Published Sunday, October 5, 2008
Illuminating Rural Reality
When Mary Pixley gazes at a painting, she nearly falls in. This time the museum associate curator is leaning dangerously close to one of the paintings she chose for the “Missouri through Lens and Palette” exhibition at the Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri.
DiCaprio not ready to settle down
Super Bowl books the Boss
Company sues Ed McMahon
VISUAL ARTS
Museum’s Alex Barker visualizes more visitor engagement
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
After seeing through a few changes in his nearly two years as Museum of Art and Archaeology director, including rebuilding funding lost after a series of budget cuts and bringing on new staff members such as Associate Curator Mary
Pixley, Alex Barker hopes to see more fresh ideas brought to life this academic year.
NICHE: A WEEKLY PEEK AT AN AREA ARTIST
Dan Hemmelgarn
By LINDSEY HOWALD
of the Tribune’s staff
In his "Farm Hands" series, photographer Dan Hemmelgarn eliminates all distractions by training his camera away from his subjects’ faces, bodies and surroundings and creating emotionally compelling portraits of only their hands.
Fourth annual Campus Gallery and Culture Crawl delights with exciting art exhibitions
The fourth annual MU Campus Gallery and Culture Crawl returns Tuesday to celebrate exciting exhibitions on the University of Missouri campus. The event also includes music and food. Free and open to the public, it begins at 4:30 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. with five locations and five very different
topics.
Photographer revisits past subjects in new exhibit
By ANN LEVIN of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - In a culture that seemingly suffers from attention deficit disorder, photographer Susan Meiselas stands out for her insistent desire to go back and revisit the people and places she has shot.
Arts festival honors artists
Visual artists Paul Pfrehm and Jimmy Liu received top awards last weekend during the 17th annual Columbia Festival of the Arts.
County art show winners named
The top winners of the Boone County Art Show, named last Sunday, included
Lucille Wayland, whose “Earthly Glow” won the Boone County National Bank
Purchase Award, and Nancy Brown, whose art “War: From the Horses of the
Apocalypse” garnered the Popular Choice Award.
EXHIBITS
MUSIC
DiFranco’s fresh album celebrates a new mantra
By CARYN ROUSSEAU
of The Associated Press
For a woman on a mission with the reputation for angry, Ani DiFranco has finally sat herself down and taken a deep breath with "Red Letter Year" (Righteous Babe).
Old dream, new dream
By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY
of The Associated Press
NEW YORK - Two years ago, the biggest question surrounding Jennifer Hudson’s career was whether she could act.
LIVE
MUSIC
BOOKS
COVER TO COVER
"Liberty” by Garrison Keillor, (Viking, 257 pages)
By JOSEPH B. FRAZIER
of The Associated Press
Garrison Keillor’s newest look at Lake Wobegon is a bit racier than usual - or perhaps necessary - and is chaotic in a beautiful way.
Correspondent Filkins parts
fog of war to find the reality
By HENRY C. JACKSON
of The Associated Press
For generations, war correspondence has been a hallowed art of journalism, a specialty craft in which even the most deft and skilled writers often fail - or for good reason never endeavor to try.
BEST
SELLERS
PERFORMING ARTS
LIFTING THE CURTAIN
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock and Willie Gilbert, this delightful diversion about the triumph of the common man opened on Broadway in 1961 and ran for 1,417 performances.
ON
STAGE
