The Arts

Chinese American artist Jay Yan installed a mural made of nearly 8,000 mirrored discs in the University of Rochester’s Sloan Performing Arts Center.

A virtual conference hosted by the University’s Institute for the Performing Arts brings together artists and educators to reimagine the arts.

The work of a fondly remembered faculty member is revived in an edition that foregrounds issues of immigration and exile.

The University’s theater program presents a contemporary drama staged and filmed as a hybrid production.

Students from the Program of Movement and Dance will present a recreation of the iconic 1960s work in the city of Rochester to inspire thought about the pandemic and the power of protest.

The virtual version of the annual inspireDANCE festival welcomes everyone to learn new dance styles for free from top choreographers and instructors.

Writers and musicians from Marianne Moore to Patti Smith are the subject of Longenbach’s new book The Lyric Now.

The cast of 'The Government Inspector' includes more than 50 students and alumni across the United States, and as far away as Guatemala and China.

English professor Bette London introduces students to Nobel-winning authors and the controversies surrounding the prize.

University campuses look and feel different this fall, but as we continue to social distance and limit the capacity of large spaces, Rochester musicians have found ways to stay connected with their audiences.

The gift establishes the Arthur Satz Department of Music and will fund a minimum of five professorships in the humanities within the School of Arts & Sciences.

Where traces of a once vibrant artistic residency program still stand, University art professor Allen Topolski and his artist daughter, Aster, seek to understand the present through what came before.