PREVIOUS ARTS & ACADEME COLUMNS

• New operas are produced at the University of Southern California and the University of Maryland at College Park, a downed tree is reborn in student art at Iowa State, and Colorado College's open-piano ensemble holds a special concert. (7/20/2007)
• A new film tells the story of an art professor whose work was challenged under the USA Patriot Act. ... Students at Norwich University, a private military institution, interviewed the families of soldiers from Vermont who had been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan for a documentary. ... Exhibits of feminist art open across the country this month. (3/16/2007)
• A dance performance at Stanford University has no spectators, on purpose. ... A Japanese Zero airplane is once again in flames in Hawaii. (12/15/2006)
• Human interventions in the natural world are the subject of exhibitions at several Southern colleges. ... Muhlenberg College's fourth annual program on the theory and art of magic includes an academic conference as well as hocus-pocus. ... An art professor at Oregon State University finds a theme in the last meals of death-row inmates. ... Light accompanies music in an exhibition at Ball State University, and photographs of tattoos are on display at Cooper Union School of Art. (10/27/2006)
• More colleges are offering programs in musical theater, including a three-week summer "boot camp" at the New School. ... A special issue of Public Art Review celebrates public art on college campuses. ... A roundup of arts news in higher education. (8/11/2006)
• The early works of filmmakers who graduated from the California Institute of the Arts are being shown at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York City. ... Thirteen young filmmakers won prizes at the 33rd annual Student Academy Awards. ... A roundup of arts in academe. (6/30/2006)
• The prestigious American College Theater Festival at Washington's Kennedy Center honors student artists. ... A State Department grant program allows American museums to collaborate on exhibits with museums overseas. ... A scholar at the College of New Jersey has rigged up a system to measure people's emotional reactions to music. ... Colleges announce new arts gifts and other academic arts news. (5/5/2006)
• Art-history and art-appreciation courses get a new, more interactive treatment. ... A newfound trove of paintings, apparently by Jackson Pollock, provides insight into the artist's early work. ... People, technology, and artists' depictions of the relationship between them (3/10/2006)
• A dance performance at Wesleyan University mimics the movement of molecules. ... Ball State University's Biomechanics Laboratory uses motion-capture technology to create a video model of a double bassist's unusual technique. ... Other arts news in higher education. (2/24/2006)
• Emerson College has set out to document and preserve the history of American comedy in the 20th and 21st centuries. ... A survey by the Wallace Foundation has examined the reasons that people go to drama, dance, and music performances. ... Archivists at Columbia University's C.V. Starr East Asian Library are publishing online images from its collection of Japanese theater puppets. (1/13/2006)
• An exhibit at the University of Hartford showcased the design theory of a scholar who promoted architecture as a way of improving the living conditions of the poor. ... New arts buildings have opened on campuses across the country. ... The University of California at Los Angeles organized the third World Festival of Sacred Music. (11/25/2005)
• Members of a higher-education theater association, unwilling to cross picket lines at their conference's hotel, gave lectures and performed in San Francisco's streets and parks. (9/2/2005)
• As Columbia University closes its arts-journalism program, Syracuse University creates one. (8/5/2005)