Arts & Culture
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September 12, 2016
Professor reimagines presidential campaign as musical comedy
Faculty member Andy Kirshner has created a satirical movie-musical, “Liberty’s Secret,” which explores the relationship between politics and popular entertainment.
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August 30, 2016
Project to provide new lighting for Burton Memorial Tower
The iconic Burton Memorial Tower on Central Campus will undergo an interior lighting upgrade this fall, in time to celebrate the university’s bicentennial in 2017.
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August 12, 2016
Grant to help connect Matthaei Botanical Gardens with trail system
A nearly $730,000 grant will help create a hiking and biking trail that connects Matthaei Botanical Gardens with the regional border-to-border trail and beyond.
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July 22, 2016
Students, alumni take U-M to 2016 Traverse City Film Festival
Since 2009, LSA’s Department of Screen Arts & Cultures has forged a relationship with the Traverse City Film Festival, serving both as a sponsor and supporting partner in many ways.
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July 11, 2016
Art fair shifts schedule to allow Sunday attendance
The Ann Arbor Art Fair July 21-24 has shifted from the traditional Wednesday through Saturday schedule to Thursday through Sunday, to make attending more convenient.
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July 11, 2016
Taubman College architect reveals Detroit’s neighborhoods at night
Detroit-based architect Catie Newell wants to capture her city’s darkness before it’s gone. Detroit’s streetlights are being replaced by thousands of LEDs in a $185 million infrastructure project. “The lights are coming back, and we’ll lose that darkness,” says Newell, assistant professor of architecture, U-M’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and recent recipient… -
June 29, 2016
HathiTrust to help make books accessible to blind, print-disabled users
The HathiTrust Digital Library, hosted at U-M, is collaborating on a project to make more than 14 million digital books available to blind and print-disabled users.
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June 20, 2016
Hollywood legend Elizabeth Taylor is celebrated in UMMA exhibit
Elizabeth Taylor is the focus of the new U-M Museum of Art exhibit “Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road.” It presents new and recent work by Los Angeles-based artist Opie, called an essential figure in contemporary photography.
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June 6, 2016
Ann Arbor Summer Festival returns with 33rd Top of the Park season
For six nights each week starting June 10 and continuing through July 3, the Ann Arbor Summer Festival’s outdoor Top of the Park series presents free music performances ranging from folk pop, rock and jazz to rogue marching bands.
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June 2, 2016
More than 13M museum specimens moving to new U-M facility
Movers have begun hauling more than 13 million museum specimens from U-M’s zoology, paleontology and anthropology collections to a state-of-the-art collections and research facility south of campus.
