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'Art in Action,' the weeklong campus visit of artist and activist Melanie Cervantes, will feature lunch and informal conversation with the artist March 14 at 12:30 p.m. on the fourth fl

A great Italian opera by Franz Liszt - which lay incomplete and largely forgotten in a German archive for nearly two centuries - will be given its world premiere this summer after being resurrected by a Cambridge academic.

'No one hears the howling of a black girl ghost in the nighttime,' said performance artist Porsha 'O' Olayiwola in - Rekia Boyd ,' a piece about Boyd's death at the hands of a police officer.

Imagine you're waiting in your car and a poster for a concert from a local band catches your eye. What if you could just tune your car to a radio station and actually listen to that band's music' Or perhaps you see the poster on the side of a bus stop.

A major new project to record the Welsh language and explore the ways in which it is used today is underway.

Astronomical imagery, a motif central to the study of art history, took on a variety of different meanings and functions among the dominant cultures of the early medieval period.

A joint venture between the Royal College of Music and Imperial was awarded £1 million for a new research project on the arts and health.

Scholars from Freie Universität Involved in Exhibition in Beijing on History of documenta in Kassel / Opens March 1 ' 039/2017 from Feb 28, 2017 Through a partnership in China, the Institute for Arts

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Penn State School of Visual Arts Professor Helen O?Leary will be one of 35 artists exhibiting at the galleries of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, March 9-April 9, in New York City.

PRESS CONFERENCE on March 7: Unprecedented public/private partnership for provenance research: Collaborative search for confiscated works from the Rudolf Mosse Collection For the first time, descenda

Students from the University of Warwick are presenting a globally unique spectacle of world music on Sunday 26 Feb in the Warwick Arts Centre.

The Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) Program launched its lunch series Feb. 14 in Rockefeller Hall with a talk by sociologist Vida Maralani.

A new exhibition in Portugal's foremost national museum the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga offers a new interpretation of Renaissance Lisbon, thanks to research by a Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) historian.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The production of " Viva Verdi! " by the Lyric Theatre , opening Thursday at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts , is kind of a greatest hits show of the Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi.

The vitriolic abuse directed towards Australian politicians on Twitter has been brought to life as artworks as part of The Australian National University (ANU) 2017 Vice Chancellor's College Artist Fellows Scheme.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Music representing one of the most important scientific discoveries made on the University of Illinois campus will be played on the historic Altgeld Chimes and the McFarland Carillon as part of the U. of I.'s sesquicentennial celebration.

A previously undiscovered species of an extinct primordial giant worm with terrifying snapping jaws has been identified by an international team of scientists.

By Ann Lyon Ritchie "Lorna, The First Interactive Video Art Disk” by Lynn Hershman Leeson is a part of the Miller Gallery's current exhibition.

Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts partners with Brighton Festival in May The Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts ( ACCA ) is partnering with Brighton Festival as a co-producer on multiple events in the 2017 festival, which runs from 6-28 May.

Samantha Sheppard, assistant professor of performing and media arts, Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professor of English, Russell Rickford, associate professor of history, and Kevin Gaines, the W.E.B.

As one of the first records of human music, infant-directed singing permeates cultural boundaries and parenting traditions. Unlike other forms of caregiving, the act of mothers singing to infants is a universal behavior that seemingly withstands the test of time. On the surface, the exchange between mother and child may seem standard, but to Shannon de l'Etoile, professor of Music Therapy and associate dean of Graduate Studies at the University of Miami Frost School of Music , there is much more to the infant-directed song than meets the eye-and ear.

The Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA will donate approximately half of the profits from Royce Hall's Feb.

What makes a heartthrob? It's not what men think Alpha males beware. You're not what women want. At least, not unless you have a damaged, vulnerable side that makes you ready to be tamed.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Composer Erin Gee , a professor of composition-theory in the University of Illinois School of Music , is one of 10 composers selected to participate in Kronos Quartet's Fifty for the Future project in 2017.

"Synaesthesia Playground," an immersive, interactive classical concert event as dependent on its audience as on its performers and technologists, will have its West Coast premiere March 2 in UCLA's Schoenberg Hall.

Internationally recognised composer and performer Ken Lampl, who has written music for more than 70 films, TV shows and video games, has been appointed as Head of The Australian National University (ANU) School of Music.

To Channing Dungey, running a television network isn't just a job — it's more like a calling.

The University of Bristol and Bristol Cathedral are collaborating on a new research project which will explore the nature of sound inside the building and the way that it impacts on visitors.

With all the talk of 'fake news', is the world now best understood as a cartoon? Highly acclaimed artist Andy Holden provides his animated theory on the subject through a new exhibition just opened at Lancaster University's Peter Scott Gallery.

In discussions about climate change, many people seem to think the only real problem is replacing fossil fuels, and once that's done nothing much really needs to change.

By Danielle Lehmann Students at CMU's Entertainment Technology Center studied when people found augmented reality helpers useful.

This music video, directed by Jérôme de Gerlache, is a collaboration between French musician Yuksek and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet on the International Space Station.

Over 33,000 essays, scientific notes, and letters written by George III, Britain's longest reigning king, are now available to view and examine on a new global online portal launching today thanks to

Cardiff University is inviting staff, students and graduates to be part of an exciting public art trail across Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan.

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Skot Wiedmann creates music on a synthesizer that is only slightly larger than a sandwich and that took him just a couple of hours to build.