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This week, exhibits commemorating people who have died are all around. They were created through an initiative launched by the University of Louisville with nine cultural groups. Elizabeth Kramer reported on it today and talked to Mary Carothers, a U of L assistant professor of fine art who led the class that created an installation on a outside wall of the 21C Museum Hotel. Here’s her interview with Carothers at the site of the piece.
This post comes to us from WFPL arts and humanities reporter Elizabeth Kramer.
Last night, the Speed Art Museum announced its choice of landscape architects to work on its expansion project. And it made other solid strides towards that goal.
The most immediately tangible? Well, last night the museum whetted viewers’ appetites with the opening of its refashioned second floor galleries. There’s brighter paint on the walls as well as lighting that gives the eye a clearer view onto the many art works now on display there. Museum director Charles Venable and chief curator Ruth Cloudman led the staff in choosing and hanging the combinations of works grouped in the various rooms. The most notable change is the way the arrangement showcases modern art from the museum’s permanent collection (some of which used to hang in the room just after the entrance, which seems more like a corridor than an actual room in which to view work). Venable says the museum will later hang more works in what is now the sculpture garden area; and he and the staff have given that project a jumpstart by now featuring some of the museum’s works there by Robert Rauschenberg, which Venable says were in storage.
All of this movement shows the dance towards the expansion of the museum, whose original building opened in 1927, is well underway. Venable even showed some preliminary views (he called them “conceptual drawings”) of what the place could look like when the expansion is done (the museum plans to break ground next year and finish construction by 2014). The main features will be a new lobby, more exhibition space, an ample area for education programs; a piazza with a café and museum shop; and a new auditorium. At points throughout, Venable says the interior will have views to the exterior and vice versa. There also will be more natural light inside — which will include sunshine streaming in from skylights that have been covered in recent years but that were originally installed in the 1927 building and the addition built in 1983. He says he hopes to unveil the final architectural plans in about six months.
The museum also seems to have captured more than attention with the expansion. Last night, Venable says the museum had raised more money in the last fiscal year than any other in its history.
Here’s what we reported on today:
From the New York Times:
Washington Monthly has recently released its new college ranking. It’s based on several factors, one of which is a comparison between a college’s graduation rate and the makeup of its student body.
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Toward the bottom of the ranking, the University of Louisville has an expected graduation rate of 59 percent and an actual rate of 44 percent. The University of Massachusetts, Boston, has an expected rate of 46 percent and an actual rate of 33 percent.
Here is your holiday news:
Here’s what we reported on today:
- U of L Establishes Oncology Social Work Chair
- Billy Reed Says Pitino Should Take Leave of Absence
- JCPS Bus Routes Still Being Revised
- Potential Sewer Collapse Closes E. Broadway Lanes
- State Revenue Forecasters Predict Further Decline
- Legislator Preparing Autism Insurance Bill
- Kennedy Center Head Advises Kentucky Arts Groups
- Ramsey To Meet With AD On Pitino Disclosure
- Jobs in the Green Energy Economy
Here’s what we reported on today:
- Library Reopening Delayed Until After Labor Day
- Dumps Available For Flood-Damaged Waste
- Flood Damages Iroquois Park Amphitheatre
- Some U Of L Buildings May Not Be Ready For Fall
- Kentucky Stamp Unveiled
- Arrests Made After Back-to-School Show, Concert
- Metro Animal Services Moving Animals Back to Manslick Location
- Abramson Begins Applying For Federal Relief
We’ve got a smattering of news on the storm and other topics for you:
- New Education Commissioner Starts Work
- U Of L Damaged, Closed Wednesday
- Legislative Committee Considers Roadside Memorial Regulation
- Judge Denies Injunction Request in Student Assignment Case
- Flash Flooding Still A Risk
- Library Damage At Least $1 Million
- Flooding Puts Army Corps of Engineers on Alert
- Torrential Rains Cause Widespread Flooding In Louisville
But now, after the flood, let us rejoice and sing and dance and ring in the new:
Here’s what we reported on today:
- Louisville Antique Mall To Close
- Kentucky House And Senate Must Reconcile Budget Plans
- Senate Panel Rejects Slots Bill
- Healthy Start Gets Continued Funding
- U of L Gets NIH Award For Autism Study
- Churchill Offers Mea Culpa After Shaky Night Racing Start
- Funeral Saturday For Former Councilman George Melton
- Hiring Begins For Census Jobs In Jeffersonville
- Horse Industry Reps Call For Slots Bill Approval
- SUP Continues Fight For Breslin
- KY Special Session To Resume; Williams Says Slots Bill Dead
- Indiana Preparing Hunting Database
- Final Budget Hearings Begin
- Southern Baptist Convention In Town This Week
