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Bob Newhart, Comedy Icon, Dies at 94
Bob Newhart, the genteel but sharply satirical comic whose TV series “The Bob Newhart Show” and “Newhart” were huge hits throughout the 1970s and ’80s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 94. - Variety
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Faculty
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’s contributions to Loyola 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’s 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
Fairview sets stage for difficult discussions, dramatic impact
Loyola 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’s house, but it’s the set of Fairview, a Pulitzer prize-winning play by Jackie Sibblies Drury. DeRon Williams, PhD, is directing the show at Loyola this spring." - Vivian Ewing
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Alumni
An Unexpected Calling
Bob Newhart's improbable journey from Loyola business student to American comedy icon
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In the media
Recent Mass Reimagined Concert Reviewed by Chicago Classical Review
"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."
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Faculty Spotlight
Sandra Kaufmann discusses Martha Graham's "Suite from Appalachian Spring"
Sandra Kaufmann, Founding Director of the Loyola 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
Faculty photographs acquired by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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.
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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: Bibí Zogbé's artistic production and early critical reception at the Galerías 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 Bibí Zogbé via a series of exhibition catalogs published by the Buenos Aires-based Witcomb Gallery in the 1930s and 40s.
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Alumni
Leading with Music
Loyola alumna Ayanna Williams is on a mission to make high-quality performing arts education accessible to all children.
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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
How College Dancers Can Marry Their Passion to Activism
The Loyola 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.“Why should I be dancing now? Shouldn’t I be doing something more ‘serious?’ ”In the midst of a turbulent political 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.
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