2.28.07
Extracurricular writing 'extraordinarily important' to undergraduates, study finds
Among the 15,000 pieces of student writing Professor Andrea Lunsford has collected in recent years are e-mails in 11 languages, a video of The Hip Hopera, an AIDS poster, a website on cleft palate, music and lyrics, lab reports, research papers, honors theses and poetry. Lots and lots of poetry. Full Story

2.16.07
The American West via Avedon's lens
In 1978, the director of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, asked Richard Avedon to photograph a series of portraits that captured the spirit of the American West. Now, many of those images are on view through May 6 at the Cantor Center as part of a 20th-anniversary exhibition, "In the American West: Photographs by Richard Avedon." Admission is free and open to the public. Full Story

Avedon's view of the West

2.21.07
Forum tackles question: Why read books?
At a time when people express concern about the fate of the book, three scholars—Seth Lerer, Leah Price and Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht— who are intimately familiar with the life of the mind nurtured by the bound printed word will appear together for an Aurora Forum titled “Why Read Books?” Full Story

2.14.07
In ‘cultural transformation,’ Lai adapts hit play for English-speaking audience

L.A. Cicero

Playwright and director Stan Lai and junior Stefanie Shih work on a scene from his play Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land, which he translated into English.

When the curtain opens on Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land next week and the young actors take the stage, playwright and director Stan Lai will be watching from a hidden vantage point, eyes and ears attuned to the reaction of the first audience to hear his popular Chinese play performed in English. Full Story

Two plays within a play mix comedy and tragedy

2.7.07
Monet in pastel

Courtesy Cantor Arts Center

The Cantor Center for Visual Arts is the first museum in the world to display this pastel by Claude Monet, which dates to the 1860s. Full Story