The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “Torkwase Dyson: Bird and Lava” March 22 to July 10. Anchored by a new acquisition, the exhibition presents an expansive view of the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist’s “Bird and Lava” series and coincides with Dyson’s installation “Bird and Lava (Scott Joplin)” as part of St. Louis’ Counterpublic triennial.
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Scientists at Tyson Research Center, Washington University in St. Louis' environmental field station, are carefully tracking the timing of salamander breeding as part of a larger research effort examining the impacts of climate change on amphibians and plants.
In the years after World War II, a series of global shifts, including African decolonization and the U.S. civil rights movement, led artists to explore a new politics of form, synthesizing and integrating different visual and cultural traditions. This spring, the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University in St. Louis will present “African Modernism in America,” the first traveling survey to examine the diverse aesthetic strategies, and complex relationships, between African artists and American artists, scholars, patrons and cultural organizations.
Samulnori, a genre of traditional Korean percussion music, is among the many acts to perform at the annual Lunar New Year celebration, which will run Feb. 3-4 at Edison Theatre at Washington University in St. Louis.