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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Insects that explode or start fires are a great plot device in a horror film, but they also have (almost) real-life counterparts.

Composer and filmmaker create musical portrait of Brighton for arts festival Among the highlights of this year's Brighton Festival, which begins tomorrow (7 May), is a specially commissioned film about the city made by two University of Sussex academics.

The College of Arts and Sciences' new home in Klarman Hall will host a series of "Big Ideas" panels as part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration.

David Edward Byrd , an iconic designer of rock and Broadway posters, learned about painting and the world of fine art at Carnegie Mellon University.

Brisbane's St John's Cathedral and the Spring Hill Reservoirs are set to be transformed for a series of "immersive concerts" created and produced by a University of Queensland duo.

Once, she soared above the heads of Cornell luminaries like A.R. Ammons and Roald Hoffmann as they debated the great questions of their time in the Cast Gallery of Goldwin Smith Hall, later turned into the Temple of Zeus café.

Once, she soared above the heads of Cornell luminaries like A.R. Ammons and Roald Hoffmann as they debated the great questions of their time in the Cast Gallery of Goldwin Smith Hall, later turned into the Temple of Zeus café.

To commemorate the Chinese new year, ANU Alumna Claire Tracey has created a 2.5 metre tall monkey.

By Cynthia Lee Newsroom By Cynthia Lee Newsroom Everyone marches to the beat of their own drum: From walking to talking to producing music, different people's movements occur at different speeds. But do these differences influence coordination of group actions? The answer is yes, according to McGill University researchers.

Research released today has revealed that The Beatles legacy adds £81.9m to the Liverpool economy each year and creates 2,335 jobs. Collaboratively produced by the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University, through the Institute of Cultural Capital, European Institute of Urban Affairs and the Institute of Popular Music, the report was commissioned by Liverpool City Council to evaluate the current and future economic impact of The Beatles.

Today, one of the great collections of art in the UK celebrates its bicentenary. Two hundred years to the day of his death, the Fitzwilliam Museum has revealed previously unknown details of the life of its mysterious founder, Richard 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion.

ANN ARBOR-The University of Michigan Library will welcome the papers of another veteran filmmaker to their growing archive of material that highlights visionaries in the genre of independent film.

ANN ARBOR-Jane Chu, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will deliver the commencement address at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance' 2016 graduation ceremony in late April, the school has announced.

Going Home Star - Truth and Reconciliation is a ballet and a shattering history lesson in one.

Columbia University announced a $13 million gift from the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation that will establish the Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art and the Mary Griggs

I am committed to making sure the ANU School of Music works well, and that music remains an important part of the culture and community life of ANU.

Eddo Stern straddles the world of fine art and game design to ask fundamental questions about what is real Mike Fricano For UCLA design media arts professor Eddo Stern, video games aren't "just games.

From UCLA's first years, music in all its forms has resounded across campus. Jazz, classical, rock, opera, world music, musical theater, film scoring and more are part of the UCLA tradition in performance, composition and scholarship.

It was the love for the place, the buildings and the international atmosphere that tempted. Since 1 January 2016, Professor Swetlana Heger-Davis is the new rector of Umeå Academy of Fine Arts.

"How many of you have cried today? How many of you cried yesterday? .

Good filmmakers know intuitively that close-ups can be much briefer than longer-distance shots and still maintain their power. A Cornell psychologist has explained why. It takes less time to read an actor's expression when her face fills up the frame and there's nothing else in the shot to distract from it.

Future smart watches could go hands-free thanks to eye-tracking technology that is literally revolutionary.

New public art installations will be unveiled along the Forth and Clyde Canal this weekend, paying tribute to the waterway's industrial heritage and the role it plays today.

On 27 January at 19:30 at the Unipark Nonntal: Reading »Power and Resistance« by Ilija Trojanow. Mittwoch, 27.

One of the most successful and legendary figures in the screen industry, Walter Murch, is to give a talk at The University of Nottingham.

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has today listed 41 post-war public sculptures across the country including University of Warwick's 3B Series 1 Sculpture, in Rootes Building courtyard, on main campus in Coventry.

A novel process for analyzing and visualizing sound has been designed by the Laboratoire Sciences et Technologies de la Musique et du Son (CNRS/IRCAM/French Ministry of Culture and Communication/UPMC).

ANN ARBOR-In the early 20th century, the Edison Phonograph Company amassed a large collection of 19th-century American sheet music to select from it works to record for the American public. The recording company closed in 1929, but the Edison Sheet Music Collection remained, making its way to the Henry Ford family and into various other hands before the University of Michigan Library acquired it in 1989.

You've just stolen one of the most famous paintings in the world - what's your next move? Who buys the Mona Lisa or The Scream? In Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime , a free online course develop

Sound artist exposes hidden networks while at Sussex Ever thought about the network of ships, planes and trains that works silently to make sure our supermarket shelves are stocked and re-stocked?

UK teens are heavily exposed to alcohol and tobacco images and lyrics in digital YouTube music videos, say researchers at the UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies at The University of Nottingham.

Juliet McMains is an associate professor in the University of Washington Dance Program and author of " Spinning Mambo into Salsa: Caribbean Dance in Global Commerce,” published in 2015 by Oxford University Press.

WHO: Patrisse Cullors and Opal Tometi are two of the three co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.

A slide from the Tarr exhibition of photos of glaciers in Alaska and Greenland, which is being digitized through the Grants Program for Digital Collections.

The exhibition, Richard Diebenkorn: The Sketchbooks Revealed , has been extended through Aug. 22, 2016, and all of the artist's sketchbooks are online via a new website.

Burton Morris (A 1986), an alumnus from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Design , is the real thing.

On Dec. 15, science illustrator and artist Jane Kim completed the only known mural in the world with paintings that encompass all families of birds on one wall.

Pupils record album with University students Pupils from Oakdale and Pontllanfraith Comprehensive Schools visited Cardiff University this week to record their very own album with students from the University's School of Music.