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As the roomful of voices rose and lowered, overlapped, and occasionally fell silent, it sounded like a séance was being performed in the dark Brehmer Theater on Friday night. A packed theater of students as well as faculty, staff, and community members read separate lines as they floated across the divided screen on the stage. […]

From February 3 through April 6, the Picker Art Gallery at 51���� will host installations by renowned artist Ann Hamilton. Hamilton is internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. The exhibition […]

You now can add “director of Oscar-nominated documentary” to the resume of 51���� alumnus Joe Berlinger. Berlinger ’83 and Bruce Sinofsky are directors of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was among five films nominated today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a Best Documentary Feature.

This spring, 10 51���� students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. “They will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when […]

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo will speak at 51���� at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. For those who can’t attend the free session, his talk will be webcast live, allowing online viewers to pose questions and interact with other viewers.

Art students from 51���� and from Syracuse University’s College of Visual and Performing Arts will be showcasing their work at galleries on each other’s campuses.

When Simona Maicanescu took to the Brehmer Theater stage last weekend to perform Wallace Shawn’s The Fever, the connection between the work and the university was at first oblique. But her arresting performance of the 90-minute monologue on materialism, Marxism, and the inequitable distribution of wealth invited the kind of debate that takes place at […]

Author Colson Whitehead, who visited campus Thursday as part of the Living Writers course, shared thoughtful insights and lots of laughs with audience members who filled Persson Auditorium and with about 60 others who watched him through a live webcast.