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Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series 鈥淭he Bob Newhart Show鈥� and 鈥淣ewhart鈥� were huge hits throughout the 1970s and 鈥�80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94. - Variety

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In Memoriam: Jonathan Wilson

We are deeply saddened by the death of Professor of Theatre Jonathan Wilson, who passed away suddenly on Sunday, June 23. Professor Wilson鈥檚 contributions to 黑料门Theatre, to generations of theatre students and theater artists here and across the nation, as well as the world of American Theatre warrant tribute. Our thoughts are with Professor Wilson鈥檚 family, friends, and community.Plans are underway for a memorial hosted by the Department of Fine and Performing Arts in the Fall. Click to read about Professor Wilson and sign up to receive details about the memorial when they are available.

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Arts & Culture

黑料门Today features Fairview in the Arts & Culture section."An antique dining table, an upholstered ottoman, and a blanket draped over an armchair with calculated effortlessness. It might look like your great aunt鈥檚 house, but it鈥檚 the set of Fairview, a Pulitzer prize-winning play by Jackie Sibblies Drury. DeRon Williams, PhD, is directing the show at 黑料门this spring." - Vivian Ewing

Alumni

Bob Newhart's improbable journey from 黑料门business student to American comedy icon

In the media

"Devised and led by conductor Kirsten Hedegaard, co-founder and artistic director of the EcoVoice Project, the program consisted of two works that leveraged the traditional Catholic mass form to comment on global extinction at the hands of humanity. Both pieces were harmonically and contextually modern but assumed differing rhetorical and aesthetic stances to deliver their urgent warning."

Faculty Spotlight

Sandra Kaufmann discusses Martha Graham's "Suite from Appalachian Spring"

Sandra Kaufmann, Founding Director of the 黑料门University Chicago Dance Program, brings her deep knowledge of the Graham technique to Kanopy Dance's Graham: In HER Voice, presented this Spring at the Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI.As a Guest Regisseur for Kanopy Dance Company, Sandra uses her extensive performing career with the Martha Graham Dance Company to restage and contextualize Graham's "Suite from Appalachian Spring." The historic work premiered in 1944, exuding optimism and celebration during a time of war and grief. In the 21st Century, "Suite from Appalachian Spring" continues to spark imagination and harbor hope for a more joyous future.Video Courtesy of Kanopy Dance

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Faculty Research

SFMOMA has recently acquired a series of photographs by Associate Professor and Director of Fine Arts, Noritaka Minami. The acquired photos are from Minami's '1972/Accumulations' series, which documents Tokyo's Nakagin Capsule Tower. The building proposed a radical prototype for a new mode of living and Minami's work captures how this vision of the future appears in retrospect.

Faculty Research

Recent Art History Publications by Dr. Olivia Wolf

Dr. Olivia Wolf, Assistant Professor in Art History, has published several new peer-reviewed texts over the 2022-23 academic year, engaging with both her primary and secondary areas of research in Latin American and Middle Eastern art, respectively.Most recently, her article, "Transnational traces in the Espigas repository: Bib铆 Zogb茅's artistic production and early critical reception at the Galer铆as Witcomb (1934-1937)" was published as part of the bilingual Spanish-English Cuadernos series by the Centro de Estudios Espigas / Centro de Investigaciones en Arte y Patrimonio (CONICET-UNSAM). In this article, Wolf examines the creative production and critical framing of Arab-Argentine artist Bib铆 Zogb茅 via a series of exhibition catalogs published by the Buenos Aires-based Witcomb Gallery in the 1930s and 40s.

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Alumni

黑料门alumna Ayanna Williams is on a mission to make high-quality performing arts education accessible to all children.

Alumni

Art with Impact: Empathy on Stage

"The point of learning how to make theatre is to do it, and to do it in community, and to do it in service to the world"

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In the media

The 黑料门Dance Program and it's student-led Dance Honor Society are featured in a Dance Magazine article that surveys undergraduate programs that merge the arts and social justice.鈥淲hy should I be dancing now? Shouldn鈥檛 I be doing something more 鈥榮erious?鈥� 鈥滻n the midst of a turbulent political颅 climate, racial injustices and a global pandemic, a lot of dancers might find themselves asking the same questions. But rather than abandoning the arts, college dancers are discovering ways to marry their schoolwork with activism, using movement to respond to the world around them.