Arts News from the Chronicles


Postmodern design, transformations of craft

The impact of high style on the hand-made elements of craft is an ongoing, if contentious, phenomenon. The Lamar Dodd School of Art hosts a lecture by a curator from the Victoria and Albert Museum, who will talk about the recent V & A exhibition exploring this topic. Glenn Adamson, Deputy Head…

Collegium Musicum presents Handel's Messiah

The University of Georgia Collegium Musicum and Players, UGA's premier Early Music ensemble directed by associate professor in the Hodgson School of Music Mitos Andaya, will perform Handel's Messiah on Sunday, April 1 at 6 pm at the First Presbyterian Church in downtown Athens. While a great…

Faces of Divas

This event is free and open to the public. Thursday, March 22, 8 pm, Hugh Hodgson Concert Hall. FREE Image: The quintessential diva, Australian soprano Joan Sutherland, flanked by Luciano Pavarotti, left, and Spiro Malas performing Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment, 1966. Getty Images.
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2012 MFA Exit Show

This will just serve as a 'Save the Date' but the 2012 MFA Exit Show is coming up in the Lamar Dodd School of Art and it should be a good one. A great group of graduate students from a broad range of media come together for a show that goes on view March 23 in galleries all over the school. The…
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History of the American Novel

Henry James, Henry Miller, James Baldwin, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Agee, Alice Walker, William Faulkner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph Ellison, William Burroughs, Ernest Hemingway, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, Joan Didion, William Gaddis, Cormac…

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