance”

You’re listening to WTJU Charlottesville. On Saturday, August 9th at 7:30 pm, Vinegar Hill Theater is showing “The Price of Resistance: Sala Udin, An American Agitator” and “Uprooted,” presented by the Indie Short Film Festival. Both documentaries recount stories of black resistance from the 1960s. For Arts This Week, we spoke to Ty Cooper, a co-producer of The Price of Resistance.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-indie-short-film-festivals-the-price-of-resistance/

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Music

Arts This Week: WXTJ House Show Benefitting Trans Lifeline

My name is Isabel. I am the WXTJ director, which means that I direct the student radio station. I help put on shows. I help put our programming together. I put on other events and stuff like that. And I’m Dana sun, WXTJ director of events and outreach. I help Isabel with putting on shows, running sound, and connecting WXTJ with the UVA student body and the Charlottesville community. WXTJ is UVA’s free form student radio. We do it all, from hosting radio shows to organizing live music events to connecting with UVA music community. WXTJ has always been about diversity and inclusion.

https://www.wtju.net/arts-this-week-wxtj-house-show-benefitting-trans-lifeline/

Close-up photo of Dr. A.D. Carson wearing a black baseball hat, standing in front of a bookshelf.
Creative Writing

Award-Winning UVA Professor of Hip-Hop, Dr. A.D. Carson, Announces New Book Being Dope Available for Preorder

Dr. A.D. Carson, award-winning rapper, performance artist, and Associate Professor of Hip-Hop at the University of Virginia, announces that his forthcoming book, Being Dope, is officially available for preorder from Oxford University Press, with a global publication date set for November 19, 2025.

https://mailchi.mp/82e254a146f0/uva-professor-who-earned-phd-with-rap-album-signs-with-manifest-greatness-media-available-to-speak-on-diddy-verdict-14640274?e=3db39914b7

A lounge in the Architecture school has cement floors, various tables and chairs, a modern glass wall, and tall windows to let in ample sunlight.
Architecture

What’s in a Name? For UVA’s Architecture School, It’s Ethics, Aesthetics and Relationships

The lobby at the north entrance of University of Virginia School of Architecture’s Campbell Hall, where faculty, staff and students often meet, now has a name. School officials will soon christen the space the Van Lengen Lobby to honor Karen Van Lengen, the William Kenan Professor of Architecture and the school’s dean from 1999 to 2009. Van Lengen is stepping down from the faculty after 26 years at the school to continue leading her design practice and focusing on her groundbreaking work in sound and architecture.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/whats-name-uvas-architecture-school-its-ethics-aesthetics-and-relationships

Singers are shown standing in a church and performing, while members of an orchestra play instruments in front of them. The conductor is standing on an elevated platform.
Music

UVA University Singers Return from International Concert Tour to the Baltics

The UVA University Singers, the University of Virginia’s flagship choral ensemble, and faculty conductor Michael Slon recently returned from an extraordinary concert tour to the Baltics, extending UVA’s cultural reach to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Performing in five cities, the Singers had a chance to interact with distinguished musicians including composer Ēriks Ešenvalds, and members of the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and National Opera Orchestra.

https://music.virginia.edu/uva-university-singers-return-international-concert-tour-baltics

Two models are posed next to each other, leaning slightly down with their arms outstretched in a "broken doll" manner.
Visual Art

V Mag Spring 2025 Issue

All good things must come to an end, or so we’ve been told. As we close out on our last semester with V Mag, we couldn’t be prouder of our final print issue. We’ll leave the lights on for you, Domenick Fini and Merrill Hart

https://www.vmagatuva.com/spring-2025-issue

A black and white close-up image of a man, but his face is obscured by violent black and white brush strokes.
Creative Writing

9 Illuminating Memoirs by UVA Alumni

In his newest book, UVA religious studies professor Charles Marsh explores the ways in which his Christian upbringing affected his mental health. For years he suffered from panic attacks and depression, but “we did not do therapy—my family, my particular evangelical coterie,” he writes. With vulnerability and humor, Marsh explains how he finally sought mental health treatment.

https://uvamagazine.org/articles/9_illuminating_memoirs_by_uva_alumni

The Cville Band sitting at their music stands is shown in the background, and the words "Cville Band: Summer at the Paramount" are in white letters in the center.
Music

Cville Band Presents: Summer at The Paramount

Our 103rd Summer Season continues at The Paramount Theater, with new pieces and old favorites. Guest artists for this show include Robert Graham, playing “Reflective Mood,” violinist Michelle Younger, playing Julia Delaney’s “Reel and The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” and Band assistant director Burton Hable. Our Instrument Petting Zoo will be operating at the foot of the stage before the performance, so families with younger children can see and touch some of the instruments in the Band.

https://theparamount.net/event/cville-band-summer-25-2/

Bruce Holsinger leans against a white wall with his arms crossed, wearing a dark gray collared shirt, smiling at the camera. A hallway in Shannon Library is seen in the background.
Creative Writing

Q&A: Why Did Oprah Call This UVA professor?

When he picked up the phone, University of Virginia English professor and author Bruce Holsinger expected to hear his publicist’s voice. Instead, he heard the instantly recognizable voice of Oprah Winfrey. “Your publicist is not calling you. She set you up, Bruce. I’m calling about ‘Culpability,’ and I want to choose it as my summer read for 2025,” Winfrey said in their phone conversation she recorded and posted to Instagram.

https://news.virginia.edu/content/qa-why-did-oprah-call-uva-professor

A close-up photo of a hand using a small paintbrush to paint a dotted design on a paper, using red, white, blue, and black.
Art History

In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project

In the Beginning: Paintings by Senior Artists of the Spinifex Arts Project presents the work of internationally renowned artists from the Spinifex Arts Project, a collective of Pitjantjatjara men and women in Tjuntjuntjara, 800 miles east of Perth in the Great Victoria Desert, Western Australia. Spinifex Arts Project began in 1997 when the artists realized that painting would be an instrumental tool in lobbying the Western Australian government to recognize their ongoing connection to their sacred Country so they could return to their homelands.

https://kluge-ruhe.org/all-exhibitions/in-the-beginning-paintings-by-senior-artists-of-the-spinifex-arts-project/

Orange letters with the title of the exhibition are in the center of the image, and the border is filled with small pictures of the individual artists.
Art History

"Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales" Opens August 29th

Ayuujk (Mixe), Nahua, Maya-Ch’ol, Ñuu Savi (Mixtec), Otomí, Maya-Kaqchikel, P’urhépecha, Diidxazà, Maya-Tsotsil, Zapotec, and Sarhua are but a few of the ancestral lineages that collide in Fuego Eterno: Soberanías Visuales. This project brings together the knowledge and aesthetic achievements of individuals Whose ancestral lineage predates Spanish colonialism and who center millennia of inherited epistemologies within their contemporary practices.

https://www.curatorlove.com/uvafesv