Pandemic can’t keep UW–Madison’s Pinc from bringing MFA show to public
In an early March email promoting his upcoming master of fine arts (MFA) show, the magnitude of the exhibition to UW–Madison graduate student Guzzo Pinc was clear. “Of all the events I’ve put on over the past years this one means the most to me,” Pinc wrote to fellow...
Resonance with Evil: Displacement, Physicality, and the Uncanniness of Witchcraft: Cate Richards’s “Turnips, Like Skulls, Are Heaped House High” by Amber Rose Cederström
Scholars of historical witchcraft occasionally fall prey to a tendency towards dry recitation of reconstructed facts, interpreting them narrowly within the confines of their particular disciplines—whether history, folklore, sociology, and so on. Especially for...
Hogarth at Pitzhanger: Artist Faisal Abdu’Allah on cutting hair at new exhibition about life in London by Samuel Fishwick
Ceci n’est pas un haircut. On the one hand, Faisal Abdu’Allah’s Live Salon is one of the best trims in town (also, free), and familiar territory: the barber’s chair, the unfurling of the cape, the snicker-snack of scissors. Yet in place of a reliable mirror to keep an...
UW–Madison School of Education No. 1 among public institutions in U.S. News rankings
UW–Madison’s School of Education and several of its programs are once again ranked among the very best in the nation in the 2021 edition of U.S. News & World Report’s Best Graduate Schools rankings released Tuesday, March 17. UW-Madison is home to the No. 1-ranked...