ARTS
MU’s Summer Repertory Theatre opens next week, and this summer it’s all about relationships. This year’s productions deal with real-life situations. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change features short vignettes about the interactions between men and women, and Steel Magnolias follows the lives of six southern ladies.
July 01, 2009
MU theater brings relationships full of love and laughter to the stage.
MU’s Summer Repertory Theatre opens next week, and this summer it’s all about relationships. This year’s productions deal with real-life situations. I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change features short vignettes about the interactions between men and women, and Steel Magnolias follows the lives of six southern ladies.
June 24, 2009
Sweet delights for your special day
When choosing a wedding cake, each bride yearns for a masterpiece that displays her particular personality, taste and style to ensure a flawless wedding. Five local bakeries in Columbia have noticed a difference in décor for wedding cakes; bakers say cakes are becoming more modern in design and increasingly adventurous in flavor.
June 17, 2009
Lyceum Theatre brings big Broadway hits to mid-Missouri
The sleepy town of Arrow Rock is famous for more than its rustic charm and tiny population. It is also home to the acclaimed Lyceum Theatre, highly regarded by New York critics for its extensive list of stage successes. It’s not surprising then that professional talents flock to join this repertory theater.
June 10, 2009
Learn to cook, craft and paint this summer
This summer give yourself the chance to develop into a whole new you. Columbia offers several different classes to help you learn how to do pretty much everything.
June 03, 2009
Everything you need to know about where to find, buy and sell local art in Columbia
Stores, museums and restaurants all over town eagerly display the work of hometown artists. But in a town so loyal to the locals, how do you sort through the who, what and where? In order to make what might seem like a daunting task dramatically easier, Vox breaks down seven spots looking to showcase the work of the local creative crowd. From submission to commission, put down that paintbrush and pick up a pen.
May 27, 2009
MU museum shows an exhibit of Andy Warhol’s working photographs
No one better encapsulates the ’60s-era pop art craze than Andy Warhol, the coolest of outcasts. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts recently gave obscure photographs from the depths of Warhol’s factory to MU’s Museum of Art and Archaeology.
May 20, 2009
Chris Teeter’s artwork opens doors
It’s 3 p.m., and Chris Teeter’s office is a hot mess. In his disheveled white studio, rusty metal clamors for attention against tape measures, saws and screws — all of it chaotic. It’s like being backstage at Tool Time, the combined clutter adding at least five degrees to the cramped room.
May 14, 2009
Tecktonik: the emergence of a new subculture
Getting into Tecktonik takes two preliminary steps. Step one: Find your tightest pair of pants. Step two: Throw them away, and get some tighter ones.
Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter
Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner took Home of a Rebel Sharpshooter and manipulated the image, which fooled Americans for almost a century. The subterfuge at hand involves the artificial construction of a tableau photograph by moving and arranging a rifle and dead body from its original place.
April 30, 2009
CEC performs the ultimate love quadrangle farce
Audience members will be the only ones who know exactly who’s sleeping with whom in Columbia Entertainment Company’s production of Marc Camoletti’s Don’t Dress for Dinner, and that’s only if they can keep up.
Columbia’s North Village hosts first-time artists’ market
Larry L’Hote digs through Dumpsters and looks for that perfect piece of scrap metal to add to his collection. Back at his studio, he throws the metal alongside some hangers he found at a recent garage sale. He ponders ways in which he can use his new treasures until an idea comes to him. L’Hote makes metal and wood sculptures in the most environmentally friendly way, with scraps that people around Columbia discard. His work will be shown at the North Village Artists Market on May 9 along with the work of about 22 other local artists.
April 23, 2009
Some Columbians stick to darkrooms in the wake of the digital revolution
Fumbling in a darkened room and staring at dim lights while taking breaks to play with chemicals might seem like the labor of a mad scientist. For some local photographers, it’s the perfect way to make the perfect picture. Many shooters still stick to the tried-and-true method of a darkroom and patience, even after digital has taken over the mainstream. The mystique and quality of a darkroom print is worth the effort.
April 16, 2009
Stephens designers unleash a circus on the runway
This circus doesn’t have elephants, trapeze artists or fortunetellers. Instead, it’s a menagerie of fabrics, prints and threads. Student designers will have the chance to showcase their sewing skills as Stephens College hosts “Avant Cirque,” its 65th annual fashion show.
April 09, 2009
The theater is aLIVE with the sound of music
April 02, 2009
MU’s theatre department explores the ancient question
Women want sensitive but macho men. Women want men who work but also take care of the kids. Women want men who cook dinner and wash the dishes too. These paradoxes have caused men to ask themselves, “What do women really want?” Women continue to have absurd standards, and men rarely find the answer.
March 26, 2009
A journey through musical decades
Imagine it’s pre-MTV, video has yet to kill the radio star, and the MP3 hasn’t destroyed the craft of the album cover. This was an era when people entered record stores bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and were excited to see what new creations covered the albums of their favorite musicians — at least that’s what we’ve heard.
March 19, 2009
In the art world, only the strong survive
Change. Sam Cooke and David Bowie sang about it. Barack Obama rode the symbolic word all the way to the White House. But Charles Darwin was the first person to give the word meaning.
March 12, 2009
Picasso and Einstein entertain with brainy banter over brews
Drunken slurs, raunchy talk and four-letter words tend to fill the conversations overheard in a bar, but usually these conversations aren’t between two highly intelligent, extremely well-known fathers of their field. In the play Picasso at the Lapin Agile, written by actor Steve Martin and performed this month by the Columbia Entertainment Company, the audience gets a taste of life and laughter as young Pablo Picasso meets Albert Einstein at a bar in Paris. The play has all the comedic ingredients of any Martin dialogue.
Five things you didn’t know about Steve Martin
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