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On March 27 the composer Pauline Oliveros will be the first woman to receive the William Schuman Award.

Experts from the Institute of Psychiatry at King's, have called for urgent educational and harm reduction guidance on mephedrone, in an Editorial published in the 'The recent deaths of two young men

On Sunday 21 March, 200 musicians from across King's College London came together for the second Arts and Humanities Alumni Concert, a performance of Verdi's choral masterpiece, the in one of London's most prestigious concert venues, Cadogan Hall.

Taking the re-examination of the Small Press Collection of rare magazines housed at UCL as its theme, this event gives visitors the chance to engage with the spirit of the alternative 'avant-garde' press, re-visiting early texts that straddle the divide between art and poetry ?

A new National Portrait Gallery display of unseen paintings of 16th- and 17th-century mystery figures opens at the National Trust?s Montacute House tomorrow.

McGill's Faculty of Law is proud to announce that tax law expert Kim Brooks is one of ten professors from across the country selected for Canada's most prestigious university teaching awards, the 3M National Teaching Fellowships.

We would like a representative group of women, men and transgender staff at all grades and across all faculties to participate in this review.

To celebrate the discovery, undergraduate music student and harpist Julia Somerville performed an extract from the symphony at the University's Main Library.

Two women from The University of Manchester are among the country's 50 "Women to watch”, after a vote by a distinguished panel of judges for the Government funded Cultural Leadership Programme.

The record player has been used in a creative manner for the creation of music for at least 40 years.

For the first time ever, the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts will join forces to present the innovative industry symposium " Transmedia, Hollywood: S/Telling the Story .

Columbia's School of the Arts was a winner at this year's Academy Awards when alumna Kathryn Bigelow (SoA'81) and adjunct professor Geoffrey Fletcher received Oscars for director and adapted screenplay.

For almost 600 years, the printed book has provided mankind with education, information and entertainment, yet today the supremacy of Gutenberg's technology seems under threat.

Members of The Young Company and their students discuss the program.

Art | University 26 Feb 10 The Ashmolean Museum underwent a £61 million redevelopment, designed by award-winning Rick Mather Architects.

With less than two weeks until the Oscars, Kathryn Bigelow (SOA'81) and her film The Hurt Locker continue their winning streak.

Imperial students get creative for ArtsFest 2010 ArtsFest 2010 showcases student creativity at Imperial withc oncerts, exhibitions and dance and drama workshops - %0A " Monday 22 February 2010 By Abi

, part of Columbia's School of the Arts (SoA). The show, which runs through Feb. 26, includes artists' interpretations of the filmic achievements of James O. Incandenza, the protagonist of Wallace's critically acclaimed Infinite Jest , published in 1996.

February 17, 2010 — Coral Gables — How will Haiti begin to address the destruction of many of its cultural institutions and artifacts?

This year's Oscar nominations were announced just as the annual Sundance Film Festival wrapped up its award presentations—with Columbia alumni and faculty members among the top honorees.

James Steward, the new director of the Princeton University Art Museum, is embracing a host of strategies to enhance the museum's visibility and improve the accessibility of its exhibitions.

From left, President Shirley M. Tilghman and Campaign Co-Chairs Robert S. Murley and Nancy B. Peretsman spoke to reporters Thursday, Nov.

Peter B. Lewis (seated nearest podium) was honored during a naming celebration Thursday afternoon for the Peter B. Lewis Center for the Arts.

Steven Holl Architects designed an expansion and renovation of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Mo.

  For more than two years, a team of architects, landscape architects and planners at Princeton University has labored to strike a perfect balance between the old and the new.

Robert Fagles, renowned translator of Greek classics, died March 26 in Princeton of prostate cancer.

Below left: The figure shows how geometrical music theory represents four-note chord-types - the collections of notes form a tetrahedron, with the colors indicating the spacing between the individual notes in a sequence.

Michael S. Mahoney, who earned his Ph.D. from Princeton and then dedicated his 40-year academic career in the history of science to the University, died Wednesday, July 23, at the University Medical Center at Princeton.

A major entry to the Princeton campus and community is being redesigned as a 21st-century portal with the door lodged firmly open.

James Steward, a skilled arts administrator and a specialist in 18th- and 19th-century European art and culture, has been selected as director of the Princeton University Art Museum .

Susan Marshall has been named the first director of the Program in Dance and Joe Scanlan has been selected as the new director of the Program in Visual Arts in the University's Lewis Center for the Arts .

Holger Staude (left), an economics major from Frankfurt, Germany, will deliver the class of 2009 valedictory address at Commencement on June 2.

Princeton - Princeton Princeton will commemorate the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. with its annual King Day celebration Monday, Jan.

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Ethnic studies emerged as an intellectual movement in the wake of societal transformations associated with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.

January 21, 2010 — Coral Gables — The College of Arts and Sciences Center for the Humanities at the University of Miami and the College of Arts and Sciences at Florida International University (FIU) will present Atlantic Narratives ?

opens nationwide on Boxing Day with a special introduction by acclaimed director Martin Scorsese.

Zurich - University of Zurich Die Malerei gilt als Inbegriff der Kunst. Wandteppiche und andere textile Kunstwerke werden dagegen als zweitrangig wahrgenommen und wenig erforscht.

Events are free and take place at the UCLA Broad Art Center's New Wight Gallery (Room 1100) or EDA facility (Room 1250).