Bang on a Can and Trio Mediaeval melded a myriad of musical instruments to create a truly unique style in a short performance Tuesday night lasting a little more than an hour.
Experiences abroad and creative talent came together Monday as students, alumni, faculty and staff displayed photos from their time around the globe.
The photos, submissions for the 10th annual International Photography Competition hosted by the Center for Global Initiatives, will be on display in the FedEx Global Education Center atrium until Jan. 4.
Visual artist Oliver Herring will give a lecture at UNC tonight and will also be visiting the University in the spring to set up an art event with community participation.
He will be speaking at 5:30 p.m. today at Hanes Art Center auditorium.
In an interview with The Daily Tar Heel, Herring talked about his work:
If you thought the nearly seven-hour duration or the lineup of more than 150 characters spoke to the scope of “Nicholas Nickleby,” try counting the costumes and sets that allow the show to go on.
Master in Fine Arts students are opening their studios up to the public tonight in the UNC Art Lab, offering free food and a chance to see their upcoming works.
The art lab, which is located just off Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, will feature art from six current M.F.A. students from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The five-part dramatic series that begins today includes everything from sexuality and race to incarceration — but all of the shows share a common thread as solo performances.
Though all of the choral groups on campus share a passion for singing, they each have a unique approach. This weekend, three groups will bring their own styles to the stage.
“Every group kind of has their shtick,” said Katie Paxton, president of the Loreleis.
If you have ever been in an awkward situation, comedian Mike Birbiglia knows how you feel.
The comedian has become famous for his stand-up, which usually plays off awkward situations.
Students and the community alike have the opportunity to hear about these awkward situations and more as UNC welcomes Birbiglia for a performance tonight.
Complicated rhythms, disjointed melodies and unusual tone qualities make much of the traditional classical music written in the last 50 years so nontraditional that many ensembles avoid it altogether when crafting concert programs.
Charles Dickens is known for creating memorable literary characters through his words. But the grouchy-voiced Scrooge that comes to mind may have been created through the influence of performances and illustrations of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” not his original writings.
Sitting in a room watching a naked person for several hours is usually considered reprehensible, but for more some art students it’s integral to their grade.
In life drawing classes at UNC and in the community, nude models pose while students surround them with easels, drawing their figures.
Indie rock, though usually thought of as uniquely American, is created around the world.
The showcase of Chinese underground music tonight brings three Chinese indie artists, who represent some of the best in a genre increasing in popularity internationally, to UNC.
In an effort to accommodate student and faculty schedules and promote downtown Chapel Hill nightlife, the Ackland Art Museum is extending their Thursday hours.
For the first time in the museum’s history, it has added evening hours on Thursdays until 8 p.m.
Andrea Barrett, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize-nominated author famed for her historical fiction, will give the last public reading as part of the Creative Writing Program’s new Living Writers course today.
12:10 a.m. Nov. 5 - Due to a reporting error, this story misstated the time of the Anoop Desai concert. It begins at 7 p.m. Sunday. The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the error.
Through personal stories about the roots of blues music, William Ferris documented his home state of Mississippi in the 1960s and 1970s.
A folklorist and professor of history at UNC, Ferris is now showing his photography until Nov. 30 at the Center for the Study of the American South at the Love House and Hutchins Forum on East Franklin Street.
Close to the heart of campus, a National Historic Landmark sits shuttered and dark.
And the Historic Playmakers Theatre — once home to the University’s undergraduate dramatic productions — will remain closed, unless a change comes in either federal policy or UNC’s financial situation.
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