Cardinal Stage to Present a ‘Hip, Cool’ Take on ‘Frankenstein’
On the eve of the 200th birthday of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Cardinal Stage Company is taking on an adventurous stage adaptation of the Gothic classic.
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‘A Shared Elegy’ at the IU Grunwald Gallery: Works by Two Famed Photography Families (PHOTO GALLERY)
A spiritual vision comes into focus this fall with “A Shared Elegy,” a joint photography exhibit by the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art and the IU Grunwald Gallery of Art.
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Artists and Audiences Invited to Experience FlowMotion, Nov. 10–12 (PHOTO GALLERY)
As the co-founder of the Hudsucker Posse hoop dance troupe and executive director of FlowMotion Events, Paula Chambers knows a thing or two about the circus arts.
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Kendall Reeves: Pictures that Evoke Old-Time Feelings (PHOTO GALLERY)
The beauty of photography—and the science of developing and printing images—captured the imagination of Bloomington native Kendall Reeves in the eighth grade.
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Indiana Artists Celebrates 100 Years With Centennial Member Exhibition (IMAGE GALLERY)
A century ago, in 1917, a who’s who of Hoosier artists—T.C. Steele, William Forsyth, Otto Stark, Carl Graf, Wayman Adams, Marie Goth, and 40 other prominent painters—founded the state’s oldest juried artists’ organization.
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New Books from IU Press
While they may only be letters home from ordinary soldiers, the missives gathered in Letters from the Greatest Generation: Writing Home in WWII are historical documents at their finest. First published as Letters from Fighting Hoosiers in 1949, the collection was compiled after the Indiana War History Commission placed newspaper announcements soliciting letters from soldiers. Of the 3,500 it received, the commission selected 131 for publication.
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Dale Enochs’ Statehouse Sculpture ‘Really Puts the Public in Public Art’
When Bicentennial Plaza at the Indiana Statehouse was being renovated in 2016, the call for public art proposals presented a challenge.
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BSO Conductor Gómez Guillén Working to Reach New Audiences
Alejandro Gómez Guillén’s love affair with music started early. The artistic director and conductor of the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra (BSO) pointed toward a violin at a symphony concert when he was 4 years old and said, “I want to do that.”
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‘Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da’ We Have a Ukulele Club
On a recent Sunday afternoon, a dozen Bloomingtonians, ranging in age from 12 to 88, showed up at the Monroe County Public Library, ukuleles in hand.
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Jason Wilber: A B-town Boy, Now 47, with His 10th Album
When he moved to Bloomington in 1985 at the age of 15, Jason Wilber says he found a vibrant music town. “Bloomington had lots of good musicians, good record stores, and good places to play,” says the guitarist, 47, who is about to release his 10th solo album, Reaction Time.
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Meet Ellen Starr Lyon’s Family: ‘Emotional and Real and Healthy’
The room where Ellen Starr Lyon paints is just steps from the front door of her family home. Situated at the nexus between the kitchen and other living spaces, Lyon’s husband, two teenage children, and dog crisscross the room as she works, allowing her artistic ambitions to breathe and flourish within the center of her domestic universe.
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Lotus Festival Once Again Brings World Music to Town
The growth of Lotus World Music & Arts Festival is a phenomenon that can only happen in a community like Bloomington, says Sara Sheikh, Lotus Education & Arts Foundation marketing director.
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Quarry Festival of Books Invites Readers to Meet, Chat with Authors
Local bibliophiles will have the opportunity to meet and converse with nearly two dozen regional authors at the second Quarry Festival of Books, co-sponsored by IU Press and Bloom Magazine.
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Thank You, Randy White
On a momentous day in 1975, in the pulp-and-paper town of Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada, a stout 8-year-old boy was taken by his mother’s hand to see his first live play. The show was Godspell and the boy was Randy Timothy White. The performance made such an impression on young Randy that for the first time he began to question his future occupation—maybe he wouldn’t be a hockey player after all. Maybe his future was in the theater.
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New Arts Center On Near West Side To Feature Gallery, Theater & Library
The corner of Fourth and Rogers streets is a 10-minute walk from the downtown Square, Bloomington’s traditional nucleus of arts and entertainment. But David and Martha Moore, co-owners of Pictura Gallery, a fixture on the Square for a decade, are developing a new gallery and event space they hope extends cultural entertainment to the city’s Near West Side.
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Dalia Rosenfeld Returns Home To Promote Her First Book
To most Americans, to be a Hoosier is synonymous with unromantic, flyover-country ordinariness. In writer Dalia Rosenfeld’s adopted home of Tel Aviv, Israel, it makes her exotic.
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Angelo Pizzo—Movie Star! Oh, What Could Have Been
Shortly before Angelo Pizzo began making some of Hollywood’s most beloved underdog movies, the Bloomington native nearly became a leading man himself. In a plot worthy of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Pizzo caught the eye of one of television’s most powerful agents, who offered him guaranteed stardom.
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Eskenazi Museum Closed, But Active Online And in the Community
While it’s true the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art closed its doors in May for major renovations, Director David Brenneman says the museum is still a player in the art community. “The closure won’t circumscribe our activities,” he says. “We’ll still be out in the world.”
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Local Art for Local Businesses: A Win-Win for Bloomington
Traditionally, art galleries have been the major supporters of local artists, offering them places to exhibit and sell their work. Now, in many cities, Bloomington among them, nonprofit agencies, government entities, and for-profit businesses are supporting artists by purchasing art that reflects the local community.
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IU’s Lilly Library Has Home Movies Made by Famed Director John Ford
In December 2016, the Lilly Library at Indiana University made news when it received two more Oscars won by legendary film director John Ford. The library now has four of the six Academy Awards earned by Ford, who died in 1973.
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