
As this year’s Art in Bloom poster indicates, art has long celebrated the beauties (and sometimes the terrors) of the natural world. ...

As the Museum of Art & Archaeology’s current exhibition entitled “The Sacred Feminine: Prehistory to Postmodernity” clearly reveals, images of women such as Aphrodite/Venus can exert considerable power over their captivated viewers. Chec...

Pennsylvania officials have announced plans to add a tax to arts organizations and cultural performances–but not movies or sporting events. Arts organizations are already struggling in a weak economy, affecting donations, grants and revenues based on attendance. Now this. ...

“All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that God sent into the human body.” -Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) The Chants of Hildegard von Bingen will be performed by Margaret Waddell [www.hummingbirdmusic.net] on Friday, September 25, 2009 at 7:00pm in the Jes...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of my role as Academic Coordinator for the Museum of Art & Archaeology involves interacting with Museum visitors from all over the world about virtually any piece of the human mosaic. One such piece that turns up regularly is that of wine...

This morning on my way to the Museum, my view of the Museum changed when I met landscape photographer Peter Haigh taking pictures in front of the Museum...

On Thursday, August 20 @ 7pm in Pickard Hall Auditorium, the Museum of Art & Archaeology Film Series will present “The Life and Times of Andy Warhol: Superstar” (1990) in conjunction with the Museum’s focus exhibition, “Faces of Warhol.” The film is co-sponsored by the Museum Advisory Council o...

The Museum of Art & Archaeology sponsored the first Preservation Symposium on Friday, May 21, 2009 in the seminar room of the MU Department of Art History and Archaeology...

Masked and hidden ‘neath the vale, appearing when the time was right, spirits of a life he little knew, an Avalon so bright and true, K...

a response to Dido in Resolve The ships have already set sail For the endless horizon on world’s edge, T...

Cracked Krater Whose hands crafted your now broken beauty? Beauty unforeseen and shattered Was your finale fractured by the very fingers that made thee? Bakers beating violently their batter? Sed ecce...

The Divine Suicide (from the portrait Dido in Resolve) The calm sky is bright, bright as the soul of my beloved as he gazed at me, bright as the inferno devouring his memory. And as the sun’s scorching light, s...

The Adventures in Education Fair is part of Graduate Education Week, which takes place throughout the State of Missouri. The Fair itself is an opportunity for departments from all over campus to set up a booth that represents their research, projects, and what they study...












