Princeton University, USA - Princeton is exploring Toni Morrison’s creative process with an abundance of exhibitions and events

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Princeton is exploring Toni Morrison’s creative process with an abundance of exhibitions and events

 

Published:

Princeton University Library, 24 January 2023

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2023/01/24/princeton-will-explore-toni-morrisons-creative-process-abundance-exhibitions-and

 

From the news article:

Princeton University Library (PUL) is presenting a revelatory exhibition, “Toni Morrison: Sites of Memory,” excavating the creative process of writer and former Princeton University Professor and 1993 Nobel laureate Toni Morrison.

 

University of Cape Town, South Africa (October 2022) - ‘The Cult of Ugliness’ opens at the UCT Irma Stern Museum

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‘The Cult of Ugliness’ opens at the UCT Irma Stern Museum 

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University of Cape Town, 6 October 2022

https://www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-2022-10-06-the-cult-of-ugliness-opens-at-the-uct-irma-stern-museum

From the news article:

Almost 100 years ago, just after the now-famous South African Modernist artist Irma Stern’s (1894 – 1966) first exhibition in Cape Town, a review in the local press appeared under the headline “Freak Picture Exhibition, the Art of Miss Irma Stern – Ugliness as a Cult”. The article stated in relation to Stern’s work that “where there is deliberate carelessness in form, there is not likely to be much thought … nothing except ugliness”.

 

University of Bern, Switzerland - When art conveys science - a nature trail and art exhibition called "Vitaport"

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When art conveys science

Author:

Katharina Wecker

Published:

University of Bern, 12 August 2022

https://www.uniaktuell.unibe.ch/2022/when_art_conveys_science/index_eng.html

From the online magazine of the University of Bern:

Researchers from the University of Bern, with students from the School of Visual Arts Bern and Biel, have created a nature trail called "Vitaport" which is open to the public and is about transport routes in the body. As a way of communicating science, art and design have a lot of potential, think scientist Valentina Rossetti and designer Juliane Wolski.