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Rows of textiles patterned with bright chevron stripes and horses hang in �þ���Ƶ’s Longyear Museum of Anthropology as part of the exhibition Threads of Tradition: Aymara and Quechua Textiles of the Andes.

The SXSW film festival opens today and �þ���Ƶ will be there with a couple of movie premieres by alumni.

A scientist wearing lace wings paces about the stage, while a blue-and-white “bird spirit,” also costumed in lace and feathers, sings her a birdcall. All the while, animations of cellular processes unfold on the dome above their heads. Needless to say, this was not your average science lecture.

Do the French hold the secret to proper child rearing? That’s the debate swirling around a new book by Pamela Druckerman ’91.

As the roomful of voices rose and lowered, overlapped, and occasionally fell silent, it sounded like a séance was being performed in the dark Brehmer Theater on Friday night. A packed theater of students as well as faculty, staff, and community members read separate lines as they floated across the divided screen on the stage. […]

From February 3 through April 6, the Picker Art Gallery at �þ���Ƶ will host installations by renowned artist Ann Hamilton. Hamilton is internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. The exhibition […]

You now can add “director of Oscar-nominated documentary” to the resume of �þ���Ƶ alumnus Joe Berlinger. Berlinger ’83 and Bruce Sinofsky are directors of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was among five films nominated today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a Best Documentary Feature.

This spring, 10 �þ���Ƶ students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. “They will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo will speak at �þ���Ƶ at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. For those who can’t attend the free session, his talk will be webcast live, allowing online viewers to pose questions and interact with other viewers.

Art students from �þ���Ƶ and from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will be showcasing their work at galleries on each other’s campuses.