Celebrating 150 years of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters by Barry Adams
The exhibit on the third floor of Overture Center includes the instruments used in the 1870s by crews led by Thomas Chamberlain to study and sample Wisconsin’s glacial and mineral deposits, artesian wells and soils. There are skins of a black squirrel, ermine and...
Annual student art show opens in Memorial Union, lighting up second-floor gallery space by Yvonne Kim
The 92nd annual student art show is now up and running at the Memorial Union, highlighting sculptures, neon installations and paintings created and curated by University of Wisconsin-Madison students. Presented by the student-run Wisconsin Union Directorate Art...
Comic genius by Jay Rath
Lynda Barry’s Making Comics is part memoir, part self-help, and a passionate call for introspection. Most of all it’s about creativity. Call it yoga for your head. Also, it’s about comics. “Have you given up on drawing?” asks the note scrawled on the back cover,...