U-M emerges as international incubator for arts
ANN ARBOR—The University of Michigan’s website, Montage, highlights the latest news and features about the arts, creative endeavors, collaborative projects and upcoming events.
To visit the site, go to www.montage.umich.edu. This week’s top features on Montage include:
- Creative Force: What do Philip Glass, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Jessye Norman have in common? They each came to U-M to develop major works of art. What’s the draw? State-of-the-art facilities and a highly engaged community of students, artists and scholars.
- Relatively revolutionary: Widely recognized as one of the greatest creative achievements of the 20th century, Philip Glass’ “Einstein on the Beach” will be remounted Jan. 20-22 at U-M before it tours internationally.
- Access to knowledge: Open Humanities Press and MPublishing have published one of six open access books on critical theory, continental philosophy and cultural studies. The titles will be freely available as full-text HTML, as well as in paperback editions. The publication is another chapter in U-M’s effort to increase accessibility to libraries around the world.
- U-M professor plays key role in Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial: Jim Chaffers, professor emeritus at U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, was one of several people from around the country chosen to oversee the design and construction of the memorial to Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C. Watch an interview with Chaffers at http://www.montage.umich.edu/2012/01/a-living-memorial
- Legendary in small-scale: The U-M Museum of Art features the smaller-scale work of preeminent American sculptor Mark di Suvero in an exhibition entitled “Mark di Suvero: Tabletops.” Di Suvero is best known for his dynamic and monumental works made of industrial steel and salvaged materials that populate museum grounds, landscapes and urban environments around the world. The exhibit runs through Feb. 26.